HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 Installation Guide

— Nagios, a system and network monitoring application that provides monitoring
capabilities for Insight Control for Linux. Nagios watches specified hosts and services
and issues alerts when problems occur and when problems are resolved.
— RRDtool, a round robin database tool and graphing system. Insight Control for Linux
uses RRDtool with Nagios to provide a graphical view of system status.
— Supermon, a high-speed cluster monitoring system that emphasizes low perturbation,
high sampling rates, and an extensible data protocol and programming interface.
Supermon works in conjunction with Nagios to provide system monitoring data.
— syslog-ng, a tool used for consolidated logging.
• Scalable monitoring for hundreds of servers Insight Control for Linux can monitor and
manage hundreds of servers with the infrastructure to support over one thousand servers
through the use of management hubs. Management hubs are servers that are responsible
for monitoring a subset of managed systems. By defining multiple servers to acts as hubs,
the monitoring load is distributed across multiple servers. The general guideline is to assign
one management hub for every 256 managed systems.
• Robust power management Insight Control for Linux includes power management features
that provides centralized monitoring and control of server power consumption and thermal
output, sets power regulation policies for groups of servers, and optimizes and controls use
of data center power and cooling facilities. Power management features and configuration
options are accessed through the following menus:
— Tools→Integrated Consoles→Power Management...
— Configure→Power Management
— Options→Power Management...
— Reports→Power Management→Display Power/Thermal Data
• Virtual machine environments Insight Control for Linux virtualization features track,
monitor, and control functions for organizing an effective virtualized environment. It
leverages key industry alliances to provide best-in-class management capability across most
virtualization software platforms and industry standard servers.
An Insight Control for Linux CMS can run successfully on a Xen virtual machine guest; it
provides the same functionality as a CMS on a physical machine. This includes installation,
bare metal discovery, capturing and deploying OS images, and other supported functions.
Virtualization features and configuration options are access through the following menus:
— Configure→Virtual Machine
— Tools→Virtual Machine...
— Deploy→Virtual Machine
Managing virtual environments is documented in the HP Insight Control for Linux User Guide.
• Remote power control Insight Control for Linux enables you to reboot, power on, and
power off a managed system through its management processor directly from the
Tools→Server Controls menu.
Remote power control features are documented in the HP Insight Control for Linux User Guide.
• Central software repository Insight Control for Linux provides a web-based software
repository where vendor-supplied Linux OSs, installation configuration files (Kickstart and
AutoYaST files), PSPs, and captured Linux images are stored for deployment to managed
systems.
The Insight Control for Linux software repository is located in the /opt/repository
directory on the CMS.
Registering software in the repository and copying software to the repository is described
in the HP Insight Control for Linux User Guide.
8 Product overview