HP Insight Control Software for Linux Instruction Manuals and User Guides
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| Recognized languages: | English |
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| Pages: | 54 |
| Size: | 1.43 MB |
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- HP Insight Control
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key concepts
- 3 Initial setup
- 4 Using Insight Control virtual machine management
- Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview
- Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools
- Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks
- Creating a CriticalVmHost collection
- VMware ESX Server Guest System page
- Performance information
- Performance color codes
- Multisystem aware tools available
- 5 Managing virtual machines
- Making a backup of the virtual machine management database
- Task: VMM security properties
- Logging VMM logs into Windows NT Events
- Handling prefailure events
- Prerequisites
- Handling automatic prefailure events
- Handling automatic prefailure events by using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server
- Handling semi-automatic prefailure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server
- Handling automatic prefailure events by using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature
- Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature
- Setting alternate hosts
- Making periodic backups of virtual machines
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Insight Control virtual machine management controls
- Virtual machine customization fails during template deployment
- Deploying a virtual machine on a host with the password having the special character (") embedded within it fails to work as expected.
- VMM API does not work with datastores or VMs named with special characters
- Changing the SCVMM server credentials is not reflected in the UI VMM status icon
- Upgrading SCVMM 2008 to SCVMM 2012
- User does not have the option to change the VM name in the Select VM Backup Repository Location step of the create backup wizard.
- Deploying template in Hyper-V hangs at 25% and the job remains incomplete
- VMM loses connectivity to the Hyper-V nodes
- VMM loses communication with vCenter
- Virtual machine host and guest icons do not appear in VMM
- Insight Control virtual machine management does not display the system name, system IP address, and operating system
- Critical status appears for a virtual machine host in VMM
- A blank page appears when you launch VMM from HP SIM
- Virtual machine status is not updated
- Virtual machine guest information becomes inaccessible from VMM
- A virtual machine host appears in VMM multiple times
- Live Move fails after SAN move
- Virtual machine host experiences extremely slow response time
- Insight Control virtual machine management demo licensing
- If the same backup is restored multiple times, the Restore Virtual Machine from Backup operation fails
- Recovery of virtual machine fails with incompatible hardware configurations
- An error occurs when you click Remote Desktop
- Insight Control virtual machine management functions
- Service for Hyper-V fails when the bootdisk is created on a disk other than ide0:0
- VMM cannot manage a Hyper-V VM
- Support for xen on RHEL 5.8 as a managed node fails during VMM registration
- Stop VM task does not perform as expected on Xen on RHEL 5.4 x86 virtual machine hosts
- Error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing the copy operation on a virtual machine
- Restarting the VMM service while any guest VM lifecycle operation or guest VM movements across hosts is in progress will result in failure
- Copied or moved Xen virtual machine guest does not start on the destination host
- Virtual machine host prefailure even handling does not progress
- HTTP ERROR: 500 Internal Server Error message appears during a VMM move or copy operation
- Insight Control virtual machine management cannot move virtual machines with certain disk types
- Virtual machine files are not deleted after a move for Xen hypervisors
- Virtual machine devices might not be available after a copy or move
- Launching the remote console from VMM console might fail
- Insight Control virtual machine management does not display the Quick Move option for HA-configured Microsoft Hyper-V server virtual machines in the Move wizard
- Virtual machine cannot be made highly available unless all the VM files reside on Cluster Shared Volume (CSV).
- VM status of the already registered vCenter in all Systems page temporarily becomes critical
- Empty folders are created when deploy template operation fails for SCVMM HA template on a standalone HyperV host
- VMM installation fails when VMM installation directory is different with respect to SIM
- HP Systems Insight Manager console integration
- The virtual machine guest is not listed on the HP SIM All Systems page
- Certain Insight Control operations cannot be performed on a virtual machine
- The HP SIM console does not identify a server as a virtual machine host
- The HP SIM console does not discover a virtual machine host or guest
- HP SIM console identifies a virtual machine guest as an unknown or unmanaged device
- The virtual machine is discovered as an unmanaged system
- Uninstalling or retiring an HP SIM CMS
- Hardware
- Insight Control virtual machine management controls
- 7 Support and other resources
- Information to collect before contacting HP
- How to contact HP
- Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components
- Registering for software technical support and update service
- HP authorized resellers
- New and changed information in this edition
- Related information
- Typographic conventions
- 8 Documentation feedback
- A Virtual machine events
- B Error messages
- Glossary
- Index
| Recognized languages: | English |
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| Pages: | 43 |
| Size: | 955 KB |
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- HP Insight Control Power Management 7.1 User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key concepts
- 3 Managing power and cooling facilities in your data center
- Task: Importing power configuration from third-party management software
- Task: Importing power configuration from external databases
- Task: Monitoring the power and cooling requirements of your IT equipment
- Task: Ensuring sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center
- Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure
- Task: Getting notified of unexpected or excessive power consumption
- Task: Validating delivery of redundant power to systems
- Task: Determining trapped capacity in your data center
- Task: Reclaiming power/thermal capacity for a new system
- Task: Controlling the power of the PDU outlets
- Task: Generating power topology for BladeSystem enclosures through iPDUs
- Task: Classifying systems by business criticality
- Task: Defining rules to reduce power consumption
- Task: Defining rules for external events
- Task: Delegating rule authorization for operators
- Task: Notification of Power Management Events
- Task: Limiting the power consumption in the data center during events
- Task: Gracefully shutting down virtual machines
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 Support and other resources
- A Capability matrix
- Glossary
- Index
| Recognized languages: | English |
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| Pages: | 43 |
| Size: | 894 KB |
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- HP Insight Control
