Installation Manual

HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 Installation Guide 15
the Storage Essentials installation files—(the HP SIM Connector) provides the integration between
Storage Essentials and HP SIM.
The Storage Essentials installation wizard automatically installs the HP SIM Connector on the
Storage Essentials server (along with the other software components described later). When
Storage Essentials is installed in the separate server configuration, the Storage Essentials
installation wizard additionally installs the HP SIM Connector on the separate HP SIM server via a
network connection to provide communication between HP SIM and Storage Essentials on separate
servers.
As a best practice, HP recommends installing HP Storage Essentials as a plug-in for HP Systems
Insight Manager (the integrated version of Storage Essentials). The integrated version of HP SIM
and Storage Essentials provides the following feature sets:
• Hardware and software health status polling, monitoring, and event management for:
•Storage
•Servers
•Switches
• Infrastructure
• And other elements on your network such as enclosures, racks, clients and printers
• HP SIM provides standards-based support for HP and third-party devices and management
frameworks.
• When Storage Essentials is integrated with HP SIM, you access the Storage Essentials features
and menu options via Storage Essentials menu items on the HP SIM menus and within various
HP SIM screens.
The integrated version of HP Storage Essentials and HP Systems Insight Manager includes the
following software components:
• HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 SP1
(HP SIM 5.2 is also supported. Contact your Sales Engineer to determine which version of HP
SIM is best for your environment. This installation guide provides instructions for installing HP
SIM 5.1, the version included with your Storage Essentials 6.0 product kit.)
• Storage Essentials 6.0
• HP SIM Connector 6.0
(included in the Storage Essentials installation files and automatically installed by the Storage
Essentials installation wizard)
• Oracle 10g Standard Edition for Storage Essentials 6.0
(automatically installed by the Storage Essentials installation wizard)
• CIM Extension files (6.0)—Common Information Module files that you install on the hosts and
other network elements you want to manage and for which you want to automate discovery.
• CIM Extension Management tool for installing some of the supported CIM extensions in batch
mode, remotely, onto multiple hosts.