HP Operations Manager for UNIX Administrator’s Reference

HP Performance Agent
Installation Requirements
Hardware and Software Requirements
Before installing HP Performance Agent, make sure your managed node
platform meets the hardware requirements detailed in the HP
Performance Agent Installation and Concepts Guide.
DCOM and IIS Setup for HTTPS Managed Nodes on Windows
Before installing HTTPS agents on Windows managed nodes, make sure
that the following permissions are set for the Distributed Component
Object Model (DCOM) and Internet Information Services (IIS):
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DCOM
Local administrators must have both launch and access permissions.
To configure launch and access permissions to DCOM, run dcomcnfg,
and check the default permissions in the security settings.
Refer to the Readme.txt file that is available with the HP
Performance Agent installation packages for more information about
DCOM setup.
IIS
Make sure that FTP access is available and you have write access as
anonymous FTP or administrator user.
To configure FTP write access to IIS, enable write access to the FTP
site directory in the Computer Management module.
See the Microsoft Windows documentation for more information about
configuring DCOM and IIS.
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