HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

Table 1-1 Insight Control for Linux extensions to the HP Insight Control user interface (continued)
Documented inDescriptionMenu item
Section 23.2.2 (page 216)Boots a managed system to the HP SmartStart Toolkit
environment for maintenance.
Configure→Boot to
SmartStart Toolkit
Chapter 8 (page 99)Initiates a firmware update on any ProLiant server
licensed for Insight Control for Linux on your CMS.
IMPORTANT: Servers selected for a firmware update
are shut down and servers successfully updated are left
powered down.
Deploy→Deploy Drivers,
Firmware and
Agents→IC-Linux→Update
ProLiant Firmware...
1.4 HP Insight Control for Linux toolboxes
HP Insight Control for Linux is preconfigured with a pair of role-based toolboxes. A toolbox is
a set of tools available in HP SIM or Insight Control for Linux. With toolboxes, you can easily
grant the authorization of several tools to a user with a single command.
The toolboxes and the tools they contain are:
Insight Control for Linux Manage toolboxInsight Control for Linux Deploy toolbox
• Boot to Linux Rescue Mode
• Boot to SmartStart Toolkit
• Configure Management Services
• Configure SNMP on DL1xx Servers
• Install Agents
• Uninstall Insight Control for Linux Agents
• Nagios
• Performance Dashboard
• Modify Management Processor Credentials
• Power Off Server
• Power On Server
• Reboot Server
• Run SSH Command
• Run Script
• Update ProLiant Firmware
• Red Hat Interactive
• Red Hat (Kickstart)
• SLES Interactive
• SLES (AutoYaST)
• VMware ESX Interactive
• VMware ESX (Kickstart)
• VMware ESXi Interactive
• Custom or Other
• Device Discovery
• Capture Linux Image
• Deploy Linux Image
The Insight Control for Linux Deploy toolbox contains all tools you need to install, capture, and
deploy images remotely. The Insight Control for Linux Manage toolbox is for users who will
only monitor and manage the health of the managed systems. If you want to create a user who
can access related set of tools using these toolboxes, use the following commands after creating
the new Linux user account for them:
$ mxuser –a username –d "Manager Account" –p none
$ mxauth –a –u username –R "Insight Control for Linux Manage" –n "*"
For information on creating administrator accounts, that is, non-root accounts with the privileges
required to access and use HP SIM, see the HP Insight Control for Linux Installation Guide.
1.5 HP Insight Control for Linux command environment
Table 1-2 lists the HP Insight Control for Linux commands that you can run from the command
line on the CMS or on any management hub, with the exception of the pdsh command.
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