Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.2 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

White paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
2 | March 2013
Table of Contents
Revision history .................................................................................................................................. 6
Abstract ............................................................................................................................................... 7
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Summary of the Insight Management high availability solution.................................... 8
Using a CMS cluster as part of a federated CMS environment ....................................... 9
Components supported in a highly available environment ............................................ 9
Description of the Insight Management high availability solution ............................... 11
Getting started ................................................................................................................................. 13
Target audience .................................................................................................................... 13
Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements .......................... 13
Hardware ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 13
Software .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Storage ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14
Supporting Systems .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Network ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Cluster configuration ........................................................................................................... 16
Setting up the failover environment ............................................................................................ 17
Administrator credentials used by this white paper ...................................................... 17
Installing and configuring prerequisites on both systems ............................................ 17
Prepare for installation of the Insight Management CMS ............................................................................................................ 17
Installing Application Server Role .................................................................................................................................................... 17
Installing SNMP .................................................................................................................................................................................. 18
Setting the SNMP service community name and security ........................................................................................................... 19
Installing the Support Pack for ProLiant (SPP) or the ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) ................................................................ 19
Activating the HP Cluster MIB agents .............................................................................................................................................. 19
Matrix pre-requisites ......................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Creating the Failover Cluster .............................................................................................. 20
Changing administrator accounts ..................................................................................... 23