HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

Table of Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................6
First time install process overview..............................................................................................................6
Upgrade overview...................................................................................................................................6
System requirements................................................................................................................................6
Windows Central Management Server.................................................................................................6
Systems Insight Manager Windows Virtual Machine support...................................................................9
Managed system requirements and recommendations...........................................................................10
Managed storage system..................................................................................................................15
SSH requirements.............................................................................................................................15
Foreign language support.................................................................................................................15
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP Insight Control requirements.......................................................15
System support................................................................................................................................15
Hardware support............................................................................................................................16
2 Installing Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.....................20
Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................20
Typical install........................................................................................................................................26
Custom install.......................................................................................................................................29
Silent install..........................................................................................................................................36
Next steps............................................................................................................................................38
3 Configuring Systems Insight Manager.........................................................40
Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard...............................................................40
Operating-system-specific collections...................................................................................................41
Operating-system-specific reports.......................................................................................................42
Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu....................................................................42
4 Setting up and configuring managed systems...............................................44
Overview.............................................................................................................................................44
Setting up managed systems using the Systems Insight Manager interface....................................................44
Setting up managed storage systems.......................................................................................................44
Installing SMI-S providers..................................................................................................................45
Verifying SSL...................................................................................................................................45
Configuring SMI-S providers..............................................................................................................45
Configuring Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems..........................................................45
5 Initializing the Remote Support Software Manager........................................46
Device and access requirements..............................................................................................................46
Remote Support Software Manager Installation Process..............................................................................47
6 Upgrading Systems Insight Manager...........................................................48
Typical upgrade....................................................................................................................................52
Custom upgrade...................................................................................................................................53
Silent upgrade......................................................................................................................................58
Data migration.....................................................................................................................................60
Exporting data from a CMS..............................................................................................................60
Importing data from a CMS..............................................................................................................60
Post migration steps..........................................................................................................................61
Next steps......................................................................................................................................62
7 Uninstalling Systems Insight Manager..........................................................63
8 Configuration options................................................................................64
CPU utilization during data collection......................................................................................................64
Overview........................................................................................................................................64
Implementation................................................................................................................................64
GUI time-out policy...............................................................................................................................64
Overview........................................................................................................................................64
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