HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP BladeSystem servers (487616-001, February 2008)

system to
both local and SAN
-
based boot drives. Applications are installed consistently
through
Server Automation software policies.
Planning and
analysis
During the Planning and Analysis phase, the system administrator
must
understand the hardware,
software
,
and p
erformance characteristics of the current systems.
The inventory reports in HP SIM
show detailed information about the hardware in use
;
PMP
indicates the historical performance of
CPU,
m
emory
;
and
input and output
and HP Server Automation shows what softwa
re is installed on
the systems.
Based on this data, the system administrator can develop a consolidation plan.
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP
SIM
capabilities in
clude:
Health Monitoring, Event Notification, Distributed Task Execution
,
and
Inventory.
In thi
s example, the company uses HP SIM to gather hardware inventory information.
Standard and custom inventory reports show data such as server model, operating system, processor
type and speed, amount and type of memory, network interfaces, logical drive spac
e usage
,
and
physical drive information (
Figure
10
).
These reports help the system administrator understand the
current characteristics of the systems.
Figure
10
:
HP SIM Sample Inventory R
eport