Manual

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HP ProLiant Server Management Pack elements
During installation, the following elements of the HP ProLiant Server Management Pack are copied
to the management database:
• Classes and Attributes
• Discoveries
• Monitors
• Rules
• Tasks
• Views
Management agents and WBEM providers
The management pack supports two sources of instrumentation: HP Insight Management Agents
and HP Insight Management WBEM Providers.
HP Insight Management Agents
• HP Insight Management Agents enable server management instrumentation to ProLiant servers
through the SNMP protocol.
• The HP ProLiant server discovery rules and scripts use HP Insight Management Agents, system
BIOS data, and information from the registry to identify HP ProLiant servers and collate
individual system configuration attributes.
• HP ProLiant server state monitoring rules use data from HP Insight Management Agents MIB
files to monitor the condition of HP ProLiant server hardware and to populate the State views
in the SCOM console. HP ProLiant server state monitoring rules also monitor the availability
of key HP ProLiant management software and services, such as HP Insight Management Agents.
• The HP ProLiant server event processing rules rely on HP Insight Management Agents and
data written to the Windows Event Log to identify and process HP ProLiant hardware events.
When an HP Insight Management Agent generates an event, a corresponding entry is written
to the Windows Event Log, which is the primary event data source used by Operations
Manager. If the HP event in the Windows Event Log has an associated event processing rule
defined by an HP ProLiant Server Management Pack, an Operations Manager alert is generated
and written to the appropriate view in the SCOM console.
HP alerts in Operations Manager include clear event details and Knowledge Base data
designed to enable rapid analysis of real-time and prefailure conditions. Certain hardware
events reported to the Windows Event Log can also generate additional events that indicate
a change in hardware state.
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers enable WMI-based server management to ProLiant
servers. The providers offer server management instrumentation through WMI protocol.
• The HP ProLiant server discovery rules and scripts use HP Insight Management WBEM Providers,
system BIOS data, and information from WMI to identify HP ProLiant servers and collate
individual system configuration attributes.
• HP ProLiant server state monitoring rules use data from HP Insight Management WBEM Providers
to monitor the condition of HP ProLiant server hardware and to populate the State views in
the SCOM console. HP ProLiant server state monitoring rules also monitor the availability of
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