A.05.80 HP Insight Remote Support Advanced Service Brief: Read Before Installing (October 2012)

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HP Insight Remote Support Advanced

A.05.80 Service Brief

Read Before Installing

Contents

Overview .............................................................................................................................................................. 3

Communication .................................................................................................................................................... 3

Managed Systems Configuration ......................................................................................................................... 4

Validation .............................................................................................................................................................. 8

Required Reading and Useful References ........................................................................................................... 8

Sixth edition: October 2012

Summary of content (9 pages)

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HP Insight Remote Support Advanced A.05.80 Service Brief Read Before Installing Contents Overview .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Communication .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Managed Systems Configuration .........................................................
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Overview For a successful installation of the Insight Remote Support Advanced solution you must read the relevant documentation and follow the instructions. This service brief highlights critical processes necessary for a successful installation. Throughout this document you will see references to HP Insight Remote Support Advanced documentation, which is available at: http://www.hp.com/go/insightremoteadvanced-docs.
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Managed Systems Configuration After you understand (and in some cases select) your communication for your Managed Systems to communicate with the CMS, you must then configure the Managed Systems accordingly. Use the processes documented in the specific chapters for your Managed System type in the HP Insight Remote Support Advanced Managed Systems Configuration Guide to configure your Managed Systems to meet the configuration requirements outlined below.
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Managed System Configuration Requirements It is extremely important that you read the relevant Managed Systems chapter in the Insight Remote Support Advanced Managed Systems Configuration Guide to correctly configure Insight Remote Support.
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Table 1 Required Managed System Communication Protocols and Components for Insight RSA Services Hardware Platform Required Protocols and Components Notes Integrity Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator WBEM and WS-Man and HTTPS Discovery uses WS-Man and collections use HTTPS. The OA is managed using WS-Man, but the Superdome 2 partitions are managed using WBEM. See the “Integrity Superdome 2 Server Configuration” chapter in the Managed Systems Configuration Guide.
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Table 1 Required Managed System Communication Protocols and Components for Insight RSA Services Hardware Platform Required Protocols and Components Notes MSA2xxx SNMP Configuration collections are not supported. See the “Modular Smart Array Configuration” chapter in the Managed Systems Configuration Guide. MSA23xx SNMP and WBEM Install the WBEM MSA2000 providers on the host device. See the “Modular Smart Array Configuration” chapter in the Managed Systems Configuration Guide.
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Table 2 Required Managed System Communication Protocols and Components for SAN Services Devices Hardware Platform Required Protocols and Components Notes VMware ESX SSH Password or SSH certificate The system collects from the HOST; the system does not collect from the hosted device. EVA Command View client The credentials are command view but the system discovers the device via SMI-S in HP SIM via the host. On RSS, the system discovers with Command View.
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References The following web pages and/or documents will help you learn more about the given topic:  ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) information http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/psp/index.html?jumpid=servers/psp  WBEM Information http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/wbem/ index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN  WBEM Providers Supported Systems http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12927_div/ 12927_div.