HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 and 7.3 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

If you performed a new installation of Insight Management, and if federated CMS was not
successfully enabled during the installation, configure a federated CMS environment.
WARNING! Do not manually enable federated CMS if you are upgrading to Insight Management
7.3 or 7.3.1 from an earlier release. If your environment contains existing infrastructure orchestration
services, enabling federated CMS after an upgrade will cause these existing services to fail.
Contact HP for information about enabling federated CMS after an upgrade to 7.3 or 7.3.1.
1. Set up and verify DNS on primary CMS and secondary CMSs.
In a federated environment, Domain Name Service (DNS) is used to resolve CMS host names
to IP addresses.
• On the primary CMS, forward and reverse DNS lookups must resolve for each secondary
CMS using the FQDN of each system.
• If the primary CMS is configured with a static IP address, configure the DNS suffix in the
host name.
a. On a Windows system, edit Computer Properties (Change Settings).
b. Change the Computer Name.
c. Click More.
d. Include the primary DNS suffix.
By default, the primary DNS suffix of a computer's FQDN is the same as the Active
Directory domain to which the computer is joined.
e. Save and restart the machine.
2. Enable federated CMS in the hpio.properties file:
a. On the primary CMS, in Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\HP\
Matrix infrastructure orchestration\conf.
b. Edit hpio.properties
c. Change the federated.io property to federated.io=true and save the file.
3. Configure the Systems Insight Manager federated CMS list on the primary CMS.
a. On the primary CMS, in Systems Insight Manager, select Options→Federated CMS
Configuration….
The list of CMSs in the federation is displayed.
b. If the primary CMS is not listed as part of the federation, add it by clicking Add CMS…,
and then follow the instructions.
4. Restart the infrastructure orchestration service.
Configuring a federation
The following steps are required to configure the federated CMS environment. Perform these steps:
• After federated CMS is enabled automatically during a new Insight Management 7.3 or 7.3.1
installation
• After federated CMS is enabled manually after a new Insight Management 7.3 or 7.3.1
installation that did not successfully enable federated CMS
IMPORTANT: In a federated CMS environment, the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of
any participating CMS cannot be changed.
If the IP address of the primary CMS is changed, reconfigure the trusted list of each secondary
CMS (described in step 1 below).
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