HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.6.0-00 Administrator Guide (Web Version)

If both Host Data Collector and the Device Manager agent manage information about normal
hosts or virtual machines, the Device Manager GUI or CLI uses the information acquired by the
Device Manager agent.
• With Host Data Collector:
Host Data Collector can manage normal hosts, virtual machines, and virtualization servers.
Network hosts that are found from the Device Manager GUI or CLI are registered in Device
Manager.
• With Device Manager agent:
The Device Manager agent can manage normal hosts and virtual machines.
When the Device Manager agent is installed on a host, the host is registered in Device Manager.
• With vMA:
vMA can manage virtualization servers.
Virtualization servers that are managed by vMA and found from the Device Manager GUI or CLI
are registered in Device Manager.
Note that vMA can manage only VMware ESX 4.x virtualization servers or VMware ESXi 4.x
virtualization servers.
• With P9000 mainframe agent:
The P9000 mainframe agent can manage mainframe hosts.
Using the Device Manager CLI, register both the mainframe hosts that you want to manage and
P9000 mainframe agent which you will use to manage those hosts, in Device Manager.
NOTE:
• Use vMA to manage virtualization servers in an environment in which Plug-in for Virtualization
Server Provisioning is used.
Related topics
• Software configuration, page 24
• Details about the hosts to be managed by the host management software: HP P9000 Command
View Advanced Edition Suite Software System Requirements
Prerequisites for normal hosts
To manage normal hosts by using Host Data Collector or the Device Manager agent, you must perform
environment setup of the normal hosts before registering them in Device Manager.
Prerequisites for normal hosts managed by Host Data Collector
To use Host Data Collector to manage normal hosts, install Host Data Collector, and then perform
environment setup on each normal host.
Host Data Collector comes with P9000 Command View AE Suite, which is installed on the management
server, but can also be installed on a computer other than the management server.
Before you register normal hosts in Device Manager, the following environment settings must already
be specified on the normal hosts. When managing a UNIX host, the environment settings that need
be specified on the UNIX host differ according to the UNIX account used to register the host in Device
Manager.
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