HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 Release Notes

1 Overview and description

1.1 Insight Control for Linux overview

Insight Control for Linux is a Linux-hosted management product for HP ProLiant servers in

enterprise environments and high performance workgroups. Insight Control for Linux is designed

as a plug-in to HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM).

In addition to advanced monitoring features, Insight Control for Linux provides a rich set of

remote software deployment features that enable you to deploy supported versions of Red Hat

Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), or other unsupported

variants of Linux operating systems over a network connection to managed systems.

The Insight Control for Linux software is installed on the server you have chosen to be the Central

Management Server (CMS). You connect to SIM on the CMS and all SIM and Insight Control for

Linux tasks and operations are initiated from the CMS.

1.2 Release overview

This release of Insight Control for Linux is an ISO image that you can use to perform a full

installation of Insight Control for Linux.

If the CMS is already installed with a previous release of Insight Control for Linux, a mechanism

is available for you to automatically upgrade the CMS to Version 6.2.

For information on the

action of the installation script when it detects a previous version of Insight Control for Linux,

see the HP Insight Control for Linux Support Matrix.

The Insight Control for Linux Version 6.2 distribution medium (DVD or ISO image) contains the

following software products and documentation:

• HP SIM

• HP Insight Control for Linux Version 6.2

• HP Insight Control power management Version 6.2

• HP Insight Control virtual machine management Version 6.2

• The source code for the open source products integrated with Insight Control for Linux

• A PDF file and a text file in the /DOCS directory that describes how to obtain the Insight

Control for Linux documentation set and documentation for related HP products from the

World Wide Web.

1.2.1 How to obtain the ISO image

The Insight Control for Linux Version 6.2 ISO image is available for download from the HP

Software Depot home page for Insight Control for Linux:

http://www.hp.com/go/Software-Depot-IC-Linux

1.3 New and changed features

This section describes the new and changed features introduced in this release:

1.3.1 Support for new servers

Support for the following HP ProLiant servers:

• BL2x220c G7 server blade

• BL460c G7 server blade

• BL490c G7 server blade

• WS460c G6 server blade

1. For information on how to perform a full installation of Insight Control for Linux or an upgrade from a previous

version, see the HP Insight Control for Linux Installation Guide.

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