HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

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Perform step 2 to install and configure the required management software.
1. Install and configure the CMS. For more information, see “Installing Systems Insight Manager
on the CMS for the first time” (page 20).
2. Install and configure the required Insight Management Agents on the systems that will be
managed by the CMS.
3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. For more information, see
“Configuring Systems Insight Manager” (page 30).
Setting up managed systems involves installing the required management software. The management
software being installed depends on the type of managed system.
• Linux
• Storage systems
• Windows systems - see the HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration
Guide for Windows (http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/
infolibrary.html)
• HP-UX - see the HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for
HP-UX (http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html)
Installing the Proliant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the
first time
For Linux systems, use the Linux Deployment Utility to install the latest support pack with the
preconfigured components to the local system. For more information regarding installing a support
pack using the Linux Deployment Utility, see http://www.hp.com/servers/psp.
Setting up managed storage systems
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is a Storage Networking Industry Association
(SNIA) standard that enables interoperable management for storage networks and storage devices.
Systems Insight Manager uses this standard to discover and manage the storage systems it supports.
You must have a storage system's WBEM SMI-S provider installed and configured for Systems
Insight Manager to discover it. This includes storage devices such as Fibre Channel disk arrays,
switches, tape libraries, or hosts (with Fibre Channel host bus adapters).
Refer to the Systems Insight Manager SMI-S Provider webpage, http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim/
providers, to view the latest information regarding Systems Insight Manager support for a particular
device. This webpage offers information on obtaining, installing, and configuring SMI-S providers.
Installing SMI-S providers
Each storage vendor provides the SMI-S provider and installation instructions for its storage system.
The webpage referenced in the previous section provides information on obtaining SMI-S providers.
Also, consult the storage vendor's website or representative for more information regarding their
SMI-S providers. For each storage system:
1. Verify that the applicable SMI-S provider is installed.
2. If the SMI-S provider is not installed, obtain and install it per the vendor's installation instructions.
Verifying SSL
Systems Insight Manager requires that Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is enabled for the SMI-S provider
in order to discover and manage the storage system that the provider supports. Verify that SSL is
enabled for each SMI-S provider.
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