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key concepts
- 3 Managing power and cooling facilities in your data center
- Task: Importing power configuration from third-party management software
- Task: Importing power configuration from external databases
- Task: Monitoring the power and cooling requirements of your IT equipment
- Task: Ensuring the sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center
- Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure
- Task: Getting notified of unexpected or excessive power consumption
- Task: Validating delivery of redundant power to systems
- Task: Determining trapped capacity in your data center
- Task: Reclaiming power/thermal capacity for a new system
- Task: Classifying systems by business criticality
- Task: Defining rules to reduce power consumption
- Task: Defining rules for external events
- Task: Delegating rule authorization for operators
- Task: Notification of Power Management Events
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 Support and other resources
- A Capability matrix
- Glossary
- Index
| Recognized languages: | English |
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| Pages: | 59 |
| Size: | 1.41 MB |
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- HP Insight Control
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key concepts
- 3 Initial setup
- 4 Using virtual machine management
- Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview
- Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools
- Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks
- Failed host recovery
- Setting up the recovery feature
- Creating a CriticalVmHost collection
- VMware ESX Server Guest System page
- Performance information
- Performance color codes
- Multisystem aware tools available
- 5 Managing virtual machines
- Task: Logging virtual machine management logs into Windows NT Events
- Task: Handling pre-failure events
- Prerequisites
- Handling automatic pre-failure events
- Handling automatic pre-failure events using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server
- Handling semi-automatic pre-failure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server
- Handling automatic pre-failure events using the Set Alternate host feature
- Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate host feature
- Task: Setting alternate hosts
- Task: Periodic backup of virtual machines
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Insight Control virtual machine management controls
- Virtual machine host and guest icons do not appear in virtual machine management
- Insight Control virtual machine management does not display the system name, system IP address, and operating system
- Critical status appears for a virtual machine host in virtual machine management
- A blank page appears when you launch virtual machine management from Systems Insight Manager
- Virtual machine status is not updated
- Virtual machine guest information becomes inaccessible from virtual machine management
- A virtual machine host appears in virtual machine management multiple times
- A virtual machine guest appears in VMware vCenter Server multiple times
- Live Move fails after SAN move
- VMotion fails because virtual machine host names are mismatched in Systems Insight Manager and vCenter Server
- Virtual machine host experiences extremely slow response time
- Insight Control virtual machine management demo licensing
- If the same backup is restored multiple times, then the Restore Virtual Machine from backup operation fails
- Recovery of virtual machine fails with incompatible hardware configurations
- An error occurs when you click Remote Desktop
- Insight Control virtual machine management functions
- Stop VM task does not perform as expected on Xen on RHEL 5.4 x86 virtual machine hosts
- Error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing the copy operation on a virtual machine
- Transport operation fails after restarting virtual machine management
- Copied or moved Xen virtual machine guest does not start on the destination host
- Handle virtual machine host prefailure events task does not progress
- HTTP ERROR: 500 Internal Server Error message appears during a virtual machine management move or copy operation
- Insight Control virtual machine management cannot move virtual machines with certain disk types
- Virtual machine files are not deleted after a move
- Virtual machine devices might not be available after a copy or move
- A shutdown or restart operation fails or does not complete
- Launching the remote console from virtual machine management console might fail
- Some virtual machine management operations dependent on vCenter Server do not complete or are completed without confirmation
- Orphan managed systems created in the CMS
- Failed host recovery on master Citrix XenServer host of the HA disabled resource pool fails
- Insight Control virtual machine management does not display Quick Move option for HA configured Microsoft Hyper-V server virtual machines in the Move wizard
- Pre-failure alerting reports errors for Citrix XenServer resource pool
- Hyper-V R2 host virtual machines recovered on alternate host using Failed Host Recovery cannot be powered on
- HP Systems Insight Manager console integration
- The virtual machine guest is not listed on the Systems Insight Manager All Systems page
- Certain Insight Control operations cannot be performed on a virtual machine
- The Systems Insight Manager console does not identify a server as a virtual machine host
- The Systems Insight Manager console does not discover a virtual machine host or guest
- Systems Insight Manager console identifies a virtual machine guest as an unknown or unmanaged device
- The virtual machine is discovered as an unmanaged system
- Uninstalling or retiring an Systems Insight Manager CMS
- Hardware
- Insight Control virtual machine management controls
- Support and other resources
- A Virtual machine events
- B Error messages
- Glossary
- Index
| Recognized languages: | English |
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| Pages: | 273 |
| Size: | 4.62 MB |
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- 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
- 1.12 Connecting to HP SIM
- 1.13 Backing up Insight Control for Linux files
- 2 Security
- 3 Managing licenses
- 4 Understanding tasks and task results
- 1 Using Insight Control for Linux
- Part II Deployment
- 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.1 Introduction to the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.2 Registering items in the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 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
- 5.3.4 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
- 5.4 Editing and deleting registered items
- 6 Configuring network parameters for virtual media
- 7 Discovering systems, switches, and enclosures
- 8 Setting up managed systems
- 9 Installing operating systems on managed systems
- 9.1 Linux OS installation overview
- 9.2 Using installation configuration files for unattended installations
- 9.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems
- 9.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems
- 9.5 Installing SLES on managed systems
- 9.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems
- 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
- 10.2 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
- 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
- 11.4 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
