Document Outline

• HP Insight Control for Linux 7.1 User Guide
• Part I Introduction
  • 1 Using Insight Control for Linux
    • 1.1 Overview
    • 1.2 Integration with Systems Insight Manager
    • 1.3 Insight Control for Linux extensions to HP SIM
    • 1.4 Insight Control for Linux toolboxes
    • 1.5 Insight Control for Linux command environment
    • 1.6 Internal task queuing and management
    • 1.7 Synchronized system clocks
    • 1.8 Insight Control for Linux RAM disk environment
    • 1.9 Network configuration and DHCP requirements
    • 1.10 Virtual media
    • 1.11 Managed system names
      • 1.11.1 How Insight Control for Linux assigns node names
      • 1.11.2 Viewing managed system names
    • 1.12 Connecting to HP SIM
    • 1.13 Backing up Insight Control for Linux files
  • 2 Security
    • 2.1 Integrated security features
    • 2.2 Validating RPM signatures
    • 2.3 Trusted certificates
  • 3 Managing licenses
    • 3.1 Licensing overview
    • 3.2 Adding the Insight Control for Linux license key to HP SIM
    • 3.3 Licensing virtual guests
  • 4 Understanding tasks and task results
    • 4.1 Task results overview
    • 4.2 Understanding task results
    • 4.3 Task results page
    • 4.4 Common task results
      • 4.4.1 Task instance area
        • 4.4.1.1 Stopping a task
      • 4.4.2 View control options and summary status area
        • 4.4.2.1 View printable report button
        • 4.4.2.2 Rerun non-complete targets button
        • 4.4.2.3 Parameters button
      • 4.4.3 Operation details log
    • 4.5 HP SIM standard task results format
      • 4.5.1 Summary status and target status area
        • 4.5.1.1 Stop button in the target status area
        • 4.5.1.2 Log button in the target status area
      • 4.5.2 Target details table
    • 4.6 Scalable task results format
      • 4.6.1 Operations table
      • 4.6.2 Operation controls
      • 4.6.3 Operation target details
• Part II Deployment
  • 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
    • 5.1 Introduction to the Insight Control for Linux repository
      • 5.1.1 Configuring a remote repository
      • 5.1.2 Repository contents
      • 5.1.3 Repository item naming conventions
    • 5.2 Registering items in the Insight Control for Linux repository
      • 5.2.1 Registration overview
      • 5.2.2 Registering operating systems
      • 5.2.3 Registering SPPs and PSPs
      • 5.2.4 Registering automated installation configuration files (Kickstart and AutoYaST)
      • 5.2.5 Registering Linux scripts and SPP and PSP dependency scripts
      • 5.2.6 Registering an ISO image
    • 5.3 Copying software to the Insight Control for Linux repository
      • 5.3.1 Copying RHEL into the local repository on the CMS
      • 5.3.2 Copying RHEL into a remote repository
      • 5.3.3 Copying SLES into the repository
        • 5.3.3.1 Copying SLES version 10 or 11 (DVDs) into the repository
        • 5.3.3.2 Copying SLES 10 SP4 or SLES 11 SP1 (KISO) into the repository
      • 5.3.4 Copying virtual machine OS into the repository
      • 5.3.5 Copying a custom OS into the repository
      • 5.3.6 Automating a custom OS installation
      • 5.3.7 Downloading SPPs and PSPs into the repository
        • 5.3.7.1 Downloading and copying a PSP
        • 5.3.7.2 Downloading and copying an SPP
    • 5.4 Editing and deleting registered items
      • 5.4.1 Editing registered items in the repository
      • 5.4.2 Deleting registered items from the repository
  • 6 Configuring network parameters for virtual media
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Preparing for virtual media
      • 6.2.1 Discovering the management processor with HP SIM
      • 6.2.2 Creating a user account and enabling virtual media on the management processor
      • 6.2.3 Licensing virtual media on the management processor
    • 6.3 Using the Define Networks tool
      • 6.3.1 Creating a network definition
      • 6.3.2 Loading a network definition
      • 6.3.3 Changing the parameters of a network definition
      • 6.3.4 Deleting a network definition
    • 6.4 Using the Network Configuration Editor
      • 6.4.1 Additional functions of Network Configuration Editor page
      • 6.4.2 Freeing an IP address stored in Network Configuration Editor
    • 6.5 Next Step
  • 7 Discovering systems, switches, and enclosures
    • 7.1 Discovering systems
      • 7.1.1 Discovering bare-metal servers using PXE
      • 7.1.2 Discovering bare-metal servers using virtual media
      • 7.1.3 Discovering running systems
    • 7.2 Assigning Insight Control for Linux licenses to discovered systems
    • 7.3 Preparing and discovering switches and enclosures
    • 7.4 Changing the boot method
