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

1 Installation overview and requirements
This chapter provides an overview of the Systems Insight Manager installation process, and it identifies the
system requirements for a Windows CMS, a managed system, and a network client.
First time install process overview
Perform these steps for a first time install of Systems Insight Manager on your Central Management Server:
1. Install and configure the Central Management Server. The procedure to complete this step is in the
installation chapter of this guide. See Chapter 2 “Installing Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for
the first time” for details.
2. Configure Systems Insight Manager for your environment. See “Configuring Systems Insight Manager
using the First Time Wizard” or “Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu” for the
recommended tasks.
3. Install and configure the required Management Agents on the systems that will be managed by the
Central Management Server. This step is covered in the first section of Chapter 4 “Setting up and
configuring managed systems”.
4. Configure the remaining protocols for the managed systems. See Chapter 4 “Setting up and configuring
managed systems” for details.
Upgrade overview
If Systems Insight Manager is installed on your Central Management Server, see the upgrade instructions in
Chapter 6 “Upgrading Systems Insight Manager”.
System requirements
This section identifies the hardware and software requirements and recommendations for Systems Insight
Manager. These requirements are broken into sections for the CMS, managed system, and network client.
Windows Central Management Server
This section contains the minimum requirements for the Windows operating system that is used for the CMS.
Operating systems
• Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2
• Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition SP2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP2
• Windows Small Business Server 2008
• Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP2
• Windows Web Server 2008
• Windows Web Server 2008 SP2
• Windows Small Business Server 2003 SP2
• Windows Vista Business and Enterprise
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