- 13 Installing SPPs and PSPs on managed systems
- 14 ISO control operations
- 15 Remote server controls
- 16 Using SSH for remote server management
- 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- Part III Monitoring
- 17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections
- 18 Setting up management hubs
- 19 Configuring monitoring services
- 20 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems
- 20.1 Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview
- 20.2 Nagios overview
- 20.3 Using Nagios
- 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
- 20.8.5 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
- 21.3 Displaying environmental data
- 21.4 Reporting usage information and host and service status
- 22 Connecting to a remote console
- 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
- 23.8 Changing the number of concurrent tasks
- 23.9 Support for HP ProLiant DL1xx series servers
- 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
- 24.2 Deploying WBEM provider components using Configure or Repair Agents task
- 24.3 Logging RAM disk connections and operations
- 23 Miscellaneous topics
- 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
- 25.16 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
- 25 Troubleshooting
- 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.2.6 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
| Recognized languages: | English |
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| Pages: | 272 |
| Size: | 4.59 MB |
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- Insight Control for Linux 7.0 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
- 1.12 Connecting to HP SIM
- 1.13 Backing up Insight Control for Linux files
- 2 Security
- 3 Managing licenses
- 4 Understanding tasks and task results
- 1 Using Insight Control for Linux
- Part II Deployment
- 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.1 Introduction to the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.2 Registering items in the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 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
- 5.3.4 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 Copying or downloading PSPs into the repository
- 5.4 Editing and deleting registered items
- 6 Configuring network parameters for virtual media
- 7 Discovering systems, switches, and enclosures
- 8 Setting up managed systems
- 9 Installing operating systems on managed systems
- 9.1 Linux OS installation overview
- 9.2 Using installation configuration files for unattended installations
- 9.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems
- 9.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems
- 9.5 Installing SLES on managed systems
- 9.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems
- 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
- 10.2 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
- 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
- 11.4 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
- 13 Installing PSPs on managed systems
- 14 ISO control operations
- 15 Remote server controls
- 16 Using SSH for remote server management
- 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- Part III Monitoring
- 17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections
- 18 Setting up management hubs
- 19 Configuring monitoring services
- 20 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems
- 20.1 Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview
- 20.2 Nagios overview
- 20.3 Using Nagios
- 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
- 20.8.5 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
- 21.3 Displaying environmental data
- 21.4 Reporting usage information and host and service status
- 22 Connecting to a remote console
- 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
- 23.8 Changing the number of concurrent tasks
- 23.9 Support for HP ProLiant DL1xx series servers
- 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
- 24.2 Deploying WBEM provider components using Configure or Repair Agents task
- 24.3 Logging RAM disk connections and operations
- 23 Miscellaneous topics
- 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
- 25.16 Troubleshooting 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
- 25 Troubleshooting
- 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.2.6 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
| Recognized languages: | English |
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| Pages: | 87 |
| Size: | 2.08 MB |
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- HP Insight Control Server Migration 7.3 User Guide
- Part I Overview and concepts
- Part II Premigration tasks
- Part III Migration
- 6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent
- Verifying Windows source server requirements
- Verifying Linux source server requirements
- Removing guest tools
- Choosing server migration Agents
- Deploying server migration Agents
- Manually running server migration Source Agents on the source server
- Detecting, stopping, or restarting a remotely deployed server migration Source Agent
- 7 Preparing the destination server and deploying the destination agent
- Prerequisites
- Linux destination size requirement
- Booting the destination server
- Booting a physical destination server manually by using the Insight Control server migration ProLiant Boot CD ISO for X2P migrations
- Booting a physical destination server automatically by using the migration wizard
- Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server
- Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server
- 8 Migrating the servers
- 9 Postmigration tasks
- Installing ProLiant Support Packs after migration
- Installing Service Pack for ProLiant after migration
- X2P postmigration tasks (Windows)
- X2V postmigration tasks (Windows)
- Editing the Windows boot.ini file after migration (Windows Server 2003)
- X2P postmigration tasks (Linux)
- X2V postmigration tasks (Linux)
- Viewing migration logs
- Validating the migration
- 6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent
- Part IV Troubleshooting and support
- 10 Troubleshooting
- User interface
- Server migration wizard hangs
- Browser displays an error after loading the server migration wizard from Systems Insight Manager
- Launching server migration from Systems Insight Manager throws an exception
- The name of HP Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331i-SPI Adapter is not displayed correctly
- Unable to launch server migration tools from Systems Insight Manager
- Static IP configuration fails on Hyper-V VM when configured using Boot CD
- Unable to migrate Windows 2008/2008 R2/2012 R2
- Source preparation
- Corrective action is required before this server can be migrated
- Source server identification fails
- Migration Agent deployment fails
- Linux Source Agent window does not appear on RHEL 64–bit
- Remote deployment of Linux Source Agent using nonroot credentials fails
- Incorrect LUN size is detected in step 2 of the migration wizard
- Migrating a source server fails with the Microsoft Hyper-V role enabled
- Windows Migration agent successful, even when deployment fails
- Destination preparation
- Destination server identification fails
- IP address configuration fails on a manually booted virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V for a P2V or V2V migration
- Kernel panic occurs in booting a virtual machine to the Insight Control server migration Virtual Machine Boot CD ISO
- Mouse does not work on a virtual machine booted with the Insight Control server migration Virtual Machine Boot CD ISO
