Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation and HP Virtual Server Environment

Note that all of these management tools are fully integrated into HP Virtualization Manager and HP

SIM to provide seamless and in-context management of HP VSE.

Once virtual partitions or virtual machines are configured and (optionally) clustered, the operating

systems can be installed directly from media or using the respective network installation tools. For HP

Integrity or HP 9000 servers, these installation tools include Ignite-UX for HP-UX 11i, Rapid

Deployment Pack for Windows and Linux on Integrity, Integrity RHES Anaconda, Integrity SLES YaST,

and Integrity Windows Server ADS.

Application Installation

The system administrator is almost finished with platform setup. All that remains is to install the

application. SA provisioning automates the time-consuming process of installing software on managed

servers. A software policy encapsulates all of the steps necessary to install, configure, and start

running an application. The policy might include other policies, such as those for patch and

application configuration, in addition to the information necessary to install an application package.

Wizards in SA make it easy to create software policies for each application in an IT environment.

To apply software policies, the newly created servers must be discovered by SA and must have the

SA agent installed. Once they appear as SA “managed systems,” one or more software policies can

be attached to them, as shown in Figure 6. Policies can be assigned directly to individual servers or

to groups of servers. Remediation is the step during which SA compares what is specified in the

software policy with what is installed on the associated system, and brings the system into compliance

with the policy by installing software or setting configuration values as necessary. Bringing the system

into compliance can be done either when the policy is first attached or scheduled for a later time. To

remove software, detach the policy from the servers and remediate again.

If rules are configured to automatically assign servers to customers and facilities by IP address, then

the policies associated with those customers or facilities are automatically attached to the new servers.

Installing the applications is as easy as viewing the systems in the Compliance Dashboard and then

clicking Remediate . . ..

Figure 6: SA Install Software Screen