HP ProLiant Agentless Management Pack (v 3.2) for Microsoft System Center User Guide

1 Overview
This guide is designed for system administrators who use the HP ProLiant Agentless Management
Pack for out-of-band management of HP ProLiant servers in a Microsoft System Center environment.
You should be familiar with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
Because of the potential risk of data loss, only individuals who are experienced with using this
software should implement the procedures described in this guide. This guide supplements the
Microsoft System Center user documentation.
Introduction
The HP ProLiant Agentless Management Pack for System Center complements and extends
Operations Manager. This management pack uses the out-of-band management capabilities of
iLO Management Engine or iLO Management Engine with Agentless Monitoring Service (AMS) to
add alert processing, state monitoring, and hardware resource lifecycle management for HP
Agentless servers.
Agentless Management has the following purposes and features:
• Collects information about the server hardware.
• Is a health monitoring system embedded in the server iLO hardware.
• Does not depend on the operating system of the server.
• Allows you to manage servers out-of-band for increased security and stability.
• Manages servers without the complexity of management agents.
• Allows you to manage servers that do not have an operating system.
• Allows you to monitor events that occur before the operating system is loaded.
• Allows you to manage servers running operating system software versions that are not supported
by other HP management packs. For example, servers running VMware ESXi 4.x or 5.0 are
not supported for in-band management by the HP ProLiant VMware Management Pack, but
they are supported for out-of-band management using the HP ProLiant Agentless Management
Pack.
Agentless Monitoring Service (AMS), an optional product, has the following purposes and features:
• Expands the scope of Agentless Management by routing the OS management information
and alerting to the iLO Management Engine
• Is loaded into the operating system
• Is dependent on the operating system
NOTE: HP agentless out-of-band monitoring is distinct from the agentless capabilities provided
by Microsoft System Center.
This management pack provides user discovery of servers, predefined views, monitors, event
processing rules, and tasks. These features enable administrators to streamline IT operations and
ensure increased systems availability by monitoring HP hardware platforms through a common
management console.
This management pack enables user configuration, monitoring, and automatic grouping of the
servers into a common view. Default monitoring highlights the state of HP hardware subsystems
and components, and presents a consolidated view of the server status.
Complete information on supported hardware and software is included in the HP SCOM
Management Packs User Guide.
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