Owner's manual

Contents
1 Overview of HP Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization..................5
HP Insight Control for RHEV GUI.................................................................................................6
The HP Insight Control for RHEV host information tabs...................................................................7
The HP Insight Control for RHEV Actions toolbar...........................................................................8
2 Installation and discovery............................................................................9
Installing and configuring HP Insight Control for RHEV...................................................................9
Discovering hosts....................................................................................................................11
3 Viewing inventory, performance, and health data for HP ProLiant host servers...13
Credentials tab.......................................................................................................................13
Communication Status tab.......................................................................................................13
Global Newsfeed tab.............................................................................................................14
Overview tab.........................................................................................................................15
Newsfeed tab........................................................................................................................16
Host tab................................................................................................................................17
Infrastructure tab.....................................................................................................................19
Networking tab......................................................................................................................21
Interpreting the networking data diagram details....................................................................22
4 Managing your HP ProLiant systems............................................................23
Monitoring system events and taking corrective action.................................................................23
Controlling devices and linking to HP management tools.............................................................23
Controlling the server power................................................................................................24
Controlling the server UID light............................................................................................24
Using the Single-Sign-On iLO Web interface.........................................................................24
Using the Single-Sign-On iLO Remote Console.......................................................................24
Using the Single-Sign-On Onboard Administrator Web interface.............................................25
Accessing the Virtual Connect login page.............................................................................25
Using Online Help..................................................................................................................25
Using the Reports icon.............................................................................................................25
Accessing HP’s Insight Control Web page.................................................................................25
5 Managing discovery credentials.................................................................26
Creating user credentials.........................................................................................................26
Updating user credentials........................................................................................................27
Deleting user credentials..........................................................................................................27
6 Viewing entity traps in RHEV-M..................................................................28
7 Generating reports...................................................................................29
Installing support for reporting..................................................................................................29
Pre-requisite RHEV-M packages............................................................................................29
Configure support for HP Insight Control for RHEV reporting....................................................29
Creating ad hoc reports..........................................................................................................29
Customizing the fields in an ad hoc report............................................................................31
Adding a title to an ad hoc report............................................................................................32
Creating and viewing the VC_Profiles report..............................................................................32
8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................34
9 Uninstalling HP Insight Control for RHEV......................................................35
Uninstalling the HP Insight Control for RHEV GUI........................................................................35
Uninstalling the HP Insight Control for RHEV database.................................................................35
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