Owner manual

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................5
Introduction..............................................................................................................................5
Product operation.....................................................................................................................5
2 Using the Virtual Connect Management Pack with Operations Manager ...........6
Launching HP Virtual Connect Manager......................................................................................6
Using Run As Profiles................................................................................................................6
Analyzing HP alerts..................................................................................................................7
Health Explorer........................................................................................................................8
Health Explorer State change.....................................................................................................9
3 More about the Virtual Connect Management Pack.......................................10
HP Virtual Connect views.........................................................................................................10
Active Alerts view...............................................................................................................11
Domain State view.............................................................................................................13
Group Diagram view..........................................................................................................13
Health Collection State view................................................................................................14
Logical Components views..................................................................................................14
Ethernet Networks view..................................................................................................14
FC Fabrics....................................................................................................................15
Server Profiles...............................................................................................................15
Physical Components views.................................................................................................16
Ethernet Modules..........................................................................................................16
Ethernet Uplink Ports .....................................................................................................17
FC Modules.................................................................................................................17
FC Uplink Ports.............................................................................................................18
Flex Fabric Modules .....................................................................................................18
Flex Fabric Uplink Ports..................................................................................................19
Predefined tasks.....................................................................................................................19
Security for HP tasks...............................................................................................................20
Classes.................................................................................................................................20
Discovery rules.......................................................................................................................28
State monitors........................................................................................................................28
Propagation monitors..............................................................................................................29
4 Virtual Connect NT events.........................................................................32
5 Troubleshooting........................................................................................33
Introduction............................................................................................................................33
Authoring issues.....................................................................................................................33
Adding custom information to HP MPs by adding a custom task to an HP class and overriding an
HP rule's parameter...........................................................................................................33
Operational and usage issues..................................................................................................33
Researching state monitoring...............................................................................................33
Expected associated classes are not displaying in the Domain State or Health Collection views....34
Event view and Performance view are empty..........................................................................34
Tasks not launching from the Health Explorer Properties or Product Knowledge pages.................34
The Group Diagram view displays initials of folder names.......................................................34
Active Alert view displays one alert although multiple device state changes occurred..................34
Management console displays the same domain multiple times................................................34
Management console does not display alerts in the Active Alert view when opened from the
Domain State view.............................................................................................................34
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