Owner's manual

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................5
Introduction..............................................................................................................................5
HP Device Monitor Service, HP Device Monitor Console, and this management pack........................6
2 Using this management pack.......................................................................7
Using the Monitoring view.........................................................................................................7
Viewing all HP ProLiant Agentless servers.....................................................................................8
Identifying a failed subsystem.....................................................................................................9
Viewing and analyzing alerts.....................................................................................................9
Launching the HP Device Monitor Console.................................................................................10
Adding a server.....................................................................................................................10
Updating a managed server....................................................................................................10
Removing a managed server....................................................................................................10
Launching HP Integrated Lights-Out for a failed subsystem............................................................10
Using Run As profiles..............................................................................................................11
3 More about this management pack.............................................................12
Architecture...........................................................................................................................12
This management pack depends on other management packs.................................................12
This management pack uses the DMS...................................................................................12
Using AMS affects properties and views...............................................................................12
Views....................................................................................................................................13
Active Alerts view...............................................................................................................14
Server State view...............................................................................................................15
Group Diagram view..........................................................................................................16
Predefined tasks.....................................................................................................................17
Security for HP tasks...........................................................................................................18
Classes.................................................................................................................................18
Groups..................................................................................................................................21
Discovery rules.......................................................................................................................21
Health monitors......................................................................................................................22
State monitors........................................................................................................................22
Propagation monitors..............................................................................................................23
Diagnostic scripts....................................................................................................................23
4 Events.....................................................................................................24
Base hardware events.............................................................................................................24
Environmental hardware events.................................................................................................25
Remote management processor events.......................................................................................25
Network interface events.........................................................................................................25
Server storage events..............................................................................................................26
SNMP test alert rule................................................................................................................27
5 Troubleshooting........................................................................................28
Introduction............................................................................................................................28
Discovery issues.....................................................................................................................28
Operations Manager does not discover HP Agentless servers..................................................28
Authoring issues.....................................................................................................................28
Adding custom information to HP Management Packs by adding a custom task to an HP class
and overriding a parameter to HP rules................................................................................28
Operational and usage issues..................................................................................................29
Alert notifications repeat the value displayed in Path, and the Path and Source values appear to
be swapped......................................................................................................................29
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