HP BladeSystem Management Pack (v 1.x) for Microsoft System Center User Guide

1 Overview
This guide is intended for system administrators who use the HP BladeSystem Management Pack
and other HP applications and tools to manage HP BladeSystem enclosures in a Microsoft System
Center environment.
You must be familiar with the configuration and operation of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Systems
Center Operations Manager, HP Insight Management WBEM Providers, and HP Insight Management
Agents. Because of the potential risk of data loss, only individuals who are experienced with using
this software should implement the procedures described in this guide.
This guide supplements the Microsoft System Center user documentation. Complete information on
supported hardware and software is included in “HP BladeSystem Management Pack (v 1.x) for
Microsoft System Center Support Information” (page 57). For links to other product documentation,
see “Related information” (page 54).
Introduction
The HP BladeSystem Management Pack complements and extends Operations Manager by adding
alert processing, state monitoring, and hardware resource lifecycle management for HP BladeSystem
enclosures. The management pack provides user discovery of HP BladeSystem enclosures, predefined
views, monitors, event processing rules, and tasks. These features enable administrators to streamline
IT operations and ensure increased systems availability by monitoring HP BladeSystem enclosure
hardware platforms through a common management console.
The HP BladeSystem Management Pack features include user configuration, monitoring, and
automatic grouping of the HP BladeSystem enclosures into a common view. Default monitoring
highlights the state of HP BladeSystem hardware subsystems and components, and presents a
consolidated view of the enclosure status.
For advanced hardware lifecycle management and remote administration of HP BladeSystem
enclosures, the HP BladeSystem Management Pack includes tasks that launch HP Onboard
Administrator (OA) and HP Integrated Lights-Out Web consoles for advanced remote enclosure
and server administration.
The HP BladeSystem Management Pack manages only enclosures. HP BladeSystem servers are
managed by the HP ProLiant Server Management Pack (for servers running Windows).
Product operation
The HP BladeSystem Management Pack performs the following tasks:
• Identifies, groups, and displays HP BladeSystem enclosures in the management console
• Populates Operations Manager with HP BladeSystem enclosure attributes and configuration
data for HP BladeSystem enclosure hardware and the associated management services
• Monitors and displays the state of HP BladeSystem enclosure hardware and associated
management services
• Identifies, translates, and displays HP BladeSystem enclosure hardware events written to the
Windows Event Log as Operations Manager alerts
• Provides links to HP management tools for hardware resource management and advanced
remote administration from Operations Manager
The monitor service uses the information entered through the monitor manager to connect to and
monitor enclosures. If the connection succeeds, the monitor service continues to monitor the enclosure
for inventory, health state, and events.
After the HP BladeSystem Management Pack is installed, the Operations Manager server transfers
the management pack to the Operations Manager Agent managed by the Operations Manager
6 Overview