    • 7.5 Next steps
  • 8 Setting up managed systems
    • 8.1 Populating the Insight Control for Linux repository
    • 8.2 Linux OS installation
    • 8.3 Setting up managed systems for monitoring
      • 8.3.1 Opening network ports on managed systems
      • 8.3.2 Resolving host names on the CMS
      • 8.3.3 Installing additional SPP and PSP components
      • 8.3.4 Configuring agents and HP SIM SSH keys
      • 8.3.5 Configuring console access and logging
      • 8.3.6 Turning on password authentication
    • 8.4 Next steps
  • 9 Installing operating systems on managed systems
    • 9.1 Linux OS installation overview
      • 9.1.1 Interactive versus unattended installations
      • 9.1.2 Supported operating systems
      • 9.1.3 Installing other Linux operating systems
    • 9.2 Using installation configuration files for unattended installations
      • 9.2.1 Naming conventions for installation configuration files
      • 9.2.2 Customizing installation configuration files
      • 9.2.3 Installation configuration files for custom operating systems
      • 9.2.4 Configuring an operating system for console redirection
    • 9.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems
      • 9.3.1 Additional prerequisites for certain ProLiant servers
    • 9.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems
      • 9.4.1 Installing RHEL using an unattended method
      • 9.4.2 Installing RHEL interactively
    • 9.5 Installing SLES on managed systems
      • 9.5.1 Installing SLES using an unattended method
      • 9.5.2 Installing SLES interactively
      • 9.5.3 Required kernel parameters for installing x86 SLES operating systems on various servers
    • 9.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems
      • 9.6.1 Installing a VMware ESX or ESXi OS using a Kickstart file
      • 9.6.2 Installing a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi OS interactively
    • 9.7 Installing another variant of Linux on managed systems
    • 9.8 Generic procedure for installing an OS on one or more managed systems
  • 10 Capturing and deploying Linux images
    • 10.1 Overview of capturing and deploying Linux images
      • 10.1.1 File system types
      • 10.1.2 Precapture and postcapture scripts
      • 10.1.3 Predeployment, postdeployment, and final deployment scripts
    • 10.2 Prerequisites to capturing a Linux image
    • 10.3 Capturing a Linux image from a managed system
    • 10.4 Preparing for scalable deployment
    • 10.5 Deploying a captured Linux image to one or more managed system
    • 10.6 Insight Control for Linux partition wizard overview
      • 10.6.1 Partition wizard requirements and guidelines
      • 10.6.2 Using the partition wizard
  • 11 Installing and setting up virtual machines
    • 11.1 Installing virtual hosts
    • 11.2 Registering the virtual host with Insight Control virtual machine management
    • 11.3 Creating and installing virtual guests
      • 11.3.1 Guidelines for configuring a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi virtual guest
      • 11.3.2 Guidelines for configuring a KVM virtual guest
        • 11.3.2.1 Installing a RHEL KVM virtual guest
        • 11.3.2.2 Installing a SLES KVM virtual guest
      • 11.3.3 Guidelines for configuring a Xen virtual guest
    • 11.4 Obtaining virtual guest and virtual host associations
    • 11.5 Establishing monitoring for virtual hosts and virtual guests
    • 11.6 Virtual guest operations
  • 12 Using Insight Control for Linux to update HP ProLiant firmware
    • 12.1 Overview of updating HP ProLiant firmware
    • 12.2 Basic firmware update functionality
      • 12.2.1 Initial setup
      • 12.2.2 Updating firmware on systems known by HP SIM
      • 12.2.3 Updating firmware on systems during bare-metal discovery
      • 12.2.4 Viewing the results of a firmware update
      • 12.2.5 Specifying HPSUM option flags
      • 12.2.6 Adding or removing firmware files from the firmware tar file
      • 12.2.7 Firmware update time out
    • 12.3 Advanced firmware update functionality
      • 12.3.1 Understanding the firmware configuration file
      • 12.3.2 Example firmware configuration files
  • 13 Installing SPPs and PSPs on managed systems
    • 13.1 Overview of the SPP and PSP installation tool
    • 13.2 Required SPP and PSP components
    • 13.3 Creating a SPP or PSP dependency script
    • 13.4 SPP or PSP installation procedure
  • 14 ISO control operations
    • 14.1 Booting an ISO image on a server
    • 14.2 Inserting an ISO image
    • 14.3 Ejecting an ISO image
  • 15 Remote server controls
    • 15.1 Powering off a managed system
    • 15.2 Powering on a managed system
