HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview
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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 7.0 can discover a bare-metal server.
After HP SIM 7.0 discovers a bare metal ProLiant Gen8 server, we recommended using one of the
following three methods to configure HP Agentless Management:
• Use HP Intelligent Provisioning, Service Pack for ProLiant, or the VMware offline bundles and custom
image to configure the ProLiant server with the HP Agentless Management Service.
• Use the HP Scripting tool kit [typically through a Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) or HP ProLiant
iLO Embedded Virtual Media environment] to configure the iLO user accounts, apply an optional
iLO license, and configure the SNMP parameters.
• Use the iLO 4 GUI or XML scripting interface to configure an individual iLO’s parameters.
Configuration options
Through the iLO 4 GUI, you can enable either HP Agentless Management or SNMP Pass-thru. When
HP SIM 7.0 discovers a ProLiant Gen8 server, it looks to see whether HP Agentless Management or
SNMP Pass-thru is enabled. This setting determines where HP SIM gets management data.
Using the information in the following sections, you can choose what configuration is best for your
environment:
• HP Agentless Management: the recommended configuration
• SNMP Pass-thru: for management environments requiring SNMP Agents(not available when
Agentless Management is in use)
• HP Agentless Management and SNMP Agents or WBEM Providers: not a recommended
configuration