Using HP Insight Software from a Highly Available Central Management Server with Microsoft Cluster Service

Abstract

This white paper is intended to assist IT professionals in installing HP Insight software from the HP

Insight Control Management DVD v2.30 on a Microsoft® Windows®-based Central Management

Server (CMS) to create a highly available environment. The CMS on ProLiant may be configured in a

Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) implementation on two nodes. Using Windows Server 2003

Enterprise Edition with HP Insight software can be a simple way of achieving redundancy,

availability, load balancing, and failover capability from this powerful management software.

Introduction

Insight Control Management (ICM) DVD provides an integrated installer to quickly and accurately

deploy, configure, integrate, and update HP Insight software suites and individual management

products. Refer to Appendix B for an overview of the Insight Dynamics – VSE and Insight Control

Environment suites. The individual components delivered with ICM v2.30 include:

 Insight Control Management Integrated Installer—A wizard-based installer used to simplify the

installation, configuration, and integration of HP Insight software.

 HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)—The central management server (CMS) that provides unified

foundation management services for HP servers, storage, and network resources from a single

console. HP SIM delivers centralized fault, configuration, inventory, performance management,

warranty details, automated service call initiation and troubleshooting information. HP SIM is built

according to industry standards to manage HP and non-HP infrastructure resources.

 Extensions for HP SIM on Microsoft Windows—A software package that adds menus to HP SIM that

access server management tools for HP-UX and Linux. The server management tools run on HP-UX

and Linux managed systems, and include HP GlancePlus and HP-UX tools such as Ignite-UX,

Software Distributor UX, HP-UX configuration tools, and HP-UX Workload Manager. You license HP-

UX and Linux server management tools separately (for example, as part of an HP-UX 11i operating

environment).

 HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager—Graphical user interface (GUI) used to discover, monitor,

and administer HP BladeSystem enclosures and managed components, including servers (ProLiant

and Integrity), storage, power, and cooling. This component is installed with HP SIM.

 HP Insight Power Manager (IPM) —Power management application that extends HP SIM with

power consumption and thermal output monitoring to optimize data center power and cooling.

Includes power regulation policies for groups of HP ProLiant servers. This component is installed

with HP SIM.

 HP Service Essentials Remote Support Pack—Remote support tool that provides remote monitoring to

supplement local monitoring of HP SIM. It also provides real time hardware event monitoring and

secure event submission to HP Support to help identify and prevent potentially critical problems on

HP ProLiant servers, Linux based Integrity servers, and their associated internal devices.

 HP Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP)—Tool that configures and deploys multiple servers quickly and

predictably in an unattended fashion using scripts and system images. Includes predefined scripts to

configure HP server hardware and deploy operating systems for Windows and Linux platforms.

 HP Insight Control Management Services—Management services that facilitate component

integration and update. These services simplify assignment of Insight Control licenses to servers

managed by HP SIM and identification of software updates.

 HP Insight Control Environment Advisor—Tool that automatically verifies the target platform for

compliance with installation prerequisites. The advisor runs a series of tests on the server and

identifies issues that might affect the Insight Control suite installation or operation.

 HP Performance Management Pack (PMP)—Performance and monitoring tool that enables HP SIM

to proactively detect, analyze, and report performance bottlenecks on HP ProLiant and Integrity