HP Insight Control 7.3 Update 1 Getting Started Guide

1 Getting started with HP Insight Control
Insight Control is a product in the HP Insight Management family of products that can be
downloaded from the Internet. Insight Control is installed through the HP Insight Management
Installer wizard, which integrates the installation and upgrade of all Insight Management products.
For more information about installing Insight Control, see the Insight Management installation
documentation at the following web site:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/
This chapter provides an introduction to using the features and capabilities delivered by Insight
Control and how it is integrated into HP Systems Insight Manager.
How to use this guide
This guide is intended to be a quick starting point for you to learn about Insight Control features
and capabilities and how to launch them. Because the Installer wizard gave you the option to
install all or to selectively install a customized list of Insight Control features, the user documentation
for each feature is modularized in its own user guide. So, if you want more information about a
particular feature that is not provided in this guide, see the detailed user guides for the Insight
Control feature or features you want to learn more about.
Individual Insight Control feature-focused user guides are available online at the following web
site:
Enterprise Information Library
Insight Control integration with HP SIM
Insight Control delivers a set of software and tools that combine with Systems Insight Manager to
provide a powerful mechanism for discovering, installing, monitoring, and managing HP ProLiant
servers. Insight Control enhances the system monitoring, management, and deployment features
of Systems Insight Manager.
Insight Control provides a number of plug-in tools to Systems Insight Manager that enable you to
perform software deployment, monitoring, and management tasks. Systems Insight Manager
features enable you to manage and monitor a range of objects including servers, switches, and
enclosures.
To access and use Systems Insight Manager features through the Systems Insight Manager
management console, the Central Management Server (CMS), you must have installed Insight
Control as part of the Insight Management installation process. After installation, you must apply
a license to each server you want to manage and monitor with Insight Control.
If you did not apply a license to each server during the initial installation and configuration of
Insight Management, use the HP Insight managed system setup wizard or the HP-UX System
Administration Manager license manager to do so. See “Adding and applying licenses” (page
14) for instructions.
Systems Insight Manager and Insight Control features are launched from the server you chose to
be the CMS, the server on which you installed HP SIM and Insight Control.
Ensure success by running the Insight Management Advisor first
The Insight Management Advisor, included on the Insight Manager DVD, analyzes and tests your
current software and hardware environment to ensure that it meets all installation criteria and
provides you with corrective action for problems it identifies. HP recommends that you run the
Advisor before you begin the installation or upgrade process. The results of the tests help you to
identify issues or deficiencies with the target server that can cause issues with HP Systems Insight
Manager and its integrated software products. You can select the types of tests to run or restrict
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