HP Insight Control for Linux 7.0 User Guide

11.4 Obtaining virtual guest and virtual host associations......................................................126
11.5 Establishing monitoring for virtual hosts and virtual guests...............................................127
11.6 Virtual guest operations.............................................................................................127
12 Using Insight Control for Linux to update HP ProLiant firmware.................129
12.1 Overview of updating HP ProLiant firmware..................................................................129
12.2 Basic firmware update functionality.............................................................................129
12.2.1 Initial setup.......................................................................................................130
12.2.2 Updating firmware on systems known by HP SIM...................................................130
12.2.3 Updating firmware on systems during bare-metal discovery.....................................130
12.2.4 Viewing the results of a firmware update..............................................................131
12.2.5 Specifying HPSUM option flags...........................................................................131
12.2.6 Adding or removing firmware files from the firmware tar file....................................131
12.2.7 Firmware update time out...................................................................................132
12.3 Advanced firmware update functionality......................................................................132
12.3.1 Understanding the firmware configuration file........................................................132
12.3.2 Example firmware configuration files....................................................................133
13 Installing PSPs on managed systems.....................................................135
13.1 Overview of the PSP installation tool............................................................................135
13.2 Required PSP components..........................................................................................135
13.3 Creating a PSP dependency script..............................................................................136
13.4 PSP installation procedure..........................................................................................137
14 ISO control operations.......................................................................139
14.1 Booting an ISO image on a server..............................................................................139
14.2 Inserting an ISO image.............................................................................................139
14.3 Ejecting an ISO image..............................................................................................139
15 Remote server controls.......................................................................140
15.1 Powering off a managed system..................................................................................140
15.2 Powering on a managed system.................................................................................140
15.3 Rebooting a managed system....................................................................................140
15.4 HP Insight Control power management........................................................................140
16 Using SSH for remote server management............................................141
16.1 Setting SSH credentials on managed systems................................................................141
16.2 Setting SSH credentials for users.................................................................................141
16.3 Running a command on multiple managed systems.......................................................142
16.4 Using Insight Control for Linux to run commands and scripts through SSH.........................143
16.4.1 Running an SSH command.................................................................................143
16.4.2 Running a Linux script........................................................................................143
III Monitoring............................................................................................145
17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections.......................................146
17.1 Introduction to collections...........................................................................................146
17.2 Populating a collection..............................................................................................147
17.3 Adding servers and switches to an Insight Control for Linux collection...............................147
17.4 Removing a managed system or switch from an Insight Control for Linux collection.............148
18 Setting up management hubs..............................................................150
18.1 About management hubs...........................................................................................150
18.2 Creating a management hub.....................................................................................150
18.3 Removing a management hub....................................................................................152
19 Configuring monitoring services..........................................................153
19.1 Overview of monitoring..............................................................................................153
19.2 Configuring a self-signed Apache certificate on the CMS...............................................153
19.3 Starting management and monitoring services .............................................................153
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