HP Insight Management for Tivoli - Manual (Page 8)

Product overview 8
HP hardware support
The HP Insight Integration module for Netcool/OMNIbus has been developed to install and operate
with Netcool/OMNIbus on all supported Windows® and UNIX platforms including Windows®
2008, Linux, and Solaris.
NOTE: HP Insight Integration module for Netcool/OMNIbus has been verified on HP ProLiant
servers and Sun SPARC systems configured as Netcool/OMNIbus on Windows® 2008, RHEL 5,
SUSE 9, and Solaris 10.
Disk space and memory requirements
Be sure there is enough disk space available on the volume to accommodate the platform on which
you are installing.
Platform Space required for complete installation
Solaris 440 Mbytes
HP-UX 492 Mbytes
AIX 379 Mbytes
Windows 303 Mbytes
Linux 409 Mbytes
HP software requirements
The following HP software is needed to implement the full functionality of the rules and lookup files for
Netcool/OMNIbus.
HP Insight Management Agents
Insights Management Agents are required on every managed HP server. The Insight Management
Agents monitor hardware instrumentation and subsystem status and generate SNMP events.
The rules and lookup files for Netcool/OMNIbus v5.0 includes hardware support and SNMP event
instrumentation for HP ProLiant servers up to Insight Management Agents 8.60. HP recommends that
Insight Management Agents 5.50 or higher be used.
To view data instrumented by HP Insight Management Agents on an individual server,
Netcool/OMNIbus includes a Desktop tool Event List.
Insight Management Agents for HP servers are included with HP Support Packs included with the
Foundation Pack and SmartStart CDs shipped with HP ProLiant servers and can be downloaded from
the ProLiant Essentials Management Software website ( http://www.hp.com/servers/manage ).
Supported Platforms for HP Insight Management Agents:
• Windows 2000
• Windows NT 4.0 SP6
• Windows 2003
• NetWare 5.x or later