HP Insight Control 7.3 Update 1 Getting Started Guide

Contents
1 Getting started with HP Insight Control..........................................................5
How to use this guide................................................................................................................5
Insight Control integration with HP SIM........................................................................................5
Ensure success by running the Insight Management Advisor first.................................................5
Alternative consoles..............................................................................................................6
Insight Control features and capabilities.......................................................................................6
Integrated security features.........................................................................................................7
Open source products included with Insight Control......................................................................8
Accessing and launching Insight Control features..........................................................................8
2 Accessing HP Systems Insight Manager.........................................................9
Using the HP SIM quick launch feature........................................................................................9
Running and viewing task results from the HP SIM management console..........................................9
CMS Reconfigure Tool.............................................................................................................10
Obtaining HP Insight Control documentation..............................................................................10
3 Verifying your software and hardware environment with the Insight Management
Advisor......................................................................................................11
Using Insight Management Advisor to obtain diagnostic information.............................................11
Using the Insight Management Advisor filtering capability............................................................11
Using test results to take corrective action...................................................................................11
Obtaining Insight Management Advisor documentation...............................................................12
4 Using the HP Insight managed system setup wizard.......................................13
Prerequisites to running the Insight managed system setup wizard.................................................13
Obtaining Insight managed system setup wizard documentation...................................................13
5 Adding and applying licenses....................................................................14
Licensing prerequisites.............................................................................................................14
Licenses required for Insight Control..........................................................................................14
Adding an Insight Control license.............................................................................................14
Applying an Insight Control license to the servers you want to manage..........................................15
Adding an iLO license key.......................................................................................................15
Insight Control server provisioning licenses.................................................................................15
Adding and applying licenses for Insight Control server deployment..............................................16
Licensing information on the World Wide Web..........................................................................16
6 Provisioning operating systems and virtualization software to managed
systems......................................................................................................17
Insight Control server provisioning.............................................................................................17
Server provisioning overview...............................................................................................17
Obtaining server provisioning software.................................................................................17
Installing and administering server provisioning.....................................................................17
Insight Control server deployment.............................................................................................17
Launching server deployment...............................................................................................18
The Deployment Server Console...........................................................................................18
Obtaining server deployment documentation.........................................................................18
7 Managing a virtual machine environment....................................................19
Launching virtual machine management features.........................................................................19
Obtaining virtual machine management documentation...............................................................20
8 Optimizing server power consumption and cooling.......................................21
Launching power management features.....................................................................................21
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