Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 in a smaller Windows environment

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2
10 | March, 2013
Managing HP ProLiant 100
series servers
The HP ProLiant 100 series servers only support the HP Insight Management WBEM Provider; the
HP Insight Management Agent is not supported. Additionally, health monitoring and alerting are
more limited with the ProLiant 100 series servers than with the ProLiant 300 series and later.
You can view the following information:
ROM-based SMBIOS tables populated by the ROM during Power-On Self Test (POST)
Operating system-based information including MAC addresses, IP addresses, domain,
operating system version and serial number, last boot time, current running processes,
and disk information
Standard operating system driver information including network and logical and physical
drive storage (from the operating system point of view)
Status polling of ProLiant 100 series servers
Managing storage
Systems Insight Manager has been significantly upgraded to manage storage devices that it
supports through the SMI-S standards-based interface. SMI-S, complemented with SNMP, enables
Systems Insight Manager to detect and configure storage systems including Fibre Channel-based
storage arrays and tape libraries, hosts with host bus adapters (HBAs), and Fibre Channel
switches. Storage devices and Fibre Channel infrastructure devices are discovered, events are
monitored, and data is gathered for proactive management and asset reporting.
Specific storage data collection includes vendor, model, device status, array capacity, disk RAID
type, port information, LUN information, firmware level, network addresses, part numbers, and
component serial IDs.
Systems Insight Manager, in conjunction with the HP Insight Management Agents, discovers and
monitors Modular Smart Array (MSA) series storage attached to ProLiant servers. Systems Insight
Manager tracks physical and logical configurations and receives pre-failure alerts in a manner
consistent with internal storage resources. Systems Insight Manager also discovers and launches
Command View EVA and Command View XP storage arrays and launches the array management
software running on hosts managed by Systems Insight Manager.
The HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) integrates seamlessly with
Systems Insight Manager to provide hardware bottleneck analysis for MSA storage. PMP provides
the required tools to receive proactive notification of developing bottleneck conditions, and it
debugs existing performance issues on MSA500/MSA1000 shared storage devices.