- Primary array controller does not have logical drives defined
- Primary controller configured in the system does not have drives attached
- Primary controller in the system is not supported by this version of Insight Control server migration
- Destination server displays a blank screen when it boots to server migration Boot CD ISO
- Some storage volumes on the destination server are not available for selection
- Static IP address cannot be assigned on the destination server while booting using the Boot CD ISO
- Supported storage controllers display Unknown on the Boot CD ISO
- Automatic booting of the destination physical server fails
- Insight Control server migration might not detect virtual machines on mapped network drives
- Destination server does not boot even though the automatic booting option was chosen during X2P migrations
- Insight Control server migration stops responding during automatic booting of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine
- Application station fails to connect to the destination server when the server is automatically booted for an X2P migration
- Warning message is not displayed for an unsupported server when the server is started using the Insight Control server migration ProLiant Boot CD
- Microsoft Windows 2008 OS migration results in a blue screen error on destination server configured with NC551m FCoE card
- Migration process
- Drivers cannot be installed or injected onto a boot disk
- Migrating a Linux source server that has large storage fails when the migration is initiated
- Linux migration might fail when X Windows configuration is not properly formatted
- Partitions created with third-party partitioning tools do not show the proper file system type in the server migration wizard
- Migration hangs if the source server is shut down
- NTFS resize error message appears
- ReiserFS volumes are blocked for Linux migration
- Filesystem on source disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0, Partition 0 could not be resized during the migration
- Migration fails during the disk cloning phase
- Failed: Drivers could Not Be Injected Into Boot Disk in the logs
- Starting a new migration after a current migration is stopped
- Unrecoverable sector-read errors on the source server hard drive are not supported and fail a Windows P2P or P2V migration
- Source Agent fails to launch when source server reboots in migration agent mode
- Error occurs during data copy of Linux migration
- SAN-connected destination server displays a blue screen
- Out of memory error occurs on the application station during migration
- Destination server boots with an invalid IP address
- Windows server migration Source Agent or PINT remote deployment is intermittent and deployment fails with a General failure occurred error
- Unable to detect HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLR-SFP+ Adapter configured as iSCSI disk in step 5 of migration wizard
- Unable to install Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) on Windows Operating System after successful migration
- Linux migration to servers with iSCSI storage fails to boot
- Postmigration
- Migration does not start after confirmation. The event log continuously displays Operation Migration waiting for connection to source
- Destination server mouse and keyboard do not work after a Windows migration
- USB mouse or keyboard drivers are not loaded after an X2P Windows migration
- Mouse does not work on the iLO of the destination server after a Linux X2P migration
- Mouse does not work on the destination ESX virtual machine after a V2V migration
- Drive letters are not the same in the migrated virtual machine guest after migration
- Drives do not appear on the migrated operating system
- Mouse and keyboard do not work after a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine is migrated to a ProLiant server
- Static IP address cannot be assigned on the destination server after migration
- Virtual machine hosts Integrated Components that are not installed on the destination virtual machine after migration
- Exclamation point (!) appears on the NIC adapter in Device Manager on the migrated virtual machine
- Network adapter in the destination ESX virtual machine is not initialized after a V2V migration
- Destination virtual machine fails to boot after X2V migration
- During editing of the settings of guest VMs created by server migration, an invalid OS ID warning appears
- Server is unresponsive during PSP installation
- Destination server still shows server migration UI but server migration wizard shows migration completed
- Operating system is not booting on a destination server that has SAN disks
- Error is displayed for a missing file system while migrated Linux OS is booted on the destination server
- Logical drives of HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller are removed
- Unable to download the log files from the migration wizard when using IE 9
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SP1 does not boot on ProLiant BL420c Gen8 with Emulex LPe1205A FC storage controller.
- Source server with SLES 11 SP2 x32 OS does not boot the operating system properly after successful migration
- RHEL version 6.3 (x64) operating system does not boot after migrating to HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i/B320i Controllers
- RHEL version 6.3 (x64) operating system does not boot as destination after successful migration
- Failed discovery logs and IP address not discovered.
- Post migration, RHEL 6.2 32 bit takes twenty minutes to boot from HP CN1000Q Dual Port Converged Network Adapter
- B120i controller is displayed as Intel Lynx storage controller
- User interface
- 11 Support and other resources
- 12 Documentation feedback
- 10 Troubleshooting
- A Applying old server migration standalone licenses
- B Performing migrations in a Microsoft Cluster server environment
- C Logging server migration application service Logs into Windows NT Events
- Glossary
- Index
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- HP Insight Control
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key concepts
- 3 Initial setup
- 4 Using Insight Control virtual machine management
- Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview
- Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools
- Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks
- Creating a CriticalVmHost collection
- VMware ESX Server Guest System page
- Performance information
- Performance color codes
- Multisystem aware tools available
- 5 Managing virtual machines
- Making a backup of the virtual machine management database
- Task: VMM security properties
- Logging VMM logs into Windows NT Events
- Handling prefailure events
- Prerequisites
- Handling automatic prefailure events
- Handling automatic prefailure events by using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server
- Handling semi-automatic prefailure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server
- Handling automatic prefailure events by using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature
- Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature
- Setting alternate hosts
- Making periodic backups of virtual machines
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Insight Control virtual machine management controls
- Virtual machine customization fails during template deployment
- Deploying a virtual machine on a host with the password having the special character (") embedded within it fails to work as expected.