    • 15.3 Rebooting a managed system
    • 15.4 HP Insight Control power management
  • 16 Using SSH for remote server management
    • 16.1 Setting SSH credentials on managed systems
    • 16.2 Setting SSH credentials for users
    • 16.3 Running a command on multiple managed systems
    • 16.4 Using Insight Control for Linux to run commands and scripts through SSH
      • 16.4.1 Running an SSH command
      • 16.4.2 Running a Linux script
• Part III Monitoring
  • 17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections
    • 17.1 Introduction to collections
    • 17.2 Populating a collection
    • 17.3 Adding servers and switches to an Insight Control for Linux collection
    • 17.4 Removing a managed system or switch from an Insight Control for Linux collection
  • 18 Setting up management hubs
    • 18.1 About management hubs
    • 18.2 Creating a management hub
    • 18.3 Removing a management hub
  • 19 Configuring monitoring services
    • 19.1 Overview of monitoring
    • 19.2 Configuring a self-signed Apache certificate on the CMS
    • 19.3 Starting management and monitoring services
    • 19.4 Installing Insight Control for Linux management agents
    • 19.5 Verifying successful configuration of the monitoring services
      • 19.5.1 Ensuring that Nagios is reporting status
      • 19.5.2 Summarizing service status
  • 20 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems
    • 20.1 Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview
      • 20.1.1 Collecting metrics through a management processor
      • 20.1.2 Collecting metrics through OS agents
      • 20.1.3 Collecting events with syslog
    • 20.2 Nagios overview
      • 20.2.1 Nagios documentation
      • 20.2.2 Launching Nagios
    • 20.3 Using Nagios
      • 20.3.1 Viewing network health
      • 20.3.2 Viewing Nagios hosts and services
      • 20.3.3 Displaying hosts and services that are experiencing problems
      • 20.3.4 Displaying network bandwidth and system use
      • 20.3.5 Gathering and displaying system environment data
    • 20.4 Services monitored by Nagios
    • 20.5 Understanding Nagios alert messages
    • 20.6 Understanding system event log monitoring
    • 20.7 Configuring Nagios email alerts
    • 20.8 Monitoring Metrics in real time
      • 20.8.1 Performance Dashboard overview
      • 20.8.2 Performance Dashboard features
      • 20.8.3 Performance Dashboard requirements
      • 20.8.4 Interpreting the data in a ring plot
        • 20.8.4.1 Ring plot color coding
        • 20.8.4.2 Ring plot units of measure
      • 20.8.5 Launching the Performance Dashboard tool
      • 20.8.6 Using the mouse buttons to manipulate the Performance Dashboard tool
      • 20.8.7 Performance Dashboard tool metrics
      • 20.8.8 Customizing the Performance Dashboard tool metrics
  • 21 Using the command line to view managed system status
    • 21.1 Archiving sensor metrics on an individual basis
    • 21.2 Displaying usage, statistics, and metrics with the shownode command
      • 21.2.1 Displaying configuration information for a managed system
      • 21.2.2 Displaying all host hames associated with a managed system
      • 21.2.3 Using the shownode virtual command
      • 21.2.4 Using the shownode metrics command
        • 21.2.4.1 Displaying system sensor information
        • 21.2.4.2 Displaying processor usage and load
        • 21.2.4.3 Displaying memory
        • 21.2.4.4 Displaying paging and swap data
    • 21.3 Displaying environmental data
    • 21.4 Reporting usage information and host and service status
  • 22 Connecting to a remote console
    • 22.1 Console management facility overview
    • 22.2 How CMF works
    • 22.3 Accessing a remote console
    • 22.4 Serial connections on DL100 series servers
    • 22.5 Enabling telnet access to iLO management processors
• Part IV Other topics
  • 23 Miscellaneous topics
    • 23.1 Changing management processor credentials
    • 23.2 Changing the default port for the repository web server
    • 23.3 Increasing the number of servers that can be discovered concurrently
    • 23.4 Changing the IP address of the CMS
    • 23.5 Uninstalling Insight Control for Linux
    • 23.6 Determining the installed Insight Control for Linux version
    • 23.7 Event logging overview
      • 23.7.1 Understanding the event logging structure
      • 23.7.2 The syslog-ng.conf rules file
      • 23.7.3 Modifying the syslog-ng rules files
    • 23.8 Changing the number of concurrent tasks
    • 23.9 Support for HP ProLiant DL1xx series servers
      • 23.9.1 Configuring SNMP
    • 23.10 Setting up the DHCP server for virtual guests
    • 23.11 Uninstalling atftp and installing tftp
