Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

requirements and the CPU and Memory resources allocated to this VM must be always available to this VM

(by reserving CPU and Memory resources).

NOTE: Installing an HP SIM CMS on Linux Itanium Processor Family (IPF) is not supported. If you see the

following error message, it is because you are attempting to manually install on an unsupported IPF system:

• error: %pre(hpsim-C.05.02.00.00-1.i386) sciptlet failed, exit status 255

• error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hpsim-C.05.02.00.00-1

Hardware

• Any HP IA-32 AMD64 or EM64T system with the following configuration:

Minimum: 1.5-GHz processor and 1 GB RAM•

• Recommended: 2.4-GHz processor and 2 GB RAM

• Any HP system with Oracle 9i installed minimum 4 GB RAM

• Free disk space:

2 MB for CMS (/)•

• 400 MB for the CMS and DTF agent (/opt)

• 500 MB minimum recommended for data (/var/opt)

• Swap space:

• 3 GB minimum total swap space for Itanium-based systems

Software

• General:

OpenSSH version 1.0 or later•

• ProLiant Support Pack for Linux 7.00 or later

• (Optional) Oracle 9i release 2

• Oracle 10g R2 (10.2.0.3) or later

NOTE: Oracle supports up to 5,000 systems and 50,000 events.

NOTE: You must install the Oracle JDBC driver, version 10.2.0.4. You can download this driver

from the Oracle website at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.html.

NOTE: The Oracle database must be created with Unicode character set of AL32UTF8 and

national character set of AL16UTF16 before installing HP SIM. The NLS Length must be set to

BYTE. You must also specify the thin client .jar file location. HP SIM requires Oracle database and

Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) listener services to be up and running when system is restarted.

Oracle by itself does not start the Oracle database and TNS listener automatically. An Oracle

database administrator (DBA) must set these services to be restarted when the server is reset. See

the Oracle documentation for details on how to auto start these services at

http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/A96167_01/post-inst.htm#sthref548. Access to this

link requires registration, which is free. The Oracle DBA who manages the Oracle installation

must perform this task.

• PostgresSQL 8.2.1 (hpsmdb)

NOTE: The hpsmdb version supports up to 500 systems and 5,000 events.

• Browser software:

• Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 or later

Networking

• Static or dynamic host name resolution

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