Hp BladeSystem Management Suite Installation Poster

HP BladeSystem Management Suite

Installation Poster

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Part number: 380138-004 Fourth edition: June 2006

HP BladeSystem Management Suite

The HP BladeSystem Management Suite provides licenses for a powerful set of management plug-in products integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager. The BladeSystem Management Suite consists of the following products:

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP SIM

HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP)

HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack (VPM)

HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack—Windows Edition (RDP)

The BladeSystem Management Suite kit includes a license key card that provides eight additional permanent licenses each for PMP, the Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack, and the Rapid Deployment Pack—Windows Edition.

IMPORTANT: you plan to install the Rapid Deployment

Pack—Windows Edition on the same server as HP SIM, install the Rapid Deployment Pack—Windows Edition before installing HP SIM and the other products on the Management CD.

This document provides basic information about installing and using the BladeSystem Management Suite software. For detailed infrastructure, installation, configuration, and usage information about the various plug-in products, see the appropriate product documentation.

Configuration specifications

The following table provides minimum and recommended configuration specifications for installation of the HP BladeSystem Management Suite.

Table 1 Installation configuration specifications

Configuration Specifications

Minimum 1 processor in ProLiant G3 or G4 server with 2 GB RAM Recommended 2 processors in ProLiant G3 or G4 server with 4 GB RAM

1 Installing HP Systems Insight Manager

HP SIM manages HP ProLiant, Integrity, and HP 9000 systems running Microsoft® Windows®, Linux, and HP-UX. The core HP SIM software delivers the essential capabilities required to manage all HP server platforms.

HP SIM functionality for Windows can be extended with plug-in products for blade server management, performance management, and vulnerability scanning and patching technologies, among others. These applications enable you to achieve complete lifecycle management for your servers.

NOTE: While HP SIM 5.0 can be installed with the Oracle®

database, the Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack and Rapid Deployment Pack—Windows Edition do not support this option. The BladeSystem Management Suite requires the use of either a Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) or SQL server.

To install HP SIM 5.0 from the HP Management CD for the first time:

1. Verify your system meets the configuration specifications as described in

the previous section. For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager Release Notes on the Management CD.

2. Install the required Windows, SQL, and MSDE service packs, if

necessary.

NOTE: The HP SIM installer prompts you to install MSDE with the

correct service pack if a database is not detected.

3. If your system does not already have a New Technology File System

(NTFS)-formatted partition on which to install HP SIM, create or format such a partition.

4. Insert the Management CD in the CD-ROM drive.

5. Read the license agreement displayed by the autorun. If you agree to

the terms of the license, click Agree to continue.

6. Click Products, and then click Install under HP Systems

Insight Manager.

7. From the HP Systems Insight Manager Installer window, click Install to

launch the install process.

To migrate to HP SIM 5.0 from previous versions, select one of the following migration paths depending on your server environment:

HP Systems Insight Manager 4.2 or earlier—See the HP Systems Insight

Manager Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft® Windows

located on the Management CD or at the Information Library on the HP SIM website to upgrade to HP SIM 5.0.

Insight Manager 7—See the HP Systems Insight Manager Installation

and Configuration Guide for Microsoft® Windows to upgrade to HP SIM 4.2, using the provided data migration tools to easily migrate Insight Manager 7 key management data and configuration settings. After you have migrated to HP SIM 4.2, upgrade to HP SIM 5.x.

Certain BladeSystem Management Suite plug-in products use both OpenSSH and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Mapper. Both OpenSSH and WMI Mapper are installed as part of a typical HP SIM installation.

For more information about typical and custom installation of HP SIM, see the HP Systems Insight Manager Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft® Windows on the Management CD or at the Information Library on the HP SIM website.

For more information about HP SIM, see

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim.

2 Installing HP SIM plug-in products

HP SIM plug-in products for Windows consist of the following:

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP SIM

HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack

HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager provides a single view within HP SIM of your HP BladeSystem enterprise. You can view and manage blades, switches, server blade enclosures, power enclosures, and racks.

Installing HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager is automatically installed and available by default with a typical or custom installation of HP SIM from the Management CD. To access HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager, select Tools>Integrated Console>HP BladeSystem.

Licensing HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager

No license key is required for HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager. For more information about HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager, see

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/bsme/ index.html.

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