  • 24 Advanced topics
    • 24.1 Management Processor Credentials
      • 24.1.1 General information on Insight Control for Linux MP credentials
      • 24.1.2 Maintaining MP unique credentials
        • 24.1.2.1 Discovering and setting up servers with PXE deployment
        • 24.1.2.2 Discovering and setting up servers with virtual media deployment
      • 24.1.3 LO100 management processor credential storage
    • 24.2 Deploying WBEM provider components using Configure or Repair Agents task
    • 24.3 Logging RAM disk connections and operations
• Part V Troubleshooting and support resources
  • 25 Troubleshooting
    • 25.1 General troubleshooting topics
    • 25.2 Alternative booting
    • 25.3 Apache service does not start
    • 25.4 Troubleshooting CMF problems
    • 25.5 Troubleshooting configuration problems
    • 25.6 Troubleshooting connection problems
    • 25.7 Troubleshooting DHCP problems
    • 25.8 Troubleshooting discovery problems
    • 25.9 Troubleshooting firmware update problems
    • 25.10 Troubleshooting Insight Control for Linux repository problems
    • 25.11 Troubleshooting large scale deployment problems
    • 25.12 Troubleshooting licensing problems
    • 25.13 Troubleshooting monitoring problems
    • 25.14 Nagios Troubleshooting
      • 25.14.1 Determining the status of the Nagios service
      • 25.14.2 Examining Nagios log files
      • 25.14.3 Running Nagios plug-ins manually
      • 25.14.4 Using the Nagios report generator analyze mode
      • 25.14.5 Messages reported by Nagios
      • 25.14.6 A check_nrpe error occurs during management agents installation
      • 25.14.7 Nagios gather_all_data script reports check_nrpe errors
      • 25.14.8 Troubleshooting Nagios problems
    • 25.15 Troubleshooting OS installation and image deployment problems
      • 25.15.1 RHEL and SLES installations
      • 25.15.2 Custom OS installations
      • 25.15.3 Capturing Linux images
      • 25.15.4 Deploying Linux images
    • 25.16 Troubleshooting SPP and PSP installation failures
    • 25.17 Troubleshooting PXE Boot problems
    • 25.18 Troubleshooting the run script and run SSH command tools
    • 25.19 Troubleshooting server power control problems
    • 25.20 Troubleshooting server-to-management processor associations
      • 25.20.1 Maintaining server-to-management processor associations
      • 25.20.2 Identifying a lost server-to-management processor association
      • 25.20.3 Rebuilding a server-to-management processor association
        • 25.20.3.1 Repairing the association of a booted managed system running an OS
        • 25.20.3.2 Restoring the association of a bare-metal-discovered server blade
        • 25.20.3.3 Repairing the association of an unbooted managed system without an OS
        • 25.20.3.4 Establishing the association with a server after a bare metal discovery.
      • 25.20.4 Establishing association between iLO and server
    • 25.21 Troubleshooting SNMP problems
    • 25.22 Troubleshooting SSH
    • 25.23 Troubleshooting Supermon problems
    • 25.24 Troubleshooting syslog-ng problems
    • 25.25 Troubleshooting Insight Control for Linux tool problems
    • 25.26 Troubleshooting uninstallation problems
    • 25.27 Troubleshooting virtual machine installation and setup problems
    • 25.28 Troubleshooting virtual media problems
  • 26 Support and other resources
    • 26.1 Information to collect before contacting HP
    • 26.2 How to contact HP
    • 26.3 Registering for software technical support and update service
      • 26.3.1 How to use your software technical support and update service
      • 26.3.2 Warranty information
    • 26.4 HP authorized resellers
    • 26.5 Documentation feedback
    • 26.6 New and changed information in this edition
    • 26.7 Related information
      • 26.7.1 Documents
      • 26.7.2 Websites
      • 26.7.3 Troubleshooting resources
    • 26.8 Typographic conventions
• A Customizing Nagios
  • A.1 Changing the Nagios user
  • A.2 Adjusting the Nagios configuration
    • A.2.1 Stopping and restarting Nagios before performing maintenance operations
    • A.2.2 Modifying the nagios_vars.ini file to change the Nagios configuration
    • A.2.3 Changing sensor threshold values
    • A.2.4 Rebuilding the nagios_vars.ini file for changes to take effect
    • A.2.5 Adjusting the time allotted for metrics collection
      • A.2.5.1 Global service check timeout limit
    • A.2.6 Disabling individual Nagios plug-ins
  • A.3 Changing Nagios default settings
  • A.4 Changing the rotation of system event logs and changing the rules file
  • A.5 Controlling Nagios messages
  • A.6 Modifying the Nagios password file
• Glossary
• Index