HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

HP Insight Remote
Support Advanced
The HP Insight Remote Support Advanced provides proactive remote monitoring, diagnostics,
and troubleshooting to help improve the availability of HP-supported servers and storage devices
in your data center. The Insight Remote Support Advanced reduces cost and complexity in support
of systems and devices. The Insight Remote Support Advanced securely communicates incident
information through your firewall and/or Web proxy to the HP Support Center for reactive support.
Additionally, based on your support agreement, system information can be collected for proactive
analysis and services.
rack A set of components cabled together to communicate between themselves. A rack is a container
for an enclosure.
Red Hat Package
Manager (RPM)
The Red Hat Package Manager is a powerful package manager that can be used to build, install,
query, verify, update, and uninstall individual software packages. A package consists of an
archive of files and package information, including name, version, and description.
remote wakeup Sometimes referred to as Wake-On-LAN (WOL). The remote powering up of a system through
its resident WOL network card, provided that the system has been enabled to be so awakened
using the ROM or F10 Setup.
This is a capability on which HP SIM relies to turn on the systems for scheduled Software Updates
or Replicate Agent Settings.
remove all disk
thresholds
A task provided by HP SIM to remove disk thresholds for systems in an associated collection. This
task only removes disk thresholds that were set by HP SIM or by browsing directly to the Web
Agent. Any thresholds set by HP SIM for Windows 32, including disk thresholds, are not removed
by this task.
Replicate Agent
Settings
A tool that can be used to copy web-based agent settings to a group of systems.
repository A directory containing ProLiant Support Pack or Integrity Support Packs and Smart Components.
Resource Partition A subset of the resources owned by an operating system instance. The use of those resources is
controlled through technologies such as the Fair Share Scheduler, pSets, and Memory Resource
Groups.
A resource partition also has a set of processes associated with it, and only those processes can
use the resources within the resource partition. Policies established by tools such as Process
Resource Manager (PRM), Workload Manager (WLM), or Global Workload Manager (gWLM)
control how resources are allocated to the set of resource partitions within an operating system
instance.
resource pool A group of physical and virtual resources managed by HP Virtual Server Environment. An
administrator controls resource utilization by allowing users access to resource pools.
role See toolbox.
rule set Conditions, policies, or criteria applied to system information to determine what it is.
S
HP System
Management
Homepage (SMH)
An integrated piece of software used by the HP suite of HP Web-enabled System Management
Software to communicate over HTTP and HTTPS. It provides a uniform set of functionality and
security to HP Web-enabled System Management Software.
SAN A storage area network (SAN) is a network (or subnetwork) that connects data storage devices
with associated data servers. A storage area network is typically part of an overall network of
computing resources.
search criteria A set of variables (information) used to define a requested subset of information from the HP SIM
database.
Secure HTTP
(HTTPS)
An extension to the HTTP protocol that supports sending data securely over the web.
Secure Shell (SSH) A program to log in to another system over a network and execute commands on that system. It
also enables you to move files from one system to another, and it provides authentication and
secure communications over insecure channels.
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