Operating Environment Software Instruction Manual

Manually enabling federated CMS in new installations
Federated CMS is enabled by default in new installations. However, during the installation
procedure, if the CMS IP address is not resolved to the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN),
one of the following errors is displayed:
Failed to enable HP Insight Orchestration Federated mode.
HP Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration was successfully installed but the federated CMS feature was not
enabled.
If you performed a new installation of Insight Management, and federated CMS was not successfully
enabled during the installation, perform the following steps to configure a federated CMS
environment.
WARNING! Do not manually enable federated CMS if you are upgrading to Insight Management
7.1 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 7.1.
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 hostnames
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
hostname.
a. On a Windows system, edit Computer Properties (Change Settings)
b. Change the Computer Name
c. Click the More button
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 follow instructions.
c. On the primary CMS, in Systems Insight Manager, open a prompt dialog and enter:
ioexec add cms –C <CMS-primary-name-specified-in-previous-step>
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 7.1 installation
20 Installation and configuration