Technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades

HP Agentless Management

HP Agentless Management is base hardware monitoring and alerting capability without the complexity of OS-based

agents. And it’s available the moment you connect a power cord and Ethernet cable to the server. HP Agentless

Management Service is an optional add-on utility that provides OS configuration data and additional subsystem

coverage. iLO Management Engine and Agentless Management are components of the HP ProActive Insight architecture

and integrated lifecycle automation built into HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. Agentless Management, allows you to monitor

core hardware and related alerts without installation of agents or providers on the host OS. On ProLiant Gen8 servers,

HP SIM discovers the iLO Management Engine and its host server without software agents. You do not need to install

Insight Management agents or WBEM providers. The iLO Management Engine will detect core error conditions within the

server and report those error conditions as SNMP alerts to HP SIM or other management consoles. The iLO Management

Engine detects and reports error conditions for the following components:

 Embedded Smart Array controllers

 CPU

 Memory

 Power supplies

 Fans

 Thermal sensors

To manage a ProLiant Gen8 server using Agentless Management, your management server must use HP SIM 7.0 or later.

HP Active Health System

The HP Active Health System is a diagnostic tool that continuously monitors and records every change in server

hardware and system configuration. The Active Health System assists in diagnosing problems and rapidly resolving

system failures.

Until now, a system issue without an obvious root cause required using multiple diagnostics tools to investigate the

cause. These diagnostic tools may provide the necessary information, but you can only run them after an issue has

developed. Another concern is that the tools often analyze subsystems individually instead of collectively. HP Active

Health System removes these limitations.

HP Active Health System runs on iLO, so there is no impact on server performance. Active Health System logs every

change in hardware and system configuration, variations in temperature and voltage, and every alert. HP support

engineers can use this log to solve even the most elusive, intermittent issues in a lot less time. More important, you will

spend less time resolving issues.

Embedded HP Remote Support

Beginning with HP Insight Remote Support v7.0.5, we’ve enabled HP iLO to access HP Insight Remote Support software

in every ProLiant Gen8 server. HP Insight Remote Support Software delivers secure 24/7 support for HP servers and

storage. We can remotely monitor your systems for hardware failures using secure technology that's been proven at

thousands of companies around the world. In many cases, our proactive monitoring and alerting can help you avoid

problems before they occur. Insight Remote Support can start working for you after a few keystrokes on a single

activation screen. For more information, go to http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/insight-

remote-support/next-gen/index.html.

HP Intelligent Provisioning

HP Intelligent Provisioning provides out-of-the box, single-server deployment and configuration. Intelligent

Provisioning replaces SmartStart and provides an improved user interface and all of the specific tools, drivers, and

agents that you need to setup, deploy and maintain your specific ProLiant Gen8 server. Then we enclosed them in an

intuitive user interface and embedded them in a NAND flash chip on the motherboard. With Intelligent Provisioning,

there is no media. Just press F10 to get started.

This makes deploying ProLiant Gen8 servers up to three times faster than deploying previous-generation servers. If

some time passes before you deploy a ProLiant Gen8 server, you can use the built-in update capabilities to access

HP.com or your local repository, and download the latest updates.