HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.4.0-00 Administrator Guide (web) (TB581-96325, December 2012)

Table Of Contents
Prerequisites for virtualization servers, page 46
Prerequisites for mainframe hosts, page 53
Host management software supported by Device Manager
Device Manager centrally manages hosts by collecting information from them via the host management
software.
Table 5 Host management software supported by Device Manager
Mainframe host
Open host
Host management software
Virtualization
server
Virtual machineNormal host
N
Y
#2
YY
Host Data Collector
#1
NNYY
Device Manager agent
#1
NYNNvMA
YNNNP9000 mainframe agent
Legend:
Y: Supported
N: Not supported
#1:
If both Host Data Collector and the Device Manager agent manage information about normal
hosts or virtual machines, the Device Manager GUI or CLI uses the information acquired by the
Device Manager agent.
#2:
Host Data Collector installed in Windows can manage virtualization servers, but Host Data Col-
lector installed in Solaris or Linux cannot manage them.
With Host Data Collector:
Host Data Collector can manage normal hosts, virtual machines, and virtualization servers.
Network hosts that are found from the Device Manager GUI are registered in Device Manager.
With Device Manager agent:
The Device Manager agent can manage normal hosts and virtual machines.
When the Device Manager agent is installed on a host, the host is registered in Device Manager.
With vMA:
vMA can manage virtualization servers.
Virtualization servers that are managed by vMA and found from the Device Manager GUI or CLI
are registered in Device Manager.
Note that vMA can manage only VMware ESX 4.x virtualization servers.
With P9000 mainframe agent:
The P9000 mainframe agent can manage mainframe hosts.
Using the Device Manager CLI, register both the mainframe hosts that you want to manage and
P9000 mainframe agent which you will use to manage those hosts, in Device Manager.
System configuration and requirements36