HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Getting Started Guide

Removing unneeded agent software
If you have upgraded from a previous version of HP Matrix Operating Environment (formerly known
as HP Insight Dynamics or VSE Management Software), there may be agents installed on some of
your managed systems that are no longer needed. This will occur on managed systems that
previously used the Utilization Provider for data collection and are now configured for agentless
or native data collection. The following types of systems are affected:
• Integrity Linux or x86 Linux managed systems. In releases prior to version 6.0, these systems
needed the Utilization Provider for data collection. In the current release, these systems will
be configured to use agentless data collection. The Utilization Provider is not supported by
Matrix Operating Environment on Linux managed systems.
• Microsoft Windows managed systems, but only if you are using a CMS that is also running
Microsoft Windows (agentless data collection from Windows systems is not supported on an
HP-UX CMS).
In these cases, when you use the Insight managed system setup wizard to configure the system,
the following message will be displayed:
Agentless data collection is not configured; it will be configured.
An HP Utilization Provider has been detected; it will not be used
for data collection.
You should remove any sub-OS workloads defined on this system.
NOTE:
Any Windows sub-OS workloads on previous versions where this configuration was supported are
automatically removed during the upgrade to HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2.
You may choose to remove the Utilization Provider from the affected systems after they have been
configured for agentless data collection.
IMPORTANT: Even though Matrix OE will no longer use the Utilization Provider for data collection,
there may be other software installed on the system that still uses it (for example, HP Insight Control
power management). Do not remove the agent if it is still in use.
Procedure 6 Remove the Utilization Provider from a Windows Server 2003 system
1. From Control Panel, select Add or Remove Programs.
2. Select “HP WMI Util Provider v1.8.1.1” (or the current installed version).
3. Click Remove.
Procedure 7 Remove the Utilization Provider from a Windows Server 2008 system
1. From Control Panel, select Program and Features.
2. Select “HP WMI Util Provider v1.8.1.1” (or the current installed version).
3. Click Uninstall.
Procedure 8 Remove the Utilization Provider from a Linux system
1. Open a command shell with root privileges.
2. Execute the following command:
rpm -e hp-utilprovider
For more information about agentless data collection, see the section “Comparison of agentless
and UP data collection” in the HP Capacity Advisor User Guide.
Using Matrix OE visualization
Matrix OE visualization provides features that let you visualize and manage physical and virtual
servers discovered and licensed for use within the Matrix Operating Environment. Using
visualization, you can:
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