HP Insight Management 7.3 Getting Started Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Insight Management 7.3 Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction to HP Insight Management
- 2 HP Insight Management component descriptions
- 3 Getting started
- 4 Insight Management documentation
- Insight Management documentation on the World Wide Web
- Documentation website quick reference
- QuickSpecs
- Online help
- Insight Management documentation titles
- Systems Insight management documentation titles
- Insight Control documentation titles
- Matrix Operating Environment documentation titles
- HP Insight Remote Support documentation titles
- HP iLO and iLO4 documentation titles
- 5 Support and other resources
- Information to collect before contacting HP
- How to contact HP
- Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components
- Registering for software technical support and update service
- HP authorized resellers
- New and changed information in this edition
- Related information
- Typographic conventions
- 6 Documentation feedback
- Index
1 Introduction to HP Insight Management
This chapter provides an overview of HP Insight Management and summarizes the software that
is delivered on the Insight Management distribution media.
Subsequent chapters in this document provide the following information:
• Descriptions of the Insight Management components to help you decide which software offers
the features you need to efficiently run and manage your hardware environment
• How to get started with Insight Management by obtaining the distribution media, redeeming
license keys , and obtaining and using the Insight Management installation documentation
• Descriptions of all documents in the Insight Management documentation set as well how to
view or download the documentation from the Internet
Insight Management overview
To help you create the best-run server infrastructures, HP developed Insight Management, a
complementary set of software components that enable you to efficiently manage and monitor your
HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem hardware infrastructure.
Insight Management manages servers running supported versions of Windows, Linux, and HP-UX
operating systems, as well as those running hypervisor technologies from vendors such as HP,
VMware, and Microsoft.
Insight Management components are designed to address the most difficult issues encountered by
IT organizations: cost, time, energy, and change. With flexible and integrated software that unifies
the management of hardware resources and scales to businesses of all sizes, Insight Management
enables you to:
• Take control of your time by simplifying management of HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem
infrastructures
• Reduce risk by identifying and resolving issues faster
• Drive business growth through flexible infrastructure deployment and optimization
• Lower cost through more efficient use of staff and facilities
Summary of Insight Management components
Insight Management components are grouped into several categories. Within each category are
software components and features that have been integrated to work together to provide
comprehensive management capabilities for your server infrastructure and continuous analysis and
optimization of your server environment.
Table 1 lists the software distributed on HP Insight Management DVD #1 and ISO file #1.
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