A.05.70 HP Insight Remote Support Advanced Service Brief: Read Before Installing (October 2011, 5900-1724)

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HP Insight Remote Support Advanced

A.05.70 Service Brief

Read Before Installing

Contents

Overview .............................................................................................................................................................. 3

Communication .................................................................................................................................................... 3

Managed Systems Configuration ......................................................................................................................... 4

Validation .............................................................................................................................................................. 8

Required Reading and Useful References ........................................................................................................... 8

Reference number: 5900-1724

Fifth edition: October 2011

Summary of content (8 pages)

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HP Insight Remote Support Advanced A.05.70 Service Brief Read Before Installing Contents Overview .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Communication .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Managed Systems Configuration .........................................................
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Overview For a successful installation of the Insight Remote Support Advanced solution you must read the relevant documentation and follow the instructions. This service brief highlights critical processes necessary for a successful installation. Throughout this document you will see references to HP Insight Remote Support Advanced documentation, which is available at: http://www.hp.com/go/insightremoteadvanced-docs.
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Managed Systems Configuration After you understand (and in some cases select) your communication for your Managed Systems to communicate with the CMS, you must then configure the Managed Systems accordingly. Use the processes documented in the specific chapters for your Managed System type in the HP Insight Remote Support Advanced Managed Systems Configuration Guide to configure your Managed Systems to meet the configuration requirements outlined below.
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Managed System Configuration Requirements It is extremely important that you read the relevant Managed Systems chapter in the Insight Remote Support Advanced Managed Systems Configuration Guide to correctly configure Insight Remote Support.
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Table 1 Required Managed System Communication Protocols and Components for Insight RSA Services Hardware Platform Required Protocols and Components Notes Integrity Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator WBEM and WS-Man and HTTPS Discovery uses WS-Man and collections use HTTPS. The OA is managed using WS-Man, but the Superdome 2 partitions are managed using WBEM. See the “Integrity Superdome 2 Server Configuration” chapter in the Managed Systems Configuration Guide.
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Table 1 Required Managed System Communication Protocols and Components for Insight RSA Services Hardware Platform Required Protocols and Components Notes Tape Libraries SNMP See the “Tape Library Configuration” chapter in the Managed Systems Configuration Guide. SAN Switches SNMP Configuration collections are not available for some switch models except when they are part of a SAN collection. (See Table 2.) See the “SAN Switch Configuration” chapter in the Managed Systems Configuration Guide.
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Table 2 Required Managed System Communication Protocols and Components for SAN Services Devices Hardware Platform Required Protocols and Components Notes Switches MCData SNMPv1 Brocade Telnet, SSH password QLogic SNMPv1 Cisco SNMPv1 ProCurve SSH Validation After you have installed HP Insight Remote Support Advanced and completely configured both the CMS and your Managed Systems to communicate with each other (as directed in the HP Insight Remote Support Advanced Central Management Server Confi