Specifications

HP OpenVMS Version 8.4 for Integrity and Alpha servers SPD 82.35.19
Web-Based Enterprise Management Services for
OpenVMS
Web-Based Enterprise Managment (WBEM) Services
for OpenVMS is an industry standard for monitoring and
controlling resources. It is available and installed au-
tomatically with OpenVMS on Integrity server systems.
WBEM Services for OpenVMS (WBEMCIM) is required
for use of such features as Instant Capacity (iCAP),
Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP), and for products
such as Global Workload Manager (gWLM), and HP
Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). In addition, WBEM
Providers for OpenVMS is installed automatically with
OpenVMS for Integrity servers.
With Version 8.4, WBEM providers will be supported on
BL860c and BL870c blade servers to manage and mon-
itor them by communicating with HP SIM management
agents. For server blade support, "Providers" are in-
cluded that enable the monitoring of hardware and the
operating system, including:
• Operating system
• Computer system
• Process and processor statistics
• Indication (monitors events)
• Firmware version
• Fan and power supply
• Management Processor
• CPU instance
• Memory instance
• Enclosure
Provisioning OpenVMS Using HP Systems Insight
Manager
Provisioning is the process of installing or upgrading an
operating system. With provisioning support, HP SIM
installs or upgrades OpenVMS quickly and easily on
one or more servers in the network. You can install
or upgrade OpenVMS on up to eight servers simulta-
neously. Provisioning support also facilitates installing
or upgrading OpenVMS on Integrity servers and server
blades that do not include a CD/DVD drive.
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is the foundation
for HP’s unified server-storage management strategy. It
provides simplified, centralized management of multi-
ple servers and platforms through a web-based, unified
("single-pane-of-glass") interface. HP SIM offers the ba-
sic tools needed to identify, discover, monitor and deploy
systems and other assets on the network. The core HP
SIM software uses WBEM to deliver essential capabili-
ties required for managing HP server platforms.
HP SIM running on an HP ProLiant server with Microsoft
Windows supports provisioning of OpenVMS on both
HP Integrity rx3600 and rx6600 servers, and on HP In-
tegrity BL860c and BL870c Server Blades.
HP SIM can be activated from a browser on a PC.
An OpenVMS plug-in must be installed on the ProLiant
server. Once HP SIM initiates the provisioning, the in-
stallation or upgrade process occurs automatically in the
background. To provide provisioning over the network,
use HP SIM in conjunction with the InfoServer software
utility (and TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS).
Provisioning can also be accomplished with vMedia. An
ISO image of the OpenVMS OE DVD is created and
stored on the server where HP SIM is running. HP SIM
then connects vMedia to that image. Using vMedia one
server can be provisioned at a time. Currently, HP SIM
provisioning does not support booting from a shadowed
system disk. You can deploy vMedia independently of
HP SIM to install or upgrade a server over the network.
For more information about OpenVMS Provisioning see:
http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/provisioning
HP Availability Manager
HP Availability Manager is a system management tool
that enables you to monitor one or more OpenVMS
nodes on an extended local area network (LAN) from
either an OpenVMS Alpha system, or an OpenVMS for
Integrity server system, or a PC running Windows. This
tool helps system managers and analysts target a spe-
cific node or process for detailed analysis and also can
resolve certain performance or resource problems. It is
the multiplatform replacement for the DECamds product
and includes the DECamds functionality in its capabili-
ties.
For OpenVMS Version 8.4, Availability Manager has a
wide-area capability whereby any system on the net-
work supporting Availability Manager can be managed
from a central console. Moreover, Availability Manager
is enhanced to support Cluster over IP to manage and
monitor LAN or IP path data, and IP interface for cluster
communication.
The Data Collector, part of the Availability Manager
product, collects system and process data on an Open-
VMS node and should be installed on each node that
you need to monitor (Alpha and Integrity servers).
The Data Analyzer analyzes and displays the data col-
lected by the Data Collector, and can analyze and dis-
play data from many OpenVMS nodes simultaneously
(OpenVMS Alpha nodes, and PCs running Windows).
Hardware recommendations and related documentation
are available on the OpenVMS System Management
web page located at:
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