Software for Linux Owner's manual

11.3.2.2 Installing a SLES KVM virtual guest...............................................................124
11.3.3 Guidelines for configuring a Xen virtual guest........................................................125
11.4 Obtaining virtual guest and virtual host associations......................................................127
11.5 Establishing monitoring for virtual hosts and virtual guests...............................................128
11.6 Virtual guest operations.............................................................................................128
12 Using Insight Control for Linux to update HP ProLiant firmware.................130
12.1 Overview of updating HP ProLiant firmware..................................................................130
12.2 Basic firmware update functionality.............................................................................130
12.2.1 Initial setup.......................................................................................................131
12.2.2 Updating firmware on systems known by HP SIM...................................................131
12.2.3 Updating firmware on systems during bare-metal discovery.....................................132
12.2.4 Viewing the results of a firmware update..............................................................132
12.2.5 Specifying HPSUM option flags...........................................................................132
12.2.6 Adding or removing firmware files from the firmware tar file....................................133
12.2.7 Firmware update time out...................................................................................133
12.3 Advanced firmware update functionality......................................................................134
12.3.1 Understanding the firmware configuration file........................................................134
12.3.2 Example firmware configuration files....................................................................135
13 Installing SPPs and PSPs on managed systems.......................................136
13.1 Overview of the SPP and PSP installation tool................................................................136
13.2 Required SPP and PSP components.............................................................................136
13.3 Creating a SPP or PSP dependency script....................................................................137
13.4 SPP or PSP installation procedure................................................................................138
14 ISO control operations.......................................................................140
14.1 Booting an ISO image on a server..............................................................................140
14.2 Inserting an ISO image.............................................................................................140
14.3 Ejecting an ISO image..............................................................................................140
15 Remote server controls.......................................................................141
15.1 Powering off a managed system..................................................................................141
15.2 Powering on a managed system.................................................................................141
15.3 Rebooting a managed system....................................................................................141
15.4 HP Insight Control power management........................................................................141
16 Using SSH for remote server management............................................142
16.1 Setting SSH credentials on managed systems................................................................142
16.2 Setting SSH credentials for users.................................................................................142
16.3 Running a command on multiple managed systems.......................................................143
16.4 Using Insight Control for Linux to run commands and scripts through SSH.........................144
16.4.1 Running an SSH command.................................................................................144
16.4.2 Running a Linux script........................................................................................144
III Monitoring............................................................................................146
17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections.......................................147
17.1 Introduction to collections...........................................................................................147
17.2 Populating a collection..............................................................................................148
17.3 Adding servers and switches to an Insight Control for Linux collection...............................148
17.4 Removing a managed system or switch from an Insight Control for Linux collection.............149
18 Setting up management hubs..............................................................151
18.1 About management hubs...........................................................................................151
18.2 Creating a management hub.....................................................................................151
18.3 Removing a management hub....................................................................................153
19 Configuring monitoring services..........................................................154
19.1 Overview of monitoring..............................................................................................154
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