Systems Inventory Manager 1.5 Installation Guide

Prepare for SIM Installation or Upgrade

System Requirements

Chapter 1

System Requirements

To ensure that the SIM Web application operates successfully on your machine, be sure

that you meet all of the system requirements described in this section.

Operating System HP-UX 11.00, 11i v1 (B.11.11) or 11i v2 (B.11.23) is required. You can determine the

release id of the operating system running on your system with the uname -a command.

Required Software The following versions of software must be currently installed on your system:

• Tomcat version 4.1.12 or greater for HP-UX 11.00 and 11i v1 (B.11.11)

HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine version 1.0.03.01 for HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)

• Java SDK 1.4

If either of these software packages are not installed, they can be installed during the

SIM installation.

Required Patches There are no patches currently required for the SIM Web application.

DMI is included in the SysInvMgr bundle. There are patches that it requires when

running on HP-UX 11.00. Refer to the DMI README file for more information.

Patches may exist for the software referenced in the Required Software section. Refer to

the Web sites for each product to ensure that all patches are obtained and installed on

your system.

Storage

Requirements

The SIM Web application requires 35 MB of free disk space. The associated database

and logging files (/var) require an additional 1 GB of free disk space.

NOTE If you are upgrading from SIM 1.0, you will need 2 GB instead of 1 GB of free disk space

in the /var directory. The second gigabyte is required for a backup file only during the

upgrade process. This space will be released once SIM 1.5 is installed.

The database is created during installation, so its size requirement is not included in the

swinstall disk space analysis. This must be manually verified by you before

starting the installation process.

Tuning The default HP-UX configuration does not support certain types of Java applications

adequately. The Java Out-Of-Box Tool for HP-UX should be installed to configure kernel

parameters to improve the performance and behavior of the Java application. You can

find more information regarding the Java Out-Of-Box Tool and downloaded it at:

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/java2/outofbox/index.html

More information about the kernel parameters that are changed is available at this Web

site.

IMPORTANT Because the kernel is being modified, you should backup your system prior to installing

the bundle.