Getting started with HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 or greater in a smaller Windows environment

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S
tatus polling of ProLiant 100 series servers
Managing storage
Systems Insight Manager
has been signif
icantly upgraded to manage storage devices
that
it supports
through the SMI
-
S (Storage Management Initiative
Specification) standards
-
based interface. SMI
-
S
complemented with SNMP enables
Systems Insight Manager
to detect and configure storage systems
incl
uding Fibre Channel
-
based storage arrays and tape libraries, hosts with HBAs, and Fibre Channel
switches. Storage devices and Fibre Channel infrastructure devices are discovered, events are
monitored, and data is gathered for proactive management and asset
reporting.
Specific storage data collection includes vendor, model, device status, array capacity, disk RAID type,
port information, LUN information, firmware level, network addresses, part numbers, and component
serial IDs.
Systems Insight Manager
,
in
conjunction with the HP Insight Management Agents
,
discovers and
monitors Modular Smart Array (MSA) series storage attached to ProLiant servers.
Systems Insight
Manager
tracks physical and logical configurations and receives prefailure alerts in a manner
c
onsistent with internal storage resources.
Systems Insight Manager
also discovers and launches
Command View EVA and Command View XP storage arrays and launches the array management
software running on hosts managed by
Systems Insight Manager
.
T
he HP ProLi
ant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) integrates seamlessly with
Systems
Insight Manager
to provide hardware bottleneck analysis for MSA storage. PMP provides the
required tools to receive proactive notification of developing bottleneck conditio
ns, and debugs
existing performance issues on MSA500/MSA1000 shared storage devices.
For value
-
added storage management functionality such as automated storage provisioning,
application
management, and chargeback, the HP Storage Essentials suite offers a
full set of modules
which can be deployed individually or as a set. Each module is tightly integrated with
Systems Insight
Manager
, ensuring
single sign
-
on, UI integration,
common discovery
,
and reporting. For more
information on HP Storage Essentials vis
it
www.hp.com/go/storageessentials
.
Managing HP printers
You can integrate HP We
b Jetadmin with
Systems Insight Manager
to extend its management
capability to include printers. The integration of HP Web Jetadmin and
Systems Insight Manager
provides:

Integrated server and printer discovery with printer drill down.
Systems Insight Mana
ger
enables
you to easily discover a wide variety of printers, drill down on a specific printer, and launch the HP
Web Jetadmin device status page to troubleshoot or manage a printer.

Easy access to the HP Web Jetadmin console from
Systems Insight Manager
.
You can launch the
full HP Web Jetadmin application from the
Systems Insight Manager
menu, enabling quick and
seamless access between the tools.
For more information,
see
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpcJAVA/offweb/vac/us/en/en/
network_software/wja_sysinsight_manager.html
.
Managing clients
The HP Client Manager Connector for
Systems Insight Manager
enables you to consolidate
deployment and m
anagement of HP clients and servers within a single
Systems Insight Manager
console. This software extends the core functionality of
Systems Insight Manager
with HP client