HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UXHP Part Number: 418810-005 Published: April 2009 Edition: 5.3.1

• Free disk space:

20 MB for CMS (/)•

• 600 MB for the CMS and DTF agent (/opt)

• 500 MB minimum recommended for data (/var/opt)

• Swap space:

3 GB minimum total swap space for PA-RISC systems•

• 4 GB minimum total swap space for Intel® Itanium®-based systems

Software

• OpenSSH installed

• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX, installed and active

• (Optional) Oracle 9i release 2

• (Optional) Oracle 10g version 10.2.0.1 or later

NOTE: Oracle supports 5,000 systems and 50,000 events.

• HP SIM private version of PostgresSQL (hpsmdb)

NOTE: hpsmdb supports 500 systems and 5,000 events.

• Java Out-of-Box installed (shipped as optional selectable software as part of the operating system)

Browser software:

• Firefox 2.0.0.20

• Firefox 3.0.4

Networking Properly configured and working Domain Name System (DNS).

NOTE: HP Integrity VMs do not support running an application at the same level as the host.

NOTE: If running OpenView NNM or OpenView Operations on the same system, the SNMP trap listening

port must be changed in those products to function properly. Refer to the OpenView product documentation

in the

Integrating HP SIM 5.0 with HP OpenView Select Access

white paper at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/

products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.

NOTE: Legacy Novell systems with only an IPX network enabled will not be manageable by an HP-UX

CMS. An IP-based network must be available.

NOTE: If you are using Network Information Services (NIS), ping localhost and if you receive no response,

create or edit the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and add the following entry in the file: hosts: files

dns nis. If NIS server is not in the network, do not add the nis entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

HP-UX patches

There are required patches that must be installed to run HP Systems Insight Manager. All patches should be

installed before running HP Systems Insight Manager. In particular, all patches that are required to support

the Java that HP SIM uses must be installed.

NOTE: To determine the Java version installed, execute:

/opt/mx/j2re/bin/java –version

Currently, the product is shipped with Java 1.5 (or Java 5.0) Runtime Environment.

NOTE: For more information about java patches, go to http://www.hp.com/go/java, and select Patches

from the Site information. This site determines the recommended patches for the Java application. Follow

16 Installation overview and requirements