HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview

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HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless

Management overview

Technology brief

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 2

Overview of HP Agentless Management ................................................................................................. 2

Using traditional OS-based management software ................................................................................... 4

Using HP Agentless Management .......................................................................................................... 5

Configuration options ........................................................................................................................... 6

Configuring HP SIM 7.0 for HP Agentless Management ........................................................................... 7

Management server requirements ....................................................................................................... 7

Configuring HP Agentless Management manually ................................................................................ 7

Information provided by Agentless Management and Insight Management Agents ...................................... 8

Using a combination of HP Agentless Management, SNMP Agents, and WBEM providers ........................... 9

Installing the HP Agentless Management Service ................................................................................... 10

HP Intelligent Provisioning ............................................................................................................... 10

HP SIM 7.0 Configure and Repair Agents options .............................................................................. 11

HP SIM 7.0 Managed System Setup Wizard ..................................................................................... 12

Starting and stopping the HP Agentless Management Service ................................................................. 13

Windows environments ................................................................................................................... 13

Linux environments ......................................................................................................................... 13

VMware environments .................................................................................................................... 14

Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 14

For more information .......................................................................................................................... 15

Summary of content (15 pages)

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HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview Technology brief Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Overview of HP Agentless Management ................................................................................................. 2 Using traditional OS-based management software ...................................................................................
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Introduction Until now, HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) could only manage host systems using traditional management solutions that require SNMP Agents or WBEM (WMI) Providers. Now, HP SIM 7.0 lets you take advantage of the new HP Agentless Management features that are part of ProLiant Gen8 servers.
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Figure 1: A complete HP Agentless Management solution is illustrated. The HP Agentless Management solution brings several benefits, including: • Easy setup—After using either the iLO 4 GUI or the HP Scripting Toolkit to configure the SNMP communication parameters and trap destination, you can start monitoring core hardware.
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Using traditional OS-based management software Traditionally, OS-based management required software to run on the OS. The software plugs into the appropriate service providing SNMP, WMI, or WBEM capabilities in the OS. The software collects server-specific, OS-specific, and industry-standard data. The service bundles the data and makes it available to either the System Management Homepage or a remote management application, such as HP SIM.
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Using HP Agentless Management ProLiant Gen8 servers are capable of running HP Agentless Management through the iLO Management Engine. With HP Agentless Management, SNMP runs on the iLO Management Engine, not on the host OS (see Figure 3). Figure 3: The iLO Management Engine includes the core instrumentation logic to monitor hardware and the embedded HP Agentless Management with its SNMP stack.
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Since the iLO Management Engine handles the management, HP SIM can discover the IP address of the iLO Management Engine and its associated host server without requiring OS-based software (see Figure 4). When using HP Agentless Management without installing the HP Agentless Management Service or any other OS-based software, HP SIM communicates with iLO to get the data and alerts for the following core hardware subsystems: • Processor • Memory • Storage • Power • Thermal conditions Figure 4: HP SIM 7.
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Configuring HP SIM 7.0 for HP Agentless Management If you configure HP Agentless Management through the iLO 4 GUI, HP SIM receives alerts from the iLO Management Engine. Because of the advantages that HP Agentless Management offers, this is the preferred configuration. It eliminates any potential for duplicate information from the managed server. To manage a ProLiant Gen8 server that is using HP Agentless Management, your management server must use HP SIM 7.0.
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Figure 5: Configure SNMP parameters for HP SIM 7.0 to manage a ProLiant Gen8 server using HP Agentless Management. Information provided by Agentless Management and Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management and the HP Agentless Management Service provide data for hardware and basic OS monitoring. Some environments have complex management and alerting requirements. These situations will still require the use of the SNMP Agents or WBEM Providers.
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Component Storage Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management without HP Agentless Management Service HP Agentless Management with HP Agentless Management Service • Smart Array • Smart Array • Smart Array • HBA • SMART Drive Monitoring • HBA • Internal hard drives attached to Smart Array • SMART Drive Monitoring • MAC addresses for embedded NICs • Standup and embedded Fibre Channel and iSCSI • SMART Drive Monitoring • Tape • Internal hard drives attached to Smart Array • External stor
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Installing the HP Agentless Management Service The HP Management Service expands monitoring from core hardware components to include applications and the OS. You have three options for installing the HP Agentless Management Service: • HP Intelligent Provisioning • HP SIM Configure and Repair Agents options • HP SIM Managed System Setup Wizard For details on how to use HP Intelligent Provisioning or HP SIM 7.0, see the product user guide.
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HP SIM 7.0 Configure and Repair Agents options Through the Configure or Repair Agents options, you can remotely install the HP Agentless Management Service from the HP SIM server (see Figure 9). To do so, choose to the Install the HP Agentless Management Service or the Linux PSP or ESX Agents option. You cannot install both. Figure 9: You can choose to install the Agentless Management Service from the Configure or Repair Agents screen.
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HP SIM 7.0 Managed System Setup Wizard Through the Managed System Setup Wizard options, you can remotely install the HP Agentless Management Service from the HP SIM server (see Figure 10). To do so, select Agentless Management Service. Figure 10: You can choose to install the Agentless Management Service from the Managed System Setup Wizard screen (Windows use case illustrated).
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Starting and stopping the HP Agentless Management Service You can stop, start, or check the status of the HP Agentless Management Service through applets or commands on your server. Windows environments To start or stop the HP Agentless Management Service, use the Windows Services applet (see Figure 11). Figure 11: You can start or stop the HP Agentless Management Service in the Windows Services applet.
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VMware environments To start or stop Agentless Management Service, use the command appropriate for your environment: • VMware ESX 4.1U2 Classic: – /etc/init.d/hp-ams [start | stop | restart | status] • VMware ESXi 4.1U2: – /usr/sbin/hp-ams.sh [start | stop | restart | status] • VMware ESXi 5.x: – /etc/init.d/hp-ams.sh [start | stop | restart | status] (see Figure 14) Figure 14: You can stop the HP Agentless Management Service using the /etc/init.d/hp-ams.
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For more information Visit the URLs listed below if you need additional information. Resource description Web address “HP iLO Management Engine technologies” technology brief http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/Sup portManual/c03207602/c03207602.pdf iLO user documentation www.hp.com/go/ilo/docs HP SIM documentation http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/ management/hpsim/infolibrary.html Send comments about this paper to TechCom@HP.com Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.