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2 Installation and discovery
Prerequisites for installing HP Insight Control for RHEV
The following are prerequisites for installing HP Insight Control for RHEV:
• RHEV-M must be installed and configured. Refer to Red Hat's documentation for installation
and configuration of RHEV-M.
• The RHEV-M credentials used during configuration of RHEV-M will be needed.
• The postgres password used during configuration of RHEV-M may be needed, depending on
the authentication method selected for postgres (“pg_hba.conf”).
• The RHEV-M reports package must be installed in order for the reporting functionality in HP
Insight Control for RHEV to be installed and available.
• The net-snmp package must be installed in order to communicate with dependent module
HP common services.
Installing and configuring HP Insight Control for RHEV
NOTE: The following installation procedures apply to both new installs as well as upgrades from
a previous version of HP Insight Control for RHEV.
You must ensure that HP Insight Control for RHEV is installed on the (RHEV-M) management console.
To install HP Insight Control for RHEV:
1. Unpack and install the HP Insight Control for RHEV packages:
[root@rhevm ~]# tar zxf hp-icrhev-x.x.x.x.tar.gz
[root@rhevm ~]# rpm -ivh hpcs-x.x.x.x-1.x86_64.rpm
hpicrhev-x.x.x.x-1.x86_64.rpm
NOTE: The “U” option is required for an upgrade installation:
[root@rhevm ~]# tar zxf hp-icrhev-x.x.x.x.tar.gz
[root@rhevm ~]# rpm -Uvh hpcs-x.x.x.x-1.x86_64.rpm
hpicrhev-x.x.x.x-1.x86_64.rpm
Installing and configuring HP Insight Control for RHEV 9