HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 4)

4 Installing and setting up managed systems...............................................................45
4.1 Populating the Insight Control for Linux repository......................................................................45
4.2 Setting up management hubs..........................................................................................................45
4.2.1 Creating a management hub...................................................................................................46
4.3 Installing a Linux OS on managed systems....................................................................................48
4.4 Setting up managed systems for monitoring..................................................................................48
4.4.1 Opening network ports on managed systems........................................................................48
4.4.2 Resolving host names on the CMS..........................................................................................49
4.4.3 Installing additional components of the PSP..........................................................................50
4.4.4 Configuring agents and HP SIM SSH keys.............................................................................50
4.4.5 Configuring console access and logging.................................................................................52
4.4.6 Turning on password authentication .....................................................................................54
4.5 Next steps........................................................................................................................................54
5 Configuring monitoring services.................................................................................55
5.1 Overview of monitoring..................................................................................................................55
5.2 Configuring a self-signed Apache certificate on the CMS..............................................................55
5.3 Starting management and monitoring services .............................................................................55
5.4 Installing HP Insight Control for Linux management agents.........................................................57
5.5 Verifying successful configuration of the monitoring services.......................................................57
5.5.1 Ensuring that Nagios is reporting status................................................................................58
5.5.2 Summarizing service status....................................................................................................58
6 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository...................................................61
6.1 Introduction to the Insight Control for Linux repository ..............................................................61
6.1.1 Configuring a remote repository.............................................................................................62
6.1.2 Repository contents.................................................................................................................63
6.1.3 Repository item naming conventions.....................................................................................64
6.2 Registering items in the Insight Control for Linux repository........................................................64
6.2.1 Registration overview.............................................................................................................64
6.2.2 Registering operating systems................................................................................................64
6.2.3 Registering PSPs......................................................................................................................66
6.2.4 Registering automated installation configuration files (Kickstart and AutoYaST)................68
6.2.5 Registering Linux and PSP dependency scripts.....................................................................69
6.3 Copying software to the Insight Control for Linux repository.......................................................69
6.3.1 Copying RHEL into the local repository on the CMS.............................................................70
6.3.2 Copying RHEL into a remote repository................................................................................70
6.3.3 Copying SLES into the repository...........................................................................................71
6.3.3.1 Copying SLES version 10 or version 11 into the repository............................................71
6.3.3.2 Copying SLES version 9 into the repository...................................................................73
6.3.4 Copying virtual machine OS into the repository....................................................................77
6.3.5 Copying a custom OS into the repository...............................................................................77
6.3.6 Automating a custom OS installation.....................................................................................77
6.3.7 Downloading and copying PSPs into the repository..............................................................78
6.4 Editing and deleting registered items.............................................................................................79
6.4.1 Editing registered items in the repository...............................................................................79
6.4.2 Deleting registered items from the repository........................................................................79
7 Installing operating systems on managed systems...................................................81
7.1 Linux OS installation overview.......................................................................................................81
7.1.1 Interactive versus unattended installations............................................................................81
7.1.2 Supported operating systems..................................................................................................82
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