HP OneView 1.05 User Guide

Isolated management network
The appliance architecture is designed to separate the management traffic from the production
network, which increases reliability of the overall solution. For example, your data center resources
remain operational even in the unlikely event of an appliance outage.
Automatic configuration for monitoring
When you add resources to the appliance, they are automatically configured for monitoring, and
the appliance is automatically registered to receive SNMP traps. You can monitor resources
immediately without performing additional configuration or discovery steps.
Agentless and out-of-band management
All monitoring and management of HP ProLiant Gen8 (or later) servers is agentless and out-of-band
for increased security and reliability. For these servers:
• There are no agents to monitor or update.
• The appliance does not require open SNMP ports on the host operating system.
• The appliance does not require an operating system on the host, which frees memory and
processor resources on the host for use by server applications, and enables you to manage
servers that have no host operating system installed.
Management from other platforms using the REST APIs and the SCMB
The REST APIs and the SCMB (State-Change Message Bus) also enable you to monitor the HP
OneView environment from other management platforms. For more information about the SCMB,
see “Using the State-Change Message Bus (SCMB)” (page 203).
Monitoring the environment and responding to issues
Features for monitoring the environment and responding to issues include the following:
• The “Dashboard screen” (page 193), which displays a summary view of data center capacity
and health information
• The “Activity screen” (page 189), which displays and enables you to filter all system tasks and
alerts
• Data center environmental management (page 22)
• Resource utilization monitoring (page 22)
• Activity and health management (page 22)
• Hardware and firmware inventory information (page 23)
1.4 Monitoring and response features 21