- VMM API does not work with datastores or VMs named with special characters
- Changing the SCVMM server credentials is not reflected in the UI VMM status icon
- Upgrading SCVMM 2008 to SCVMM 2012 and SCVMM 2012 SP1 to SCVMM 2012 R2
- VMM does not support management of SCVMM installed on non-English operating system
- VMM does not support Management of non-English SCVMM
- SCVMM Templates of Generation 2 VMs are not supported
- MOE LinkedClone provisioning fails with SCVMM
- Type or name syntax of the registry key value IndigoTcpPort under Software\Microsoft\Microsoft System Center
- User does not have the option to change the VM name in the Select VM Backup Repository Location step of the create backup wizard.
- Deploying template in Hyper-V hangs at 25% and the job remains incomplete
- VMM loses connectivity to the Hyper-V nodes
- VMM loses communication with vCenter
- Virtual machine host and guest icons do not appear in VMM
- Insight Control virtual machine management does not display the system name, system IP address, and operating system
- Critical status appears for a virtual machine host in VMM
- A blank page appears when you launch VMM from HP SIM
- Virtual machine status is not updated
- Virtual machine guest information becomes inaccessible from VMM
- A virtual machine host appears in VMM multiple times
- Live Move fails after SAN move
- Virtual machine host experiences extremely slow response time
- Insight Control virtual machine management demo licensing
- If the same backup is restored multiple times, the Restore Virtual Machine from Backup operation fails
- Recovery of virtual machine fails with incompatible hardware configurations
- An error occurs when you click Remote Desktop
- Insight Control virtual machine management functions
- Service for Hyper-V fails when the bootdisk is created on a disk other than ide0:0
- Limitation from Virtual Center to enable or disable HotCPUPlug and HotMemoryPlug
- VMM cannot manage a Hyper-V VM
- Support for xen on RHEL 5.8 as a managed node fails during VMM registration
- Stop VM task does not perform as expected on Xen on RHEL 5.4 x86 virtual machine hosts
- Error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing the copy operation on a virtual machine
- Restarting the VMM service while any guest VM lifecycle operation or guest VM movements across hosts is in progress will result in failure
- Copied or moved Xen virtual machine guest does not start on the destination host
- Virtual machine host prefailure even handling does not progress
- HTTP ERROR: 500 Internal Server Error message appears during a VMM move or copy operation
- Insight Control virtual machine management cannot move virtual machines with certain disk types
- Virtual machine files are not deleted after a move for Xen hypervisors
- Virtual machine devices might not be available after a copy or move
- Launching the remote console from VMM console might fail
- Insight Control virtual machine management does not display the Quick Move option for HA-configured Microsoft Hyper-V server virtual machines in the Move wizard
- Virtual machine cannot be made highly available unless all the VM files reside on Cluster Shared Volume (CSV).
- VM status of the already registered vCenter in all Systems page temporarily becomes critical
- Empty folders are created when deploy template operation fails for SCVMM HA template on a standalone HyperV host
- VMM installation fails when VMM installation directory is different with respect to SIM
- Transport operation fails if Microsoft Robocopy tool is used
- Network Configuration Error appears in Hyper-V Manager
- Microsoft Windows 2003 system autologson itself when the user logs off or restarts inspite of autologon count removal
- Unable to suppress the VMM events being added onto HP SIM
- VMM does not support remote WMI mapper configuration with only IPv6 address
- VMM does not register ESX Hosts when HP SIM has IPv6 enabled
- Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 guest on Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 Hyper-v is not able to populate the IP address in the LSM\SIM UI
- Customizing the Windows VM more than 3 times corrupts the virtual hard disk
- Microsoft Windows 2012 linked clone guest customization fails
- Microsoft Windows 2003 guest login fails
- Microsoft Windows 2012 and Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 guest NIC customization fails for static IPv4 on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 host
- IPv6 Customization fails on Microsoft Windows 2003 systems
- CPU properties for powered on VM fails to update
- VM guest retains the static IPV6 addressing mode on the NIC assigned to the template
- Limitation with diskpath and controller ID in multiple data stores on ESX
- Unable to perform power on or off operations on a virtual machine through virtual machine management
- Customization fails for Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Guest VM on VMWare vCenter 4.1 U2 with ESXi 4.1 host.
