HP-UX Central Management Server

This section contains the requirements for the operating system that is used for the HP-UX CMS.

Operating system

Hardware

Software

Networking

HP-UX 11i v1
HP-UX 11i v2 (September 2004 or later)
HP-UX 11i v3

Note: The required patches must be installed for each of these operating systems. Refer to “HP-UX patches” for more information.

Any HP system (PA-RISC 2.0 or Integrity) server with a minimum of 2 GB RAM (3 GB for HP-UX 11i v3)

Any HP system with Oracle installed with a minimum of 4 GB RAM

free disk space

20 MB for CMS (/)
600 MB for the CMS and DTF agent (/opt)
500 MB minimum recommended for data (/var/opt)

swap space

3 GB minimum total swap space for PA-RISC systems
4 GB minimum total swap space for Intel® Itanium®-based systems

OpenSSH installed
HP WBEM Services for HP-UX, installed and active
(Optional) Oracle 9i release 2
Oracle 10g
Java Out-of-Box installed (shipped as optional selectable software as part of the operating system)

Properly configured and working Domain Name System (DNS)




	NOTE: HP SIM 5.1 can run on an Integrity Virtual Machine (VM) provided the following requirements are met: The VM must be running HP-UX 11i v2 and the VM configuration must meet HP SIM hardware requirements. The CPU and Memory resources allocated to this VM must be always available to this VM (by reserving CPU and Memory resources). If running OpenView NNM or OpenView Operations on the same system, the SNMP trap listening port must be changed in those products to function properly. Refer to the OpenView product documentation in the Integrating HP SIM 5.0 with HP OpenView Select Access white paper at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.Legacy Novell systems with only an IPX network enabled will not be manageable by an HP-UX CMS. An IP-based network must be available.If you are using Network Information Services (NIS), ping localhost and if you receive no response, create or edit the file `/etc/nsswitch.conf` and add the following entry in the file: `hosts: files dns nis`. If NIS server is not in the network, do not add the `nis` entry in `/etc/nsswitch.conf`.

HP-UX patches

There are required patches that must be installed to run HP Systems Insight Manager. All patches should be installed before running HP Systems Insight Manager. In particular, all patches that are required to support the Java that HP SIM uses must be installedl.

Note: To determine the Java version installed, execute:

/opt/mx/j2re/bin/java –version

Currently, the product is shipped with Java 1.5 (or Java 5.0) Runtime Environment.

Note: For more information about java patches, go to http://www.hp.com/go/java, and select Patches from the Site information. This site determines the recommended patches for the Java application. Follow the instructions given. To download all of the patches, go to the ITRC download center (login required). For more information on individual patches, click the patch name.

Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches

To download patches:

Browse to the patch database:
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do
Click the HP-UX link.
Select the appropriate hardware and operating system. For example, 800 and 11.11.
Select Search by Patch IDs, enter the patch IDs, and click search.
Select the patches, and click add to selected patch list at the bottom of the page to add dependent patches.
Click download selected, and follow the directions on the screen. HP recommends the gzip package format.

To install patches:

Create a /var/tmp/patches directory, and copy the downloaded patches into that directory.
Execute:
gunzip patch_file
tar -xvf patch_file
Load the patches into /var/tmp/patches/depot:
./create_depot_hp-ux_11
Install the patches:
swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s /var/tmp/patches/depot \*
Note: Only the applicable patch file sets are loaded. Continue with the installation after you reboot.

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HP-UX patches

Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches