hp insight manager (1)

8/2/2019 Hp Insight Manager (1)

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Topics Covered

HP Hardware – Firmware

BIOS Features

iLO/RiLO

Platform Support Pack

Drivers Extended Feature Supplement

Insight Management Agents

SNMP Software Station



HP Infrastructre

Remind me, why am I doing this?

ProLiant Servers are equipped with hardware andfirmware to monitor certain abnormal conditions suchas abnormal temperature readings, fan failures, ECC

memory errors, etc and the above will monitor theseconditions and report it to the administrator byprinting a message on the console, and also loggingthe condition into the Pro- Liant IntegratedManagement Log (IML). The Insight Manager agents

can also be used to notify the administrator of abnormal conditions.



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HP – BIOS Features – Automatic Server Recovery

ASR-2 is a feature that causes the system to restart when acatastrophic operating system error occurs, such as a bluescreen, ABEND (abnormal end), or panic. A system fail-safetimer, the ASR-2 timer, starts when the System Managementdriver, also known as the Health Driver, is loaded. When theoperating system is functioning properly, the system periodicallyresets the timer. However, when the operating system fails, thetimer expires and restarts the server.

ASR-2 increases server availability by restarting the server withina specified time after a system hang or shutdown. At the sametime, the Insight Manager 7 console notifies you by sending a

message to a designated pager number that ASR-2 has restartedthe system. You can disable ASR-2 from the Insight Manager 7console or through RBSU.



HP BIOS Features

Taken from an HP Manual on a DL380 G3 Proliant Server:

ASR Status enables or disables ASR. By default, this setting isEnabled

ASR Timeout sets a timeout limit for resetting a server that isnot responding. The default timeout limit is 10 minutes.

Thermal Shutdown determines when the server automaticallypowers down due to dangerous temperatures. When the settingis enabled, the Health Driver initiates a shutdown of the system

when the server temperature is within 5 degrees of critical level.When the setting is disabled, the Health Driver shuts down thesystem at critical level. By default, this setting is Enabled.



Thermal Shutdown

With the Health Driver loaded and Thermal Shutdown enabled in RBSU,the Health Driver performs an orderly shutdown if it detects a cautionarytemperature level. If the server detects a critical temperature levelbefore the orderly shutdown occurs, the server performs an immediateshutdown. Additionally, the Health Driver performs an orderly shutdownif the following minimum requirements are not met: one working fan inthe I/O zone, five working fans in the processor zone, and one working

fan in the power supply zone.

With the Health Driver loaded and Thermal Shutdown disabled in RBSU,the server performs an immediate shutdown if it detects a criticaltemperature level.

Without Health Driver loaded, the server performs an immediateshutdown if it detects a critical temperature level.

IMPORTANT: An immediate shutdown is a hardware-controlledfunction and it overrides any firmware or software actions.



Integrated Lights Out – iLO/RiLO’s

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Platform Support Pack – PSP



Installing the EFS …

Only pick the appropriate drivers so as not to install and rundrivers and daemons which are unnecessary in production.Installing inappropriate utilities can cause performance problemsas these daemons will be probing for hardware you may nothave.

You will need to install the "ASM" (casm), Health Event Logging(cpqw) and Remote Insight Board (crid) drivers if you wish to usethe Compaq Insight Management tools. The "crid" would beoptional depending on where you were using or had installed aRiLO or ILO Integrated Lights Out Board.

NB. The hpASM XL is for G5 servers and above and it will not benecessary to select the Health Event Logging daemon as it willfail when "hpasmxl" is selected.



The Insight Management Agents

HP Insight Management Agents Installation Login as super user to SCO Unix System.

Change to directory containing MgmtAgents; execute"./install.sh" and follow the prompts to complete installation of Foundation, Server, Storage and NIC

Insight Management Agents Point a web browser at the system and key in

http://[IP_ADDRESS]:2301 or http://[machine_name]:2301.This will bring up the device home page for the server if it isrunning web-enabled management software, and display a list of

the components. administrator and administrator



2301 Web Browsing



Compaq Insight Management SNMP Software

To receive SNMP Traps to a PC which is running theInsight Management Software then install either thelast 32Bit GUI version of the software, v5.50, availablefrom HP which runs on NT4, Windows 2000, XP etc

Or install the latest Version which will require aversion of MSDE to be installed and will need aminimum of 512MB of RAM to run and in both casesyou MUST install and run this as the Administrator toreceive SNMP Traps and add new servers.



Insight Management Station



Not taking Notes … No problem

Is all this documented somewhere to make it easy? http://www.sco.com/ta/116163

http://www.sco.com/ta/111742

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/manag

ement/cim49-description.html

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/cim49-description.html








Questionnaire

Where is the Automatic Server Recovery and ThermalShutdown enabled/disabled?

Can you tell me how you connect to an HP iLO or RiLOboard?

Can you tell me how to connect to the HP Insight

Management Web Agent?



Questions?

Thank you for your attention Any questions?

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