HP Insight Management 7.3 Getting Started Guide

2 HP Insight Management component descriptions
This chapter provides descriptions of the software components delivered on the Insight Management
distribution media, organized by software category.
HP Systems Insight management software
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP Systems Insight Manager is the underlying foundation of the Insight Management components.
Insight Management is installed on the Systems Insight Manager Central Management Server
(CMS), the primary management console which runs Microsoft Windows. Systems Insight Manager
is the clear choice for managing HP servers and storage by being the easiest, simplest, and least
expensive way for HP system administrators to maximize system uptime and health.
Systems Insight Manager provides foundational management services that include device discovery
and identification, notification of important events and alerts, health monitoring, inventory data
collection, software version control, and reporting. Systems Insight Manager is built on industry
standards and is extensible with value-added essential Insight management software as well as
custom application and scripts to meet individual management needs.
Systems Insight Manager is the cornerstone of the HP strategy to provide unified server and storage
management, maximize system uptime, reduce total cost of ownership, and provide powerful
monitoring and control of your HP hardware environment.
Systems Insight Manager automatically discovers, identifies, and manages all your HP ProLiant,
HP Integrity, and HP 9000 servers, HP BladeSystem enclosures, HP ProCurve switches, and MSA,
EVA, and XP storage.
The Systems Insight Manager CMS, the server where you install Insight Management, is the launching
point for Systems Insight Manager tools and utilities. The Systems Insight Manager graphical user
interface also serves as the central integration point for all Insight Management components; most
Insight Management components and features can be launched directly from the Systems Insight
Manager GUI.
Systems Insight Manager enables you to maximize system uptime and system health by:
• Isolating potential and actual fault conditions before they result in unplanned server downtime.
• Monitoring all critical server and storage subsystems.
• Delivering email or pager notification of important events to your IT staff.
• Enabling you to create customized views of managed devices by location, business unit, or
device role. The summary status associated with each device group helps systems administrators
quickly identify areas within the IT environment that require attention.
• Providing warranty and contract information through HP Insight Remote Support software,
which is described in “HP Insight Remote Support Advanced software” (page 11).
• Easily integrating with Insight Control and the Matrix Operating Environment.
HP System Management Homepage
HP System Management Homepage is a web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies
single-system management for HP servers running Linux and Windows operating systems. System
Management Homepage provides a common, easy-to-use interface to proactively manage individual
servers by aggregating data from HP web-based agents and management utilities and displaying
the in-depth hardware faults, status, performance data, system thresholds, diagnostics, and software
version control information.
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