Systems Inventory Manager 1.5 Installation Guide

Install SIM 1.5
Install DMI on Client Servers
Chapter 3
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Install DMI on Client Servers
This section describes how to install the Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
component on client servers. DMI is used as the inventory data collection and
communication mechanism between client servers and SIM.
It is highly recommended that you install the latest version of DMI on each client server
from which you intend to collect inventory data.
The latest versions for each HP-UX version are:
11.00 - B.11.00.39
11i v1 (B.11.11) - B.11.11.39
11i v2 (B.11.23) - B.11.23.39
Software Location The DMI software is contained in the SysInvMgr bundle previously downloaded or can
be obtained from the HP Software Depot at:
http://software.hp.com/products/SIM/
Install DMI To install the DMI component on client servers:
1. Obtain the appropriate DMI depot for the client server operating system.
2. The client server installation of DMI is simplified if it has the same version of
operating system as the server on which you installed SIM. If this is the case, the
depot created when you downloaded from the software depot contains the correct
version of DMI.
You can simply execute swinstall, using the depot that you created, specifying DMI
as the software selection.
For example:
/usr/sbin/swinstall -s /[
depot directory
] DMI