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

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,
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agents,
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Monitor
Insight Control gives you a complete picture of the BladeSystem infrastructure from pe
rformance to
power and everything in between.
HP
SIM
sits at the heart of Insight Control to do inventory, health
monitoring, and fault management.
The HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager gives a photo
-
realistic
view of racks and enclosures, showing all comp
onents of the BladeSystem infrastructure contained
within, with information from applications such as HP Performance Management Pack
(PMP)
for CPU,
memory
,
and network utilization or HP Insight Power Manager
(IPM)
for power utilization.
To get
more detail
on the server information shown in the central management console of HP SIM, use one
click to launch the System Management Homepage
(SMH)
for the individual server
.
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP SIM is a management platform architected as a central manage
ment server
(CMS)
managing the
hardware and virtual infrastructure aspects of servers and storage devices.
Its automatic discovery,
inventory, and health monitoring features provide the information that the other Insight Control
applications utilize to man
age HP BladeSystem servers.
The automatic event management feature of
HP SIM enables email and pager notifications when an alert is received, as well as scripted
responses.
All of the other Insight Control components integrate with HP SIM to yield a well
-
r
ounded
view of the IT infrastructure from a browser
-
based interface.
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager displays HP BladeSystem racks and enclosures in a photo
-
realistic manner, overlaid with status icons and popup informat
ion windows to make it easy to
manage your
server
blades.
The rack view shows extensive power and thermal information. Icons and
links make more information on health, events
,
or inventory of the individual blades available with a
single
mouse click
.
HP Bl
adeSystem Integrated Manager is built into HP
SIM
.
HP
Performance Management Pack
PMP is an integrated performance management solution that detects and analyzes hardware
bottlenecks on HP ProLiant servers, select HP Integrity servers
,
and HP Modular Smart
Array shared
storage devices.
PMP operates in
conjunction
with HP SIM.
No
additional
software installation on the monitored
servers is required
. Information is made available
through
the Insight Management Agents
, which are
used by many of the components
of Insight Control, such as HP SIM and Virtual Machine
Management Pack
(VMM)
.
PMP analyzes performance information to determine if there is a building
or existing performance bottleneck issue.
This information can be
interactively display
ed,
log
ged to
a
d
atabase for later analysis or reporting, and
configured to send
proactive notification using the
HP
SIM
notification mechanism.
System Management Homepage
HP System Management Homepage is a web
-
based interface that consolidates and simplifies the
manageme
nt of individual HP ProLiant and HP Integrity servers.
By aggregating data from HP Insight
Management Agents and other management tools, System Management Homepage provides a
secure and intuitive interface to review in
-
depth hardware configuration and stat
us data, performance
metrics, system thresholds
,
and software version control information. System Management Homepage
can also be used to access the HP Integrated Lights
-
Out Management processor on ProLiant and
Integrity servers as well as the
HP
Onboard A
dministrator
(OA)
of the BladeSystem enclosure.