HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

2 Installation overview and requirements
This chapter provides an overview of the HP SIM installation process, and it identifies the system requirements
for a HP-UX CMS, a managed system, and a network client.
First time install process overview
Perform these steps for a first time install of HP SIM on your CMS:
1. Install and configure the CMS. The procedure to complete this step is in the installation chapter of this
guide. See "Chapter 3 “Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time”" for details.
2. Install and configure the required management software on the systems that will be managed by the
CMS. For more information on this step, see "Chapter 4 “Setting up managed systems ”" for details.
3. Configure HP SIM for your environment. See chapter "Chapter 5 “Configuring HP SIM using the First
Time Wizard”" or "Chapter 6 “Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu”" for the recommended
tasks.
4. Configure the remaining protocols for the managed systems. See "Chapter 7 “Configuring managed
systems”" for details.
Upgrade overview
If HP SIM is installed on your CMS see the upgrade instructions in "Chapter 8 “Upgrading HP Systems Insight
Manager 5.x or later ” for details.
System requirements
This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for HP Systems Insight
Manager. These requirements are broken into sections for the CMS, managed system, and network client.
HP-UX Central Management Server
This section contains the requirements for the operating system that is used for the HP-UX CMS.
NetworkingSoftwareHardwareOperating system
▲ Properly configured and
working Domain Name
System (DNS)
Any HP system (PA-RISC 2.0 or
Integrity) server with a minimum
of 2 GB RAM (3 GB for HP-UX
11i v3)
•• OpenSSH installedHP-UX 11i (11.11)
• •HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2
(11.23 IA/PA)
HP WBEM Services for
HP-UX, installed and active
•• (Optional) Oracle 9i release
2
HP-UX 11i V3
Any HP system with Oracle
installed with a minimum of 4
GB RAM
• Integrity Virtual Machine
running guest with HP-UX
11i v2
• (Optional) Oracle 10g
version 10.2.0.1 or later
NOTE: Oracle supports
5,000 systems and 50,000
events.
free disk space
• Integrity Virtual Machine
running guest with HP-UX
11i v3
• 20 MB for CMS (/)
• 600 MB for the CMS and
DTF agent (/opt)
NOTE: The HP SIM CMS
cannot run on an HPVM host.
NOTE: The required patches
must be installed for each of
• HP SIM private version of
PostgresSQL (hpsmdb)
NOTE: hpsmdb supports
500 systems and 5,000
events.
• 500 MB minimum
recommended for data
(/var/opt)
swap space
these operating systems. Refer
to “HP-UX patches” for more
information.
• 3 GB minimum total swap
space for PA-RISC systems
• Java Out-of-Box installed
(shipped as optional
• 4 GB minimum total swap
space for Intel®
Itanium®-based systems
selectable software as part
of the operating system)
• Firefox 2.0.0.12
• Firefox 3.0.4
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
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