- HP Systems Insight Manager console integration
- The virtual machine guest is not listed on the HP SIM All Systems page
- Certain Insight Control operations cannot be performed on a virtual machine
- The HP SIM console does not identify a server as a virtual machine host
- The HP SIM console does not discover a virtual machine host or guest
- HP SIM console identifies a virtual machine guest as an unknown or unmanaged device
- The virtual machine is discovered as an unmanaged system
- Uninstalling or retiring an HP SIM CMS
- Hardware
- Insight Control virtual machine management controls
- 7 Support and other resources
- Information to collect before contacting HP
- How to contact HP
- Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components
- Registering for software technical support and update service
- HP authorized resellers
- New and changed information in this edition
- Related information
- Typographic conventions
- 8 Documentation feedback
- A Virtual machine events
- B Error messages
- Glossary
- Index
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- HP Insight Control
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key concepts
- 3 Initial setup
- 4 Using Insight Control virtual machine management
- Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview
- Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools
- Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks
- Creating a CriticalVmHost collection
- VMware ESX Server Guest System page
- Performance information
- Performance color codes
- Multisystem aware tools available
- 5 Managing virtual machines
- Making a backup of the virtual machine management database
- Task: VMM security properties
- Logging VMM logs into Windows NT Events
- Handling prefailure events
- Prerequisites
- Handling automatic prefailure events
- Handling automatic prefailure events by using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server
- Handling semi-automatic prefailure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server
- Handling automatic prefailure events by using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature
- Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature
- Setting alternate hosts
- Making periodic backups of virtual machines
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Insight Control virtual machine management controls
- Virtual machine customization fails during template deployment
- Deploying a virtual machine on a host with the password having the special character (") embedded within it fails to work as expected.
- VMM API does not work with datastores or VMs named with special characters
- Changing the SCVMM server credentials is not reflected in the UI VMM status icon
- Upgrading SCVMM 2008 to SCVMM 2012
- User does not have the option to change the VM name in the Select VM Backup Repository Location step of the create backup wizard.
- Deploying template in Hyper-V hangs at 25% and the job remains incomplete
- VMM loses connectivity to the Hyper-V nodes
- VMM loses communication with vCenter
- Virtual machine host and guest icons do not appear in VMM
- Insight Control virtual machine management does not display the system name, system IP address, and operating system
- Critical status appears for a virtual machine host in VMM
- A blank page appears when you launch VMM from HP SIM
- Virtual machine status is not updated
- Virtual machine guest information becomes inaccessible from VMM
- A virtual machine host appears in VMM multiple times
- Live Move fails after SAN move
- Virtual machine host experiences extremely slow response time
- Insight Control virtual machine management demo licensing
- If the same backup is restored multiple times, the Restore Virtual Machine from Backup operation fails
- Recovery of virtual machine fails with incompatible hardware configurations
- An error occurs when you click Remote Desktop
- Insight Control virtual machine management functions
- Service for Hyper-V fails when the bootdisk is created on a disk other than ide0:0
- VMM cannot manage a Hyper-V VM
- Support for xen on RHEL 5.8 as a managed node fails during VMM registration
- Stop VM task does not perform as expected on Xen on RHEL 5.4 x86 virtual machine hosts
- Error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing the copy operation on a virtual machine
- Restarting the VMM service while any guest VM lifecycle operation or guest VM movements across hosts is in progress will result in failure
- Copied or moved Xen virtual machine guest does not start on the destination host
- Virtual machine host prefailure even handling does not progress
- HTTP ERROR: 500 Internal Server Error message appears during a VMM move or copy operation
- Insight Control virtual machine management cannot move virtual machines with certain disk types
- Virtual machine files are not deleted after a move for Xen hypervisors
- Virtual machine devices might not be available after a copy or move
- Launching the remote console from VMM console might fail
- Insight Control virtual machine management does not display the Quick Move option for HA-configured Microsoft Hyper-V server virtual machines in the Move wizard
- HP Systems Insight Manager console integration
- The virtual machine guest is not listed on the HP SIM All Systems page
- Certain Insight Control operations cannot be performed on a virtual machine
- The HP SIM console does not identify a server as a virtual machine host
- The HP SIM console does not discover a virtual machine host or guest
- HP SIM console identifies a virtual machine guest as an unknown or unmanaged device
- The virtual machine is discovered as an unmanaged system
- Uninstalling or retiring an HP SIM CMS
- Hardware
- Insight Control virtual machine management controls
- 7 Support and other resources
- A Virtual machine events
- B Error messages
- Glossary
- Index
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- Insight Control for Linux 6.2 User Guide
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Using Insight Control for Linux
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Integration with HP 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
- 1.12 Connecting to HP SIM
- 1.13 Backing up Insight Control for Linux files
- 2 Security
- 3 Managing licenses
- 4 Understanding tasks and task results
- 1 Using Insight Control for Linux
- Part II Deployment
- 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.1 Introduction to the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.2 Registering items in the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 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
- 5.3.4 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 Copying or downloading PSPs into the repository
- 5.4 Editing and deleting registered items
