HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center Installation Guide

1 Overview
HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center is a fully integrated product that unifies the
management of physical and virtual IT environments, including servers, PCs, storage, networking
devices and software. It combines an integrated set of HP extensions with Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager (SCOM), Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to bring native manageability of HP
hardware to Microsoft System Center environments.
To learn more about this product, see the HP Insight Control Integrations website at:
http://www.hp.com/go/icsc
This guide is intended for use by system integrators and network administrators who are familiar
with HP-branded server system products and Microsoft System Center.
There are separate user guides for each of the features in HP Insight Control for Microsoft System
Center. For the complete set of documentation for the current release of this product, see the
Information Library at:
http://www.hp.com/go/icsc/docs
NOTE: This document refers to the HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center DVD. This DVD
must be created from the DVD ISO image you download from the HP Insight Control Integrations
website at:
https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPICE
Licensing
HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center is licensed as part of HP Insight Control. There are
no separate license keys. You must have one Insight Control license for each server that is managed
by HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center.
Prerequisites, supported software, and supported hardware
HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center does not require or depend on the presence of an
HP Systems Insight Manager console.
For a complete description of prerequisites, supported software, and supported hardware for the
current release of this product, see the following documents:
• For information about the features provided by the HP SCOM Management Packs, see the
HP SCOM Management Packs User Guide.
• For information about the features provided by the HP SCCM 2007 Integration Kit, see the
HP ProLiant SCCM 2007 Integration Kit User Guide.
• For information about the features provided by the HP SCCM 2012 Integration Kit, see the
HP ProLiant SCCM 2012 Integration Kit User Guide.
• For information about the features provided by the HP SCVMM Integration Kit, see the HP
ProLiant SCVMM 2012 Integration Kit User Guide.
• For information about the HP ProLiant Updates Catalog, see the HP ProLiant Updates Catalog
User Guide.
• For information about the HP Server Updates Catalog, see the HP Server Updates Catalog
User Guide.
For the complete set of documentation for the current release of this product, see the Information
Library at:
http://www.hp.com/go/icsc/docs
4 Overview