HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

18 Connecting to a remote console............................................................................193
18.1 Console management facility overview......................................................................................193
18.2 How CMF works..........................................................................................................................193
18.3 Accessing a remote console.........................................................................................................193
18.4 Serial connections on DL100 series servers.................................................................................194
18.5 Enabling telnet access to iLO management processors...............................................................195
19 Using SSH for remote server management...........................................................197
19.1 Setting SSH credentials on managed systems.............................................................................197
19.2 Setting SSH credentials for users.................................................................................................197
19.3 Running a command on multiple managed systems..................................................................198
19.4 Using HP Insight Control for Linux to run commands and scripts through SSH......................199
19.4.1 Running an SSH command.................................................................................................199
19.4.2 Running a Linux script........................................................................................................200
20 Managing licenses..................................................................................................203
20.1 Licensing overview......................................................................................................................203
20.2 Adding the Insight Control for Linux license key to HP SIM.....................................................203
20.3 Licensing virtual guests...............................................................................................................204
21 Miscellaneous topics...............................................................................................205
21.1 Changing management processor credentials............................................................................205
21.2 Changing the default port for the repository web server............................................................205
21.3 Increasing the number of servers that can be discovered concurrently......................................206
21.4 Changing the IP address of the CMS ..........................................................................................206
21.5 Uninstalling HP Insight Control for Linux..................................................................................206
21.6 Determining the installed HP Insight Control for Linux version...............................................207
21.7 Event logging overview...............................................................................................................207
21.7.1 Understanding the event logging structure........................................................................207
21.7.2 The syslog-ng.conf rules file................................................................................................208
21.7.3 Modifying the syslog-ng rules files.....................................................................................208
21.8 Changing the number of concurrent tasks..................................................................................208
21.9 Support for HP ProLiant DL1xx series servers...........................................................................209
21.9.1 Configuring SNMP..............................................................................................................209
21.9.2 Restoring Operation After a Firmware Upgrade................................................................209
21.10 Setting up the DHCP server for virtual guests..........................................................................210
22 Advanced topics......................................................................................................211
22.1 Management Processor Credentials............................................................................................211
22.1.1 General information on Insight Control for Linux MP credentials.....................................211
22.1.2 Maintaining MP unique credentials....................................................................................211
22.1.2.1 Discovering and setting up servers with PXE deployment........................................211
22.1.2.2 Discovering and setting up servers with virtual media deployment.........................212
22.1.3 LO100 management processor credential storage...............................................................212
22.2 Deploying WBEM provider components using Configure or Repair Agents task.....................213
23 Troubleshooting.......................................................................................................215
23.1 General troubleshooting topics...................................................................................................215
23.2 Alternative booting......................................................................................................................216
23.2.1 Booting a managed system to Linux Rescue Mode.............................................................216
23.2.2 Booting a managed system to the SmartStart Toolkit.........................................................216
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