- 6 Configuring network parameters for virtual media
- 7 Discovering systems, switches, and enclosures
- 8 Setting up managed systems
- 9 Installing operating systems on managed systems
- 9.1 Linux OS installation overview
- 9.2 Using installation configuration files for unattended installations
- 9.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems
- 9.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems
- 9.5 Installing SLES on managed systems
- 9.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems
- 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
- 10.2 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
- 11 Installing and setting up virtual machines
- 11.1 Installing virtual hosts
- 11.2 Registering the virtual host with HP Insight Control virtual machine management
- 11.3 Creating and installing virtual guests
- 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
- 13 Installing PSPs on managed systems
- 14 ISO control operations
- 15 Remote server controls
- 16 Using SSH for remote server management
- 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- Part III Monitoring
- 17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections
- 18 Setting up management hubs
- 19 Configuring monitoring services
- 20 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems
- 20.1 Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview
- 20.2 Nagios overview
- 20.3 Using Nagios
- 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
- 20.8.5 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
- 21.3 Displaying environmental data
- 21.4 Reporting usage information and host and service status
- 22 Connecting to a remote console
- 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
- 23.8 Changing the number of concurrent tasks
- 23.9 Support for HP ProLiant DL1xx series servers
- 23.10 Setting up the DHCP server for virtual guests
- 24 Advanced topics
- 24.1 Management Processor Credentials
- 24.2 Deploying WBEM provider components using Configure or Repair Agents task
- 24.3 Logging RAM disk connections and operations
- 23 Miscellaneous topics
- 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
- 25.16 Troubleshooting 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
- 25.21 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 virtual machine installation and setup problems
- 25.27 Troubleshooting virtual media problems
- 26 Support and other resources
- 25 Troubleshooting
- 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.2.6 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
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- HP Insight Control for Linux V6.0 User Guide
- 1 Using HP Insight Control for Linux
- 1.1 Integration with HP Systems Insight Manager
- 1.2 HP Insight Control for Linux licenses
- 1.3 HP Insight Control for Linux extensions to HP SIM
- 1.4 HP Insight Control for Linux toolboxes
- 1.5 HP Insight Control for Linux command environment
- 1.6 Using the HP SIM quick launch feature
- 1.7 Internal task queuing and management
- 1.8 Synchronized system clocks
- 1.9 Validating RPM signatures
- 1.10 HP Insight Control for Linux RAM disk environment
- 1.11 Network configuration and DHCP requirements
- 1.12 Virtual media
- 1.13 Managed system names
- 1.14 Security
- 1.15 Connecting to HP SIM
- 1.16 Backing up HP Insight Control for Linux files
- 2 Configuring network parameters for virtual media
- 3 Discovering managed systems, switches, and enclosures
- 4 Installing and setting up managed systems
- 5 Configuring monitoring services
- 6 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 6.1 Introduction to the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 6.2 Registering items in the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 6.3 Copying software to the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 6.3.1 Copying RHEL into the local repository on the CMS
- 6.3.2 Copying RHEL into a remote repository
- 6.3.3 Copying SLES into the repository
- 6.3.4 Copying virtual machine OS into the repository
- 6.3.5 Copying a custom OS into the repository
- 6.3.6 Automating a custom OS installation
- 6.3.7 Downloading and copying PSPs into the repository
- 6.4 Editing and deleting registered items
- 7 Installing operating systems on managed systems
- 7.1 Linux OS installation overview
- 7.2 Using Kickstart or AutoYaST files for unattended installations
- 7.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems
- 7.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems
- 7.5 Installing SLES on managed systems
- 7.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems
- 7.7 Installing another variant of Linux on managed systems
- 7.8 Generic procedure for installing an OS on one or more managed systems
- 8 Using HP Insight Control for Linux to update HP ProLiant firmware
- 8.1 Overview of updating HP ProLiant firmware
- 8.2 Basic firmware update functionality
- 8.2.1 Initial setup
- 8.2.2 Updating firmware on systems known by HP SIM
- 8.2.3 Updating firmware on systems during bare-metal discovery
- 8.2.4 Viewing the results of a firmware update
- 8.2.5 Specifying HPSUM option flags
- 8.2.6 Adding or removing firmware files from the firmware tar file
- 8.2.7 Firmware update time out
- 8.3 Advanced firmware update functionality
- 9 Installing PSPs on managed systems
- 10 Capturing and deploying Linux images
- 10.1 Overview of capturing and deploying Linux images
- 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 HP Insight Control for Linux partition wizard overview
- 11 Understanding tasks and task results
- 12 Installing and setting up virtual machines
- 13 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections for monitoring
- 14 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems
- 14.1 HP Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview
- 14.2 Nagios overview
- 14.3 Using Nagios
- 14.4 Services monitored by Nagios
- 14.5 Understanding Nagios alert messages
- 14.6 Understanding system event log monitoring
- 14.7 Configuring Nagios email alerts
- 14.8 Monitoring Metrics in real time
- 14.8.1 Performance Dashboard overview
- 14.8.2 Performance Dashboard features
- 14.8.3 Performance Dashboard requirements
- 14.8.4 Interpreting the data in a ring plot
- 14.8.5 Launching the Performance Dashboard tool
- 14.8.6 Using the mouse buttons to manipulate the Performance Dashboard tool
- 14.8.7 Performance Dashboard tool metrics
- 14.8.8 Customizing the Performance Dashboard tool metrics
- 15 Customizing Nagios
- 15.1 Changing the Nagios user
- 15.2 Adjusting the Nagios configuration
- 15.2.1 Stopping and restarting Nagios before performing maintenance operations
- 15.2.2 Modifying the nagios_vars.ini file to change the Nagios configuration
- 15.2.3 Changing sensor threshold values
- 15.2.4 Rebuilding the nagios_vars.ini file for changes to take effect
