Software for Linux Owner's manual

• Configuring network parameters
• Installing an operating system and agents from the SPP or PSP
• Configuring monitoring services
After a server becomes a managed system, you can monitor it and manage it.
1.2 Integration with Systems Insight Manager
Insight Control for Linux is a suite of software and tools that combine to provide a powerful
mechanism for discovering, installing, monitoring, and managing HP ProLiant servers. Insight
Control for Linux enhances the free system monitoring and system management features of Systems
Insight Manager (HP SIM).
The underlying foundation of Insight Control for Linux is HP SIM, with plug-in tools to perform the
software installation, monitoring, and management tasks. Insight Control for Linux enables you to
manage and monitor a range of objects including Linux servers, switches, and enclosures. For the
version of HP SIM required, see the HP Insight Control for Linux Support Matrix.
To access and use Insight Control for Linux features through HP SIM, you must apply an Insight
Control for Linux license to each server you want Insight Control for Linux to manage and monitor.
HP SIM and Insight Control for Linux tasks are launched from the server you configured as the
CMS.
1.3 Insight Control for Linux extensions to HP SIM
Table 1 lists the Insight Control for Linux features, by category, that are integrated with HP SIM.
NOTE: The majority of Insight Control for Linux features only run on systems whose type is
Server.
The OS installation and Linux image deployment tools appear in the HP Insight Control user
interface; only if servers were discovered in HP SIM. After an object of type Server is discovered,
the Insight Control for Linux menu items appear in the HP Insight Control user interface.
Table 1 Insight Control for Linux extensions to the HP Insight Control user interface;
Documented inDescriptionMenu item
Insight Control for Linux configuration
Section 19.3
(page 154)
Configures or reconfigures monitoring services (syslog-ng, pdsh,
CMF, Nagios, Supermon).
Options→IC-Linux→Configure
Management Services
Use this menu item during the initial configuration of Insight Control
for Linux, then any time you add or remove a managed system
from the Insight Control for Linux collection.
Also installs the Insight Control for Linux management agents on
the selected managed systems.
Section 19.4
(page 156)
Deploys Insight Control for Linux management agents to selected
managed systems.
Deploy→Deploy Drivers,
Firmware and
This functionality is incorporated in the
Options→IC-Linux→Configure Management Services menu item.
Agents→IC-Linux→Install
Agents...
Section 7.4
(page 76)
This standalone tool allows you to configure the boot method that
other Insight Control for Linux tools will use. The available boot
methods are PXE or virtual media.
Options→IC-Linux→Configure
Boot Method
This tool performs this configuration only and no other actions.
When using this tool, be sure to specify the server as the target.
Chapter 6
(page 59)
The Define Networks tool provides an interface through which the
administrator can create and edit network definitions that can be
Options→IC-Linux→Define
Networks
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