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This section discusses requirements for software
that can or must be installed on systems managed by the VSE Management
Software. WBEM Providers and Agent Software | |
Table 2-6 lists the WBEM providers and other agents that
are required by the VSE Management Software. These components are
installed using the process described in “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems”. HP recommends that you follow this
process to install the latest versions of the agent software. Do not
assume that earlier versions of the providers and agents will work
correctly with this release of the VSE Management Software. Table 2-6 WBEM Providers and Agent Software | Software | Requirements |
|---|
Utilization Provider | The Utilization Provider version 1.7 (A.01.07) or later
is required on all VSE managed systems. It provides utilization data
for Virtualization Manager and Capacity Advisor. Use the process described
in “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems” to
install the latest version of the Utilization Provider. | Application Discovery Agent | The AD agent version 3.1.00.01 or later is required on all
systems that are managed by Application Discovery. Use the process
described in “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems” to install the latest version of the AD agent. | Application Discovery WBEM Provider | The Application Discovery WBEM Provider version
3.1.00.01 or later is required on all systems that are managed by
Application Discovery. Use the process described in “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems” to install
the latest version of the WBEM provider. | gWLM Agent | The gWLM agent is required on all systems that are managed by gWLM.
This release of gWLM works with earlier versions of the gWLM agent.
Changes introduced with gWLM version A.04.00.07 enable you to perform
the following tasks. You cannot deploy SRDs that use these features
on managed systems using earlier versions of the gWLM agent. Create conditional policies that depend on time-based
conditions Create conditional policies that depend on file-based
conditions Create custom policies that scale metrics you provide
to generate requests for CPU resources for your workloads Create SRDs from members of a Global Instant Capacity
(GiCAP) group[1]
HP recommends installing the latest version
of the gWLM agent, using the process described in “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems”. | nPartition Provider | Install this software on HP-UX managed systems even if the
system does not use nPartitions. - HP-UX 11i v1
Requires version B.11.11.01.03.01.01 or later. - HP-UX 11i v2 on HP 9000
Requires version B.11.23.01.03.01.01 or later. - HP-UX 11i v2 on HP Integrity
Requires version B.11.23.01.04 or later. - HP-UX 11i v3
Requires version B.31.01.07.01 or later.
Use the process described in “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems” to install
the latest version of the nPartition Provider. | VM Provider | VM Provider version 1.20 or later
must be installed on HP Integrity VM host systems. Earlier versions
of the VM Provider can be used on individual virtual machines. Installed
versions of HP Integrity VM, VM Provider, and VMGuestLib must be compatible.
Do not mix different versions of these components on the same system. Use the process described in “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems” to install the latest version of
the VM Provider. | vPar Provider | The vPar Provider that was included
with the March 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) does not
work properly. With the March 2006 version installed, HP SIM and the
VSE Management software do not discover and display virtual partitions
correctly. The vPar Provider that is included with the VSE Management
software fixes this problem. However, it presents the same version
number as the March 2006 version. The same problem
exists with the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) version of the vPar Provider
when used with WBEM version A.02.00.09. This problem does not occur
with the HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) vPar Provider. You can fix this problem by executing the following command on each
system where the vPar Provider is installed: # /opt/wbem/bin/cimmof -n root/cimv2/vpar \
/opt/vparprovider/mof/HPUX_VParLocalPartition.mof |
Alternatively, on systems running HP-UX 11i v2,
you can remove the installed version of the vPar Provider and install
the version delivered with the VSE Management software (or forcibly
reinstall the VSE Management Software version). |
Other Software and Services | |
Table 2-7 lists requirements that apply to other software
installed on managed systems. Table 2-7 Additional Software Required on Managed Systems | Software | Requirements |
|---|
WBEM | WBEM is required
on managed systems to support the visualization and configuration
features of Virtualization Manager and the collection of utilization
data for Capacity Advisor. Without WBEM, only gWLM is functional. On managed systems running HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2,
HP WBEM Services for HP-UX version A.02.00.11 or later must be installed.
