Document Outline

• HP Insight Control
• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction
  • Overview
  • Structure
  • Features
• 2 Licensing
  • Overview
  • Supported licenses
  • Licensing preparation
  • Licensing servers
  • Licensing Insight Control performance management using Systems Insight Manager license manager
    • Adding licenses to the performance management database
    • Applying licenses to a server
  • Licensing Insight Control performance management using the Managed System Setup wizard
    • Applying licenses to a server
  • Licensing virtual machine hosts
• 3 Monitoring the server performance
  • Overview
  • Using the performance management interface
    • Opening the HP Insight Control console
  • Monitoring Administration page
    • Default performance management monitoring settings
    • Setting performance management monitoring parameters
    • Number of samples
    • Sample rate
    • Set Performance Threshold
    • Setting the log days
  • Manual Log Purge page
  • Enabling virtual machine host and virtual machine guests logging
• 4 Analyzing the server performance
  • Overview
  • Online Analysis
    • Performing Online Analysis
  • Offline Analysis
    • Performing Offline Analysis
  • Reading the analysis information
    • System Details pane
    • Server Configuration pane
    • Results pane
  • Graphical display
    • Expanding the local storage
    • Displaying the controller
    • Displaying the port
    • Displaying the drive
    • Displaying the inventory
• 5 Reports
  • Overview
  • Static Analysis report
    • Generating a Static Analysis Report
      • Generating an SQL queries list
    • Sample performance management Static Analysis report
  • System Summary report
    • Generating a System Summary Report
      • Generating an SQL queries list
    • Sample performance management System Summary report
      • System Summary report for a server
      • System Summary report for a VMware ESX Host
      • System Summary report for a VM Guest
  • CSV File Generator report
    • Generating a CSV File Generator Report
      • Generating an SQL queries list
    • Sample performance management CSV file
  • Server Availability report
    • Generating a Server Availability Report
      • Generating an SQL queries list
    • Sample performance management Server Availability report
  • Insight Control performance management measurement categories
    • Servers
    • Servers with VMware, Hyper-V or VMHost
    • VM guest
    • Smart Array controllers
    • Smart Array logical drives
    • SCSI buses attached to Smart Array controllers
    • Fibre Channel host bus adapters
    • Fibre Channel enclosures
    • SCSI adapters
    • SCSI buses attached to SCSI adapters
    • SCSI drives attached to SCSI adapters
    • IDE controllers
    • Network adapters
    • Host buses
  • Overall performance management performance
• 6 Troubleshooting
  • Overview
  • Insight Control performance management installation and uninstallation issues
  • Systems Insight Manager integration issues
  • Insight Control performance management licensing and monitoring administration issues
  • Insight Control performance management component issues
  • Windows Server 2003/2008 issues
  • Internet Explorer issues
• Support and other resources
  • Information to collect before contacting HP
  • How to contact HP
  • Registering for software technical support and update service
    • How to use your software technical support and update service
    • Warranty information
  • HP authorized resellers
  • Documentation feedback
  • New and changed information in this edition
  • Related information
  • Typographic conventions
• A Measurement parameter matrix
  • Server metrics
    • Server status
    • Server inventory
  • Processors
    • Processors Status
    • Processors Inventory
  • Memory
    • Memory Status
    • Memory Inventory
  • Network connections
    • Network Connections Status
    • Network Connection Inventory
  • Network adapter
    • Network Adapter Status
    • Network Adapter Inventory
  • Network port
    • Network Port Status
    • Network Port Inventory
  • Storage components
    • Storage Status
    • Storage Inventory
  • Smart Array controller
    • Smart Array Controller Status
    • Smart Array Controller Inventory
  • SCSI adapter
    • SCSI Adapter Status
    • SCSI Adapter Inventory
  • Drive array
    • Drive Array Status
    • Drive Array Inventory
  • Logical drive
    • Logical Drive Status
    • Logical Drive Inventory
  • Smart Array SCSI drive
    • Smart Array SCSI Drive Status
    • Smart SCSI Drive Inventory
  • SATA Drives
    • SATA Drive Status
    • SATA Drive Inventory
  • SAS Drives
    • SAS Drive Status
    • SAS Drive Inventory
  • SCSI drive
    • SCSI Drive Status
    • SCSI Drive Inventory
  • SCSI storage enclosure
    • SCSI Storage Enclosure Status
    • SCSI Storage Enclosure Inventory
  • IDE channel
    • IDE Channel Status
    • IDE Channel Inventory
  • IDE controller
    • IDE Controller Status
    • IDE Controller Inventory
  • ATA disk
    • ATA Disk Status
    • ATA Disk Inventory
  • Fibre Channel host bus adapter
    • Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Status
    • Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Inventory
  • Network storage controller
    • Network Storage Controller Status
    • Network Storage Controller Inventory
  • Network storage array
    • Network Storage Array Status
    • Network Storage Array Inventory
  • Network storage logical drives
    • Network Share Status
    • Network Share Inventory
  • External storage enclosure
    • External Storage Enclosure Status
    • External Storage Enclosure Inventory
  • Network storage enclosure
    • Network Storage Enclosure Status
    • Network Storage Enclosure Inventory
  • Host buses
    • Host Buses Status
    • Host Buses Inventory
  • PCI bus
    • PCI Bus Status
    • PCI Bus Inventory
  • Static analysis
• B Bottleneck scenarios
  • Analyzing a network storage bottleneck condition
    • Selecting the server
    • Displaying the storage status
    • Displaying the logical drive under network storage
    • Displaying the array
  • Analyzing a server bottleneck condition
    • Selecting the server
    • Displaying the memory status
    • Displaying the memory graph
  • Analyzing a virtual machine host and guest bottleneck condition
    • Selecting the server (virtual machine host)
    • Displaying the virtual machine host status
    • Displaying the virtual machine guests page
    • Displaying the virtual machine guest
    • Displaying the virtual machine guest performance
  • Recommendations
    • Addressing performance issues with no hardware upgrade recommendation
  • Performing a static analysis
    • General usage
• Glossary
• Index