- 15.2.5 Adjusting the time allotted for metrics collection
- 15.2.6 Disabling individual Nagios plug-ins
- 15.3 Changing Nagios default settings
- 15.4 Changing the rotation of system event logs and changing the rules file
- 15.5 Controlling Nagios messages
- 15.6 Modifying the Nagios password file
- 16 Using the command line to view managed system status
- 16.1 Archiving sensor metrics on an individual basis
- 16.2 Displaying usage, statistics, and metrics with the shownode command
- 16.3 Displaying environmental data
- 16.4 Reporting usage information and host and service status
- 17 Remote server controls
- 18 Connecting to a remote console
- 19 Using SSH for remote server management
- 20 Managing licenses
- 21 Miscellaneous topics
- 21.1 Changing management processor credentials
- 21.2 Changing the default port for the repository web server
- 21.3 Increasing the number of servers that can be discovered concurrently
- 21.4 Changing the IP address of the CMS
- 21.5 Uninstalling HP Insight Control for Linux
- 21.6 Determining the installed HP Insight Control for Linux version
- 21.7 Event logging overview
- 21.8 Changing the number of concurrent tasks
- 21.9 Support for HP ProLiant DL1xx series servers
- 21.10 Setting up the DHCP server for virtual guests
- 22 Advanced topics
- 23 Troubleshooting
- 23.1 General troubleshooting topics
- 23.2 Alternative booting
- 23.3 Apache service does not start
- 23.4 Troubleshooting CMF problems
- 23.5 Troubleshooting configuration problems
- 23.6 Troubleshooting connection problems
- 23.7 Troubleshooting DHCP problems
- 23.8 Troubleshooting discovery problems
- 23.9 Troubleshooting firmware update problems
- 23.10 Troubleshooting Insight Control for Linux repository problems
- 23.11 Troubleshooting large scale deployment problems
- 23.12 Troubleshooting licensing problems
- 23.13 Troubleshooting monitoring problems
- 23.14 Nagios Troubleshooting
- 23.14.1 Determining the status of the Nagios service
- 23.14.2 Examining Nagios log files
- 23.14.3 Running Nagios plug-ins manually
- 23.14.4 Using the Nagios report generator analyze mode
- 23.14.5 Messages reported by Nagios
- 23.14.6 A check_nrpe error occurs during management agents installation
- 23.14.7 Nagios gather_all_data script reports check_nrpe errors
- 23.14.8 Troubleshooting Nagios problems
- 23.15 Troubleshooting OS installation and image deployment problems
- 23.16 Troubleshooting PSP installation failures
- 23.17 Troubleshooting the run script and run SSH command tools
- 23.18 Troubleshooting server power control problems
- 23.19 Troubleshooting server-to-management processor associations
- 23.20 Troubleshooting SNMP problems
- 23.21 Troubleshooting SSH credentials
- 23.22 Troubleshooting SSH Delays
- 23.23 Troubleshooting supermon problems
- 23.24 Troubleshooting syslog-ng problems
- 23.25 Troubleshooting HP Insight Control for Linux tool problems
- 23.26 Troubleshooting virtual machine installation and setup problems
- 23.27 Troubleshooting virtual media problems
- 24 Support and other resources
- A Sample SLES version 9 installation media copy session
- Glossary
- Index
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| Pages: | 86 |
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- HP Insight Control
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key concepts
- 3 Basic procedures
- Getting started
- Licensing power management systems
- Using power management with Systems Insight Manager
- Configuring power management options
- Opening the Power/Thermal Analysis view
- Understanding the Power/Thermal Analysis view
- Understanding/Using the Physical Location
- Understanding the Define Rack page
- Defining a rack
- Defining a data center
- Defining a power delivery device
- Defining a undiscoverable system
- Describing Power Delivery Hierarchy
- Finding available capacity in racks and power delivery devices
- Ensuring the sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center
- Visualizing the layout of systems or devices in racks
- Generating reports and graphs
- Configuring/Changing HP Power Regulator and Power Cap settings
- Configuring and scheduling alerts
- Downloading historical data in CSV format
- Opening the Data Center Power Control Rules page
- Defining and managing rules using Data Center Power Control
- Viewing rule simulation/execution results
- Enabling system shutdown through Data Center Power Control
- Accessing power management using web services interface
- 4 Managing power and cooling facilities in your data center
- Task: Importing power configuration from external databases
- Task: Monitoring the power and cooling requirements of your IT equipment
- Task: Ensuring the sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center
- Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure
- Task: Getting notified of unexpected or excessive power consumption
- Task: Validating delivery of redundant power to systems
- Task: Determining trapped capacity in your data center
- Task: Reclaiming power/thermal capacity for a new system
- Task: Classifying systems by business criticality
- Task: Defining rules to reduce power consumption
- Task: Defining rules for external events
- Task: Delegating rule authorization for operators
- Support and other resources
- A Command reference
- B Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
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- HP Insight Control Power Management 7.2 User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key concepts
- 3 Managing power and cooling facilities in your data center
- Task: Importing power configuration from third-party management software
- Task: Importing power configuration from external databases
- Task: Monitoring the power and cooling requirements of your IT equipment
- Task: Ensuring sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center
- Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure
- Task: Getting notified of unexpected or excessive power consumption
- Task: Validating delivery of redundant power to systems
- Task: Determining trapped capacity in your data center
- Task: Reclaiming power/thermal capacity for a new system
- Task: Controlling the power of the PDU outlets
- Task: Generating power topology for BladeSystem enclosures through iPDUs
- Task: Classifying systems by business criticality
- Task: Defining rules to reduce power consumption
- Task: Defining rules for external events
- Task: Delegating rule authorization for operators
- Task: Notification of Power Management Events
- Task: Limiting the power consumption in the data center during events
- Task: Gracefully shutting down virtual machines
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 Support and other resources
- 6 Documentation Feedback
- A Capability matrix
- Glossary
- Index