HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

Table of Contents
1 Product overview........................................................................................8
Product architecture.................................................................................................................................8
Central management server.................................................................................................................8
Managed systems..............................................................................................................................8
Web-browser clients...........................................................................................................................8
Authorizations........................................................................................................................................8
Default toolboxes...............................................................................................................................9
User privileges...................................................................................................................................9
Tools.....................................................................................................................................................9
Information storage...............................................................................................................................10
HP SIM audit log.............................................................................................................................10
Database........................................................................................................................................10
Database software......................................................................................................................10
Secure access.......................................................................................................................................11
Command line interface...................................................................................................................11
Graphical user interface...................................................................................................................11
Secure data transmission........................................................................................................................12
Management protocols.....................................................................................................................12
Web server security.........................................................................................................................13
Self-signed certificates......................................................................................................................13
X application security.......................................................................................................................13
Managing servers behind a firewall...................................................................................................14
2 Installation overview and requirements........................................................15
First time install process overview............................................................................................................15
Upgrade overview.................................................................................................................................15
System requirements..............................................................................................................................15
Linux Central Management Server......................................................................................................15
Managed system requirements and recommendations...........................................................................16
SSH requirements.............................................................................................................................21
Foreign language support.................................................................................................................21
3 Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time..............................................22
Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................22
Installing and configuring the software.....................................................................................................24
Automatically installing HP Systems Insight Manager ...........................................................................24
Manually installing HP Systems Insight Manager..................................................................................24
After installing HP Systems Insight Manager........................................................................................26
Next steps............................................................................................................................................29
4 Setting up managed systems......................................................................31
Installing the ProLiant or Integrity Support Pack on a Linux system for the first time..........................................31
Setting up managed storage systems..................................................................................................31
Installing SMI-S providers..................................................................................................................31
Verifying SSL...................................................................................................................................31
Configuring SMI-S providers..............................................................................................................31
Configuring HP SIM to discover storage systems...................................................................................32
5 Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard...........................................33
Using the First Time Wizard....................................................................................................................33
Configuring the managed environment....................................................................................................34
Enabling automatic system discovery.......................................................................................................34
Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials.................................................................35
Configuring managed systems................................................................................................................35
Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy........................................................................................................36
Configuring privilege elevation...............................................................................................................36
Configuring e-mail settings.....................................................................................................................36
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