HP TopTools - Manual (Page 3)

HP Toptools for Unicenter User Guide
Table of Contents
1 OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................................................5
1.1 B EFORE Y OU B EGIN .......................................................................................................................................6
1.2 R EQUIREMENTS ..............................................................................................................................................8
2 INSTALLING THE HP TOPTOOLS SERVER BRIDGE COMPONENT ................................................13
2.1 P REPARING THE TOPTOOLS S ERVER .............................................................................................................13
2.2 S TEP - BY -S TEP I NSTRUCTIONS ......................................................................................................................14
2.3 P OST I NSTALLATION R ECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................................18
2.4 V ERIFYING A S UCCESSFUL I NSTALLATION ...................................................................................................18
3 INSTALLING THE CA UNICENTER PLATFORM BRIDGE COMPONENT .......................................21
3.1 P REPARING THE U NICENTER S YSTEM ...........................................................................................................21
3.2 S TEP - BY -S TEP I NSTRUCTIONS ......................................................................................................................23
3.3 R ECLASSIFY HP D EVICES .............................................................................................................................32
3.4 V ERIFYING A S UCCESSFUL I NSTALLATION ...................................................................................................32
4 INSTALLING HP WEB JETADMIN FOR UNICENTER...........................................................................37
4.1 S TEP - BY -S TEP I NSTRUCTIONS ......................................................................................................................37
4.2 V ERIFYING A S UCCESSFUL I NSTALLATION ...................................................................................................39
4.3 U SING HP W EB J ET A DMIN FOR U NICENTER ................................................................................................39
5 USING HP TOPTOOLS FOR UNICENTER.................................................................................................41
5.1 N EW M ANAGEMENT F EATURES ...................................................................................................................41
5.2 TOPTOOLS A UTHENTICATION AND U NICENTER ............................................................................................43
5.3 R ECLASSIFYING HP D EVICES ........................................................................................................................45
5.4 HP D EVICE A CTIONS .....................................................................................................................................45
5.5 M ANAGING HP KAYAKS , VECTRAS , AND VISUALIZE WORKSTATIONS ...........................................................48
5.6 M ANAGING HP OMNIBOOKS ..........................................................................................................................53
5.7 M ANAGING HP S ERVERS ...............................................................................................................................54
5.8 M ANAGING HP TOPTOOLS REMOTE CONTROL CARDS ....................................................................................58
5.9 M ANAGING HP LASERJET P RODUCTS ............................................................................................................60
5.10 M ANAGING HP PROCURVE AND ADVANCESTACK N ETWORKING D EVICES ....................................................64
5.11 U NICENTER S EVERITY B ROWSER .................................................................................................................69
5.12 U NICENTER R EPORT E XPLORER ...................................................................................................................70
6 ADVANCED CONFIGURATION...................................................................................................................72
6.1 U SING HP TOPTOOLS IN S TANDALONE M ODE ...............................................................................................72
6.2 I NTEGRATING U NICENTER AND HP TOPTOOLS 5.6 PC A NYWHERE AND S YSTEM P ERFORMANCE A DVISOR
F EATURES ................................................................................................................................................................72
6.3 U SING HP T OPTOOLS FOR U NICENTER IN L ARGE AND D ISTRIBUTED E NVIRONMENTS .................................73
6.4 A PPLICATION N OTES ....................................................................................................................................74
7 THEORY OF OPERATION ............................................................................................................................76
7.1 HP T OPTOOLS FOR U NICENTER P LATFORM B RIDGE C OMPONENT P ROCESSES .............................................76
7.2 HP T OPTOOLS FOR U NICENTER S ERVER B RIDGE C OMPONENT P ROCESS .....................................................76
7.3 M ODIFICATIONS D ONE B Y I NSTALLATION ...................................................................................................76
7.4 D ISCOVERY AND A PPLICATIONS ...................................................................................................................77
8 TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEMS.............................................................................................................78
8.1 V ERIFYING TOPTOOLS D EVICE M ANAGER ....................................................................................................78
8.2 V ERIFYING TOPTOOLS S ERVER B RIDGE ........................................................................................................78
8.3 V ERIFYING T HE P LATFORM B RIDGE ............................................................................................................78
8.4 U SEFUL L OG F ILES .......................................................................................................................................79
8.5 T ROUBLESHOOTING T IPS ..............................................................................................................................81
9 UNINSTALLING THE SERVER BRIDGE COMPONENT........................................................................82
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