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Upgrading HP SIM 4.x to HP SIM 5.0 - HP-UX

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This procedure verifies that your system meets the minimum requirements and prepares your system for installation.

To verify and prepare your system:

  1. Verify your system meets the minimum requirements.

  2. Install the latest required and recommended HP-UX 11i patches.

    Verify your system meets the minimum requirements. Refer to 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 see extended upgrade times of 2 hours before you are able to log into 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

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

    To download the software, refer to 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, then Download latest version of HP SIM-HP-UX for a full product install.

  4. When installing HP SIM Java-out-of-box (JAVAOOB) is required and will be automatically selected for installation. For additional information, refer to 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

    max_thread_proc

    =3000

    maxdsiz

    =2063835136

    maxfiles

    =2048

    maxfiles_lim

    =2048

    maxusers

    =512

    nfile

    =4097

    nkthread

    =6000

    nproc

    =2048

    tcp_conn_request_max

    =2048

    Additionally, HP SIM will adjust the following kernel parameters:

    nfile

    =30000

    semmns

    =2048

    semmni

    =1024

    When you install HP Systems Insight Manager, the following software dependencies are required: hpSysMgmtDB, JAVAOOB, AND SSH, (HP-UX Secure Shell). If you would like HP SIM to manage your Central Management Server (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.

  5. 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, an automatic reboot is performed, and then the actual upgrade process begins. 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.
  6. After upgrading to HP SIM 5.0 you must sign into 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.

  7. (Optional) If you plan to run the Mozilla browser on the Central Management Server (CMS) verify that Mozilla 1.7.3 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 or Mozilla at http://localhost:280/.

    NOTE: The HP Systems Insight Manager First Time Wizard appears the first time a user with full configuration rights logs into HP Systems Insight Manager. The First Time Wizard configures only the basic settings. There are other options available, refer to the HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.

Next Steps. Install and configure the required Management Agents on the systems that will be managed by the (CMS). Refer to Chapter 12 “Initial Setup” for details. Next, complete the initial setup of HP Systems Insight Manager. Initial setup involves adding managed systems, adding users, setting up authorizations, and configuring event handling. Refer to Chapter 12 “Initial Setup” for details.

NOTE: Serviceguard integration has changed with HP SIM 5.0. If you updated from HP SIM 4.2 with Serviceguard Manager 4.02, you can still launch Serviceguard Manager. To do this, select a cluster member from the Tools > Integrated Consoles menu. To update Serviceguard Manager to v5.0 refer to http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot., Once updated to v5.0 you can launch Serviceguard Manager by clicking a cluster name.

WARNING: After upgrading from HP SIM 4.x to HP SIM 5.0 for HP-UX, do *not* remove the SD bundles HPSIM-Migration or ixPostgreSQL. One of these bundles will be on your system (depending on whether you are upgrading from HP SIM version 4.2.0.1.5 or a previous version respectively) in addition to the HP SIM bundle HPSIM-HP-UX. Either bundle will contain the SD product PostgreSQL. The web release of HP SIM 5.0 for HP-UX contains the custom version of the PosgreSQL database which was packaged as a SD bundle with a name of hpSysMgmtDB, containing the SD product SysMgmtDB. However, this version of the database is only used with new installations of HP SIM. When upgrading from HP SIM 4.x, HP SIM 5.0 will continue to use the PostgreSQL program from the previous release of HP SIM. When upgrading from 5.0, HP SIM will continue to use the previously active database program. The hpSysMgmtDB bundle tag will be removed since the SysMgmtDB product is now contained within the HPSIM-HP-UX bundle.

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