HP Servicecontrol Manager 3.0 User's Guide

HP Servicecontrol Manager Introduction
HP Servicecontrol Manager Overview
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HP Servicecontrol Manager Overview
SCM is an easy-to-use, multi-system management solution with a Web-enabled interface
and a command line interface. SCM delivers multi-system access to all key system
administration tools for fault monitoring, configuration, and workload management.
Administrators with multiple HP systems running primarily HP-UX or Linux benefit
the most from using SCM.
SCM provides management of more systems with increased control and decreased errors
throughout the IT environment. The biggest advantage is SCM's synergistic integration
of multiple administrative tasks providing a significant improvement in productivity for
virtually all multi-system configurations. In fact, sites with multiple HP servers with
similar or the same configurations experience as much as a 5x improvement in system
administration productivity when they implement SCM. SCM provides system
administrators with:
• Increased productivity through a single point of administration for HP-UX, Linux,
and Windows manageability tools (Windows manageability provided through
launching HP Proliant Insight Manager7)
• Increased efficiency through multi-system management capabilities such as group
operations and role-based management
• Improved security through roles-based management, authentication and encryption
• Ensured accountability through audit logging of changes across the IT environment
• Expanded flexibility through the use of customized scripts and commands executed
across multiple systems simultaneously
Features Benefits
Choice of management
interfaces– Web-enabled graphical
user interface or command line
interface
Provides options for remote
management that span an intuitive
graphical user interface to a command
line interface for fast, low-bandwidth
operations.
Group operations– simultaneously
launch management tasks across
multiple servers
Increases efficiencies, especially in
environments with large server farms
that have similar configurations.
Role-based management– assign
administrators access to certain
manageability tools for specific
managed nodes or node groups
Reduces error-caused downtime by
allowing the delegation of
administrative tasks without a
proliferation of root privileges.
Audit logging– log task information
including: 1) the target nodes; 2) the
result of the action; 3) the tool name
used to perform task; 4) the user
name who performed the task
Ensures accountability for actions and
tracks changes across the IT
environment.