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1 Introduction to using HP Insight Control
Insight Control is a product in the HP Insight software family of products that is delivered on
the Insight software distribution media. Insight Control is installed through the HP Insight
Software Installer wizard, which integrates the installation and upgrade of all Insight software
products.
If you need to know more about installing Insight Control, see the Insight software installation
documentation at the following web site:
This chapter provides an introduction to using the features and capabilities delivered by Insight
Control and how it is integrated into HP Systems Insight Manager.
How to use this guide
This guide is intended to be a quick starting point for you to learn about all Insight Control
features and capabilities and how to launch them. Because the HP Insight Software Installer
wizard gave you the option to install all or to selectively install a customized list of Insight Control
features, the user documentation for each feature is modularized in its own user guide. So, if
you want more information about a particular feature that is not provided in this guide, see the
detailed user guides for the Insight Control feature or features you want to learn more about.
Individual Insight Control feature focused user guides are available online at the following web
site:
Insight Control integration with Systems Insight Manager
Insight Control delivers a set of software and tools that combine with Systems Insight Manager
to provide a powerful mechanism for discovering, installing, monitoring, and managing HP
ProLiant servers. Insight Control enhances the system monitoring, management, and deployment
features of Systems Insight Manager.
Insight Control provides a number of plug-in tools to Systems Insight Manager that enable you
to perform software deployment, monitoring, and management tasks. Insight Control features
enable you to manage and monitor a range of objects including servers, switches, and enclosures.
To access and use Insight Control features through the Systems Insight Manager management
console, the Central Management Server (CMS), you must have installed Insight Control as part
of the Insight software installation process. After installation, you must apply a license to each
server you want to manage and monitor with Insight Control.
If you did not apply a license to each server during the initial installation and configuration of
Insight software, use the HP Insight managed system setup wizard or the Systems Insight Manager
license manager to do so. See
Chapter 2 “Adding and applying licenses”
for instructions.
Systems Insight Manager and Insight Control features are launched from the server you chose
to be the CMS, the server on which you installed Systems Insight Manager and Insight Control.
Alternative consoles
As an alternative management console to the CMS, you can install HP Insight Control for Microsoft
System Center software onto the System Center Operations Manager and System Center
Configuration Manager consoles rather than on a Systems Insight Manager CMS console.
If you have chosen a VMware vCenter Server as your primary console, you can install HP Insight
Control for VMware vCenter Server software which adds several extensions to make the ProLiant
management information available through the VMware vCenter Server console, enabling
How to use this guide
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