HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

1 Installation overview and requirements
This chapter provides an overview of the HP Systems Insight Manager installation process, and it
identifies the system requirements for a Linux CMS, a managed system, and a network client.
First time install process overview
Perform these steps for a first time install of HP Systems Insight Manager on your CMS:
1. Install and configure the CMS. For details, 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. For more information, see “Setting up managed systems” (page 28).
3. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. For more information, see
“Configuring Systems Insight Manager” (page 30).
Upgrade overview
If Systems Insight Manager has previously been installed on your CMS proceed to the upgrade
instructions in “Upgrading from Systems Insight Manager” (page 35).
System requirements
This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for Systems
Insight Manager. These requirements are broken into sections by the CMS, managed system, and
network client.
Part 1: Linux Central Management Server
Operating systems
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 AMD64/EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86, Update 6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD64/EM64T, Update 6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86, Update 5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD64/EM64T, Update 5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86, Update 4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD64/EM64T, Update 4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86, Update 8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD64/EM64T, Update 8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86 Update 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD64/EM64T, Update 7
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 x86, SP1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 AMD64/EM64T, SP1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 x86
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 AMD64/EM64T
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 x86, SP3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 AMD64/EM64T, SP3
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