HP OneView for Microsoft System Center User Manual
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HP ProLiant Server Management Pack
(v 1.x & 2.2) for Microsoft System Center
User Guide
Abstract
This guide provides information on using the HP ProLiant Server Management Pack for System Center versions 1.x and 2.2 to
manage HP ProLiant servers using HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center. This guide supplements the Microsoft System
Center user documentation and is intended for system administrators who use the HP ProLiant Server Management Pack to
operate and manage HP ProLiant servers.
HP Part Number: 678365-006
Published: March 2014
Edition: 1
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP ProLiant Server Management Pack (v 1.x & 2.2) for Microsoft System Center User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Using the HP ProLiant Server Management Pack
- Overriding the HP ProLiant Server Management setting for the SNMP and WMI management protocol preferences
- Monitoring HP ProLiant servers
- Using HP ProLiant servers predefined tasks
- Launching the HP System Management Homepage task
- Launching the HP Systems Insight Manager task
- Creating a custom HP Systems Insight Manager task
- Launching the Remote Desktop and Computer Management tasks
- Launching the HP ProLiant Integrated Management Log tasks
- Launching the HP Integrated Lights-Out task
- Starting failed services using HP ProLiant Management Tasks
- Analyzing HP alerts
- Using diagnostic scripts
- Discovering servers and clients
- Adding customized information
- Configuring a Run As profile
- 3 More about the HP ProLiant Server Management Pack
- HP ProLiant Server Management Pack elements
- WMI management and planning
- Views
- Tasks for HP ProLiant servers
- Classes
- Discovery rules
- Event processing rules
- Monitors
- State monitors
- 4 HP ProLiant servers NT events (SNMP)
- 5 HP ProLiant servers NT events (WMI)
- ProLiant memory events
- ProLiant processor events
- ProLiant remote management processor event
- ProLiant sensor events
- ProLiant system events
- ProLiant Ethernet events
- ProLiant Smart Array events
- ProLiant SAS events
- ProLiant SCSI events
- ProLiant Fibre Channel events
- ProLiant SATA events
- ProLiant Advanced Server Settings events
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Introduction
- Administrative issues
- Authoring issues
- Operational and usage issues
- Management pack and HP tools are not functioning on a managed node where Health Service is installed
- Using Microsoft Excel to update custom data with Custom Data Manager
- Displaying HP events as alerts on the SCOM console
- Researching state monitoring
- HP Health Collection state monitoring and failed component information
- Health Explorer shows a healthy status for disabled software services
- No HP ProLiant server appears in any DL, BL, or ML group
- System is discovered as an HP ProLiant server but is not monitored
- Expected associated classes do not appear in the Server State view or the Group State view
- Event view and Performance view are empty
- The Server State view shows a server that is no longer monitored, but the Group Diagram view still shows that the server is monitored
- Alert Descriptions in the Alert Properties view are truncated
- Alert notifications repeat value displayed in Path, and Path and Source values appear to be swapped
- Not all component statuses are updated instantly after a previously monitored device comes back online
- Limitations on using the Operations Manager Gateway Server
- The Group Diagram view shows folders named by initials
- Server icon or alert state of a managed server appears gray
- The HP System Management Homepage task shortcut is not accessible
- Web Console is a read-only view and is not supported in this release of the HP ProLiant Server Management Pack for System Center
- Server not monitored with HP Insight Management WBEM Providers
- Server not monitored with HP Insight Management Agents
- Diagnostic script results not updated when HP ProLiant server WMI Cooling Collection monitor changes state
- Incorrect HP Insight Management Agents version appears in the SCOM console
- HP ProLiant Server WMI Health Collections are not discovered in the SCOM console
- The server state is warning or critical, but System Management Homepage does not show any state errors
- HP ProLiant Management Tasks do not start failed HP Insight Management Agent services
- HP ProLiant Management Tasks can report an unexpected exit code
- HP ProLiant virtual nodes are not visible in the SCOM console
- Virtual Machine Computer objects display in Windows Computers view
- Client systems running on non-server Windows (for example, ProLiant Workstation Blades) do not appear in the SCOM console
- Workstation client nodes are discovered even when the parameter Enabled in the Client Discovery Rule is overridden to False
- Workstation client nodes are discovered even when the Client Discovery Rule is disabled after upgrade to HP ProLiant Server Management Pack version 1.30 or higher
- Active Alert view displays only one alert when there are multiple device state changes
- 7 Support and other resources
- 8 Documentation feedback
- A Installing the HP ProLiant Server Management Pack for System Center 1.x
- B HP ProLiant Server Management Pack (v 1.x) for Microsoft System Center Support Information
- Index