HP Insight Control for Linux 6.3 Release Notes

1 Overview and description

1.1 Insight Control for Linux overview

Insight Control for Linux is a Linux-hosted management product for HP ProLiant servers in enterprise

environments and high performance workgroups. Insight Control for Linux is designed as a plug-in

to HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM).

In addition to advanced monitoring features, Insight Control for Linux provides a rich set of remote

software deployment features that enable you to deploy supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise

Linux (RHEL), Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), or other unsupported variants of Linux

operating systems over a network connection to managed systems.

The Insight Control for Linux software is installed on the server you have chosen to be the Central

Management Server (CMS). You connect to SIM on the CMS and all SIM and Insight Control for

Linux tasks and operations are initiated from the CMS.

1.2 Release overview

This release of Insight Control for Linux is an ISO image that you can use to perform a full installation

of Insight Control for Linux.

If the CMS is already installed with a previous release of Insight Control for Linux, a mechanism

is available for you to automatically upgrade the CMS to Version 6.3.

For information on the

action of the installation script when it detects a previous version of Insight Control for Linux, see

the HP Insight Control for Linux Support Matrix.

The Insight Control for Linux Version 6.3 distribution medium (DVD or ISO image) contains the

following software products and documentation:

• HP SIM

• HP Insight Control for Linux Version 6.3

• HP Insight Control power management Version 6.3

• HP Insight Control virtual machine management Version 6.3

• The source code for the open source products integrated with Insight Control for Linux

• A PDF file and a text file in the /DOCS directory that describes how to obtain the Insight Control

for Linux documentation set and documentation for related HP products from the World Wide

Web.

1.2.1 How to obtain the ISO image

The Insight Control for Linux Version 6.3 ISO image is available for download from the HP Software

Depot home page for Insight Control for Linux:

http://www.hp.com/go/Software-Depot-IC-Linux

1.3 New and changed features

This section describes the new and changed features introduced in this release:

1.3.1 Support for new servers

Support for the following HP ProLiant servers:

• DL120 G7, ML110 G7, SL160s G7, SL165s G7, SL335s G7

See the HP Insight Control for Linux Support Matrix for the full list of supported hardware platforms.

1. For information on how to perform a full installation of Insight Control for Linux or an upgrade from a previous version,

see the HP Insight Control for Linux Installation Guide.

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