Linux central management server – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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5.
Select the patches, and click add to selected patch list at the bottom of the page to add dependent
patches.
6.
Click download selected, and follow the directions on the screen. HP recommends the
gzip package
format.
To install patches:
1.
Create a /var/tmp/patches directory, and copy the downloaded patches into that directory.
2.
Execute:
gunzip patch_file
tar -xvf patch_file
3.
Load the patches into /var/tmp/patches/depot:
./create_depot_hp-ux_11
4.
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.
Linux Central Management Server
This section contains the requirements for the Linux operating system that is used for the CMS.
Networking
Software
Hardware
Operating system
• Static or dynamic host name
resolution
Note: On Linux, look for the
entry 127.0.0.1 localhost,
the local system IP address,
and the system name in the
/etc/hosts file. If they are
not present, add the entries
manually.
• SNMP
• OpenSSH version 1.0 or
later
• ProLiant Support Pack for
Linux 7.00 or later
• (Optional) Oracle 9i release
2
• Oracle 10g
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
AS/ES update 7:
▲ PostgreSQL 7.4.1
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
AS/ES update 3:
▲ PostgreSQL 7.4.7
For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9:
▲ PostgreSQL 7.4.2-36.3
For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10:
▲ PostgreSQL 8.1.4
Any HP IA-32 system with the
following configuration:
• Minimum: 1.5-GHz
processor and 768 MB RAM
• Recommended: 2.4-GHz
processor and 1 GB RAM
Any HP system with Oracle 9i
installed minimum 4 GB RAM
free disk space
• 2 MB for CMS (/)
• 400 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 Itanium-based
systems
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
AS and ES U7 for x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
AS and ES U3 for x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
for AMD64 and EM64T
(manual installation only)
• SUSE Linux Server 9 with
Service Pack 3 for x86
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 for AMD64 and Intel
EM64T (manual installation
only)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10
NOTE:
PostgreSQL 8.0.x is not supported on HP SIM 5.0 on Japanese installations.
NOTE:
Installing an HP SIM CMS on Linux IPF is not supported. If you see the following error message, it
is because you are attempting to manually install on an unsupported IPF system:
error: %pre(hpsim-C.05.01.00.00-1.i386) sciptlet failed, exit status 255
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hpsim-C.05.01.00.00-1
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