HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide Second Edition (Linux Release) (T4283-96056, November 2006)

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 1
1Overview
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About This Product” on page 1
• ”Suggested Topics for First-Time Users” on page 4
• ”Product Components” on page 4
• ”About the User Interface on the SE Home Page” on page 6
• ”Installing the Java Plug-in” on page 11
• ”Installing the Software Security Certificate” on page 12
• ”Stopping the Service for the Management Server” on page 15
About This Product
IMPORTANT: If you access HP Systems Insight Manager through HTTP over SSL (HTTPS), you must
provide the full DNS name for the host to be able to access HP Storage Essentials. For example, you
could access HP Systems Insight Manager by using
https://mycomputer.domainname.com:50000, but you could not use
https://mycomputer:50000. For non-secure connections (HTTP), the full DNS name does not need
to be provided.
HP Storage Essentials is a family of open, standards-built SAN management and storage resource
management (SRM) solutions that enable you to visualize, monitor, report on, provision, and
manage your heterogeneous storage environment with unprecedented simplicity and speed.
Storage Essentials is integrated throughout HP Systems Insight Manager. You can determine where
Storage Essentials begins by looking at the menus. Whenever a menu item displays “Storage
Essentials,” it is a gateway into Storage Essentials. For example, assume you selected Tasks &
Logs > View Storage Essentials Logs. You have selected to view the logs for Discovery Data
Collection in Storage Essentials, not in HP Systems Insight Manager. When you select Tools >