Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.2 on Windows Server 2003 R2 MSCS for high availability

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Set up the failover environment
At this point a two
-
system
MSCS cluster has been established and all relevant Microsoft software
updates have been a
pplied to both
system
s. Further, all the network and storage resources
described above have been provisioned and are available.
This section of the white paper assumes that you log into your cluster systems with the same
administrator credentials that you
are using to access all the Insight Software and Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 components that are being set up.
Administrator credentials used by this white paper
Review the Insight Software installation requirements listed in the
HP Insight Software 6.2 Support
Matrix
, especially the
Requirements for non
-
OS software and Supported browsers
; and review the
HP Insight Software 6.2 Preinstallation Worksheet
.
Make sure the components listed are installed
on each
system
. Installation of these component services can be verified by running the HP Insight
Software Advisor and enabling the
Pre
-
In
stall
Items option from the HP Insight Software Installer
menu.
VERY IMPORTANT
:
Be sure to install any prerequisite .NET software
BEFORE
continuing with
the HP Insight Software installation. Allowing the HP Insight Software
Installer to install .NET softw
are during the installation process will
restart cluster services disrupting access to the shared disk resulting in an
unsuccessful installation.
Install the ProLiant Support Pack
On each system, install all appropriate components relevant to your system f
rom the ProLiant
Support Pack (PSP). See
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Be sure to include
the component
HP Insight Management Agents for Windows Server 2003
.
Activate the HP
cluster MIB agents
The HP Cluster MIB Agents provide information about your cluster through SNMP. It is a
prerequisite for HP Systems Insight Manager that these MIB agents be installed on your cluster to
discover and identify itself as a cluster, as well
as recognizing its systems as such.
On each system activate the HP Cluster MIB Agents:
1.
From the
Contol Panel
, select
HP Management Agents
.
The HP Management Agents for Servers
window appears.
a.
Select the
Services
tab.
b.
Under the
Inactive Agents:
l
ist box on
the right side, double
-
click
Clustering
Information
to add it to the
Active Agents
list box on the left side.