HP Insight Dynamics 6.2 Integrity CMS Installation and Configuration Guide

Install Insight Dynamics agent software and configure managed systems
Managed systems require some setup before Insight Dynamics can properly identify them,
retrieve data from them, and perform management operations on them. Managed system setup
includes the installation of agent software or configuration of agentless data collection, installation
of licenses, and configuration of options specific to the management capabilities intended for
use on the system. All of these steps are performed by the Insight managed system setup wizard.
In some cases, you may prefer to manually install agents or other required software, such as
WBEM or SSH, instead of allowing the managed system setup wizard to install the latest version
(the wizard will only update existing versions if the existing version is not supported by Insight
Dynamics). For information about manual installation of agent software, see “Alternate procedure
for manual installation of agent software” (page 21).
IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading an existing version of the gWLM agent, you must upgrade
the gWLM agent on all systems in an SRD at the same time. You cannot run different versions
of the gWLM agent within a single SRD.
Using managed system setup wizard
To start the managed system setup wizard, select Configure→Managed System Setup Wizard...
from the HP SIM top menu. Help is available in each step of the wizard. See also Insight Managed
System Setup Wizard 6.2 Getting Started Guide.
IMPORTANT: Before running managed system setup wizard the target managed systems must
be fully discovered and should have valid credentials stored within HP SIM. You can discover
systems using the HP SIM Discovery page. To access this page select Options→Discovery...
from the HP SIM top menu.
Privilege elevation
Some tools in HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) are defined to run as root on HP-UX, Linux,
and VMware ESX managed systems. However, root logins are not allowed in many customer
environments. Instead, administrators may be required to use an individual login which is
authorized to acquire root permissions as needed (for example, using su or sudo). In this case,
you can configure privilege elevation in HP SIM. This feature allows you to specify a non-root
login on managed systems and a command that can be used to acquire root privileges as needed.
Privilege elevation can be configured in HP SIM as part of the First Time Wizard or by selecting
Options→Security→Privilege Elevation... from the HP SIM top menu. You will need to
configure the selected user login on the managed system. Additional configuration may also be
needed. For example, you may need to configure SSH access using Configure→Configure or
Repair Agents..., and you may need to configure the managed system to allow host authentication
for non-root users. For more information, see the HP SIM help.
Alternate procedure for manual installation of agent software
Agent software can be found in the depots and installation packages that are installed in the
depot directory on the CMS. On an HP-UX CMS, this directory is /var/opt/vse/depot. On
a Windows CMS the directory is install-path\depot, where install-path is the directory
where Insight Dynamics is installed (by default, this directory is C:\Program Files\HP\
Virtual Server Environment). Use the following procedures to manually install the agent
software.
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