Owner's manual

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................5
Introduction..............................................................................................................................5
HP Device Monitor Service, HP Device Monitor Console, and this management pack........................5
2 Using this management pack.......................................................................6
Using the Monitoring view.........................................................................................................6
Viewing all HP ProLiant servers that run supported versions of VMware operating system software.......7
Identifying a failed subsystem.....................................................................................................8
Viewing and analyzing alerts.....................................................................................................8
Launching the HP Device Monitor Console...................................................................................9
Adding a server.......................................................................................................................9
Updating a managed server......................................................................................................9
Removing a managed server......................................................................................................9
Launching HP Integrated Lights-Out for a failed subsystem..............................................................9
Launching the HP System Management Homepage task.................................................................9
Using Run As profiles..............................................................................................................10
3 More about this management pack.............................................................11
Architecture...........................................................................................................................11
This management pack depends on other management packs.................................................11
This management pack uses the DMS...................................................................................11
Views....................................................................................................................................11
Active Alerts view...............................................................................................................12
Server State view...............................................................................................................13
Group Diagram view..........................................................................................................14
Predefined tasks.....................................................................................................................14
Security for HP tasks...........................................................................................................14
Classes.................................................................................................................................15
Groups..................................................................................................................................17
Discovery rules.......................................................................................................................17
Health monitors......................................................................................................................18
Propagation monitors..............................................................................................................18
Diagnostic scripts....................................................................................................................19
4 Events.....................................................................................................20
Base hardware events.............................................................................................................20
Environmental hardware events.................................................................................................21
Remote management processor events.......................................................................................21
Network interface events.........................................................................................................21
Server storage events..............................................................................................................22
SNMP test alert rule................................................................................................................23
5 Troubleshooting........................................................................................24
Introduction............................................................................................................................24
Discovery issues.....................................................................................................................24
Operations Manager does not discover HP VMware servers....................................................24
Authoring issues.....................................................................................................................24
Adding custom information to HP Management Packs by adding a custom task to an HP class
and overriding a parameter to HP rules................................................................................24
Operational and usage issues..................................................................................................25
Alert notifications repeat the value displayed in Path, and the Path and Source values appear to
be swapped......................................................................................................................25
Detail View shows incorrect model and HP management version for HP VMware servers.............25
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