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

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Table of Contents

1 Product overview........................................................................................8

Product architecture.................................................................................................................................8

Central management server.................................................................................................................8

Managed systems..............................................................................................................................8

Web-browser clients...........................................................................................................................8

Default toolboxes....................................................................................................................................8

Toolboxes.........................................................................................................................................9

Tools................................................................................................................................................9

User security...........................................................................................................................................9

Authorizations........................................................................................................................................9

CMS user configuration rights.................................................................................................................10

Information storage...............................................................................................................................10

HP SIM audit log.............................................................................................................................10

Database........................................................................................................................................10

Database software......................................................................................................................11

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

HP-UX Central Management Server....................................................................................................15

HP-UX patches............................................................................................................................16

Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches................................................................16

Managed system requirements and recommendations...........................................................................16

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.....................................................................................................23

Tuning HP SIM (Optional) .....................................................................................................................25

Next steps............................................................................................................................................25

4 Setting up managed systems .....................................................................27

Installing the required software on an HP-UX system...................................................................................27

Setting up managed storage systems.......................................................................................................28

Installing SMI-S providers.......................................................................................................................28

Verifying SSL........................................................................................................................................28

Configuring SMI-S providers...................................................................................................................28

5 Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard...........................................29

Using the First Time Wizard....................................................................................................................29

Configuring the managed environment....................................................................................................30

Enabling automatic system discovery.......................................................................................................30

Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials.................................................................31

Configuring managed systems................................................................................................................31

Configuring the WMI Mapper Proxy........................................................................................................32

Configuring privilege elevation...............................................................................................................32

Configuring e-mail settings.....................................................................................................................32

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