HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.1 Administrator Guide (web) (TB581-96050, May 2011)

Required programDescriptionHost type
• Device Manager server
• vMA
A physical environment in which vir-
tualization software is installed
#2
Virtual machine
• Device Manager server
• P9000 mainframe agent
Computers that use mainframe
volumes
Mainframe hosts
#1:
This program is required if you want to manage copy pairs or if you want to use Device Manager
to manage hosts (OSs) whose volume usage cannot be acquired by Host Data Collector.
#2:
A physical environment in which Windows Server® (Hyper-V™) is installed is treated as a normal
host by Device Manager.
System requirements for normal hosts
This section describes the system requirements for normal hosts.
Environment settings on normal hosts (when using Host Data Collector to manage normal
hosts)
Before registering a normal host in Device Manager, the host must be in the following state.
When the OS of a normal host to be managed is Windows
• If Host Data Collector is installed on a Windows computer, from the Computer Management
window of Windows, a user with Administrator permissions is assigned as a user who can execute
the Host Data Collector service (Host Data Collector), so that normal hosts can be communicated
with via the WMI protocol.
• admin$ is shared over the network.
• In the Windows Firewall settings, File and Printer Sharing is registered as an exception.
When the OS of a normal host to be managed is UNIX (when information about the host is collected by using
the root account)
• SSH is enabled.
• Settings have been performed so that you can log in as root via a remote SSH login with password
authentication.
When the OS of a normal host to be managed is UNIX (when information about the host is collected by using
a general user account)
• SSH is enabled.
• The user account used when the host is detected has been created specifically for Host Data Col-
lector (recommended).
• Settings have been specified in the PATH environment variable so that the sudo command can
be executed.
• Update permissions (rwx) are set for the /tmp directory.
• Settings have been specified in the /etc/sudoers file so that the sudo command can be executed
by using either the password of a general user or without entering any password.
Administrator Guide (Web Version) 33