HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

Contents
1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................5
First time install process overview................................................................................................5
Upgrade overview....................................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................5
Part 1: Windows Central Management Server..........................................................................5
Systems Insight Manager Windows Virtual Machine support.....................................................8
Part 2: Managed system requirements and recommendations.....................................................8
Managed storage system....................................................................................................15
SSH requirements...............................................................................................................15
Foreign language support...................................................................................................16
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager requirements......................................................................16
System support..................................................................................................................16
Hardware support..............................................................................................................16
2 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager on the CMS for the first time.................21
Preparing the system...............................................................................................................21
Typical install.........................................................................................................................26
Next steps.............................................................................................................................29
3 Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................32
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager using the First Time Wizard............................................32
Operating-system-specific collections.....................................................................................33
Operating-system-specific reports.........................................................................................34
Configuring Systems Insight Manager using the Options menu......................................................34
4 Setting up and configuring managed systems...............................................36
Overview..............................................................................................................................36
Setting up managed systems using the HP Systems Insight Manager interface.................................36
Setting up managed storage systems.........................................................................................37
Installing SMI-S providers....................................................................................................37
Verifying SSL.....................................................................................................................37
Configuring SMI-S providers................................................................................................37
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems........................................38
5 Installing HP Insight Remote Support Advanced............................................39
Device and access requirements...............................................................................................39
HP Insight Remote Support Advanced installation process............................................................40
6 Upgrading HP Systems Insight Manager......................................................41
Typical upgrade.....................................................................................................................45
Custom upgrade.....................................................................................................................46
Silent upgrade.......................................................................................................................46
Data migration.......................................................................................................................48
Exporting data from a CMS................................................................................................48
Importing data from a CMS................................................................................................49
Post migration steps............................................................................................................50
Next steps........................................................................................................................51
7 Uninstalling HP Systems Insight Manager.....................................................52
8 Configuration options................................................................................53
CPU utilization during data collection........................................................................................53
Overview..........................................................................................................................53
Implementation..................................................................................................................53
GUI time-out policy.................................................................................................................53
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