HP Insight Control for Linux 7.0 Release Notes

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1.1 Description
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 (HP 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), VMware ESX and ESXi, 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 chose to be the Central
Management Server (CMS). You connect to HP SIM on the CMS and all HP SIM and Insight Control
for Linux tasks and operations are initiated from the CMS.
1.1.1 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.
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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 7.0.
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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 7.0 distribution medium (DVD or ISO image) contains the following
software products and documentation:
• HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0
• HP Insight Control for Linux 7.0
• HP Insight Control power management 7.0
• HP Insight Control virtual machine management 7.0
• The source code for the open source products integrated with Insight Control for Linux
• A file named README.mht in the HP directory that describes how to obtain the Insight Control
for Linux documentation set and the documentation for related products.
1.1.2 How to obtain the ISO image
The Insight Control for Linux 7.0 ISO image is available for download from the HP Software Depot
home page for Insight Control for Linux:
http://software.hp.com
1.1.3 Software availability in native languages
The Insight Control for Linux product is available only in the US English language.
1.2 Update recommendation
Routine
This release provides a routine update of the software.
1.3 Supersedes
This release supersedes HP Insight Control for Linux Version 6.3.
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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