Upgrading from HP SIM 4.x or later

Verify that your system meets the minimum requirements.

Install the latest required and recommended HP-UX 11i patches. See http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/patches/index.html for details.

Note: If you are running the 2002 release of HP-UX 11.11 (11i v1), apply the required and recommend patches to save time during the upgrade process. If you do not apply the patches, you could experience extended upgrade times of 2 hours before you can log in to the system after an upgrade. If initconfig.log shows 100% completion and you cannot browse into HP SIM on port 280, then stop and start the HP SIM service by running mxstop and mxstart respectively. If the browser is not displaying the pages properly, try shutting down all the browsers to clear the cache.

Download the software, or locate a copy of the software on a depot server.

To download the software, see http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim, and select Download under HP management software on the upper-left of the screen. The HP SIM Download Page appears. Under HP Systems Insight Manager and related components, select HP SIM-HP-UX, and select Download latest version of HP SIM-HP-UX for a full product install.

When installing HP SIM, Java Out-of-Box is required and will be automatically selected for installation. For additional information, see http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/java2/outofbox/index.html. The kernel parameter values it adjusts are listed in the following table.

Java Out-of-Box Settings

Additionally, HP SIM will adjust the following kernel parameters:

When you install HP Systems Insight Manager, the following software dependencies are required: SysMgmtDB, JAVAOOB, and SSH. If you would like HP SIM to manage your CMS you must install WBEM, if it is not already installed. If you downloaded your software from the Web, these dependency packages are included in the depot file. The installation procedure will be described using this depot.

Install HP Systems Insight Manager:

swinstall -s /directory/depot –x autoreboot=true HPSIM-HP-UX

where directory is the path to the depot file and depot is the name of the depot file. For example:

swinstall -s /tmp/HPSIM_download.depot -x autoreboot=true HPSIM-HP-UX

Note:When upgrading your HP Systems Insight Manager installation on HP-UX to HP SIM 5.0, the HP-UX upgrade process includes an automatic reboot and can take up to two hours to complete. You can check the initconfig.log to determine if the upgrade has completed.

After upgrading to HP SIM 5.0, sign in to HP SIM, and run the Daily Device Identification task to ensure that all your associations are updated correctly.

To run the daily Identification task:

1. Select Tasks & Logs>View All Scheduled Tasks. The All Scheduled Tasks page appears.

2. Select the Daily Device Identification task.

3. Click Run Now.

(Optional) If you plan to run the Mozilla browser on the CMS, verify that Mozilla 1.7.8 or later is installed. To verify which version is installed, open the Mozilla browser and select Help>About Mozilla.To browse to HP SIM start the HP SIM graphical user interface (GUI) using Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Mozilla at http://localhost:280/.

	NOTE: The HP Systems Insight Manager First Time Wizard appears when a user with full configuration rights logs in to HP Systems Insight Manager for the first time. The First Time Wizard configures only the basic settings. Other options are available. See the HP SIM User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.