For managed systems running HP-UX 11i v3, HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
version A.02.05 or later is required. Using earlier versions of WBEM
can generate cimserver errors, including timeouts in Virtualization
Manager and VM Manager, and messages such as “CIM failure” and “Connection Refused”. You can install these versions
of WBEM on managed systems from the CMS using the Configure
VSE Agents menu. For more information, see “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems”. On Linux managed systems you must install tog-pegasus version 2.5 or later and the HP Integrity
Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux Management CD. For more information,
see “Preinstallation Steps for Linux Managed Systems”. | LDAP | If you use
LDAP-UX, HP recommends using version B.04.00.xx. Previous versions (such as B.03.xx)
deny WBEM authentication as well as authentication to HP System Management
Homepage (HP SMH). LDAP-UX Version B.03.xx prevents HP SIM and the VSE Management Software
from reading required WBEM data. The latest version
of LDAP-UX Integration for HP-UX is available from Software Depot
at http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=J4269AA. | OpenSSH | OpenSSH version
4.40 or later is required on managed systems in order to install the
VSE agent software from HP SIM, create monitored workloads, and execute
commands on managed systems remotely from the CMS. Remote command
execution is used by Partition Manager, VM Manager, and the capovpaextract command. OpenSSH for HP-UX
managed systems is provided by HP-UX Secure Shell. This software can
be downloaded from http://software.hp.com, and
is also available on the HP-UX OE/AR media releases. It is installed
by default. OpenSSH must be configured for use by HP
SIM. For more information, see “Install VSE Agent Software on Managed Systems”. On Windows managed systems, OpenSSH is not installed
by default, but it can be installed from the HP Smart Setup installation
media (version 4.5 or later). You must manually configure OpenSSH
for use with HP SIM. For more information, see “Preinstallation Steps for Microsoft Windows Managed Systems”. On Linux systems, OpenSSH is usually installed by
default, or it can be installed from the Linux distribution media.
However, you might need to manually configure OpenSSH for use with
HP SIM. For more information, see “Preinstallation Steps for Linux Managed Systems”. For more information about configuring
OpenSSH for use with HP SIM, see the HP white paper Secure Shell (SSH) in HP SIM 5.0, available from the Information Library link
at http://hp.com/go/hpsim. | OpenSSL | OpenSSL is required on managed systems in order to enable
the Application Discovery agent software to send application information
to the CMS. The latest version of OpenSSL software
for HP-UX is available from Software Depot at http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=OPENSSL11I. On Linux systems, OpenSSL is
usually installed by default, or it can be installed from the Linux
distribution media. To avoid a number of known security
vulnerabilities, the version of OpenSSL on a managed system should
be later than 0.9.7l for the 0.9.7 branch, or later than 0.9.8d for
the 0.9.8 branch. For the latest information about
OpenSSL, including security advisories, see http://www.openssl.org/news. | | | |  | NOTE: This link refers to an external website outside of the HP web.
Hewlett-Packard is not responsible for the information at this site. | | | | |
| HP Integrity VM | Installed versions of HP Integrity VM, VM Provider, and
VMGuestLib must be compatible. Do not mix different versions of these
components on the same system. In addition, HP Integrity VM might
require additional HP-UX patches installed on the VM Host and on virtual
machines. For more information, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes. | HP Serviceguard | HP Serviceguard version 11.16 or later is supported by
Virtualization Manager. Monitored workloads can be associated with
a Serviceguard cluster and package. If HP Serviceguard Manager is
installed on the CMS, systems that are contained in Serviceguard clusters
can be viewed through Serviceguard Manager with a click from Virtualization
Manager. The HP Serviceguard WBEM provider requires privileged
access. If you use a Serviceguard cluster that is not configured for
SNMP or you are not using the SNMP Serviceguard provider, then you
must configure a privileged WBEM user account on all managed systems
in the Serviceguard cluster. | Interrupt-balancing daemon (intrbald) | If you are using gWLM, Instant Capacity,
or vPars on an HP-UX managed system, the interrupt-balancing daemon intrbald might improve performance. On HP-UX 11i v2, this
software is available by installing patches PHKL_36288, PHKL_36490,
and PHCO_36079. On HP-UX 11i v3, it is included with the March 2008
(or later) FEATURE11i bundle, or you can install patches PHKL_36778,
PHKL_36779, and PHCO_37478. | | | | | NOTE: The patches listed above might have additional patch dependencies
and might be superseded by more recent patches. | | | | |
For more information, see intrbald(1M). |
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