HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server - Manual (Page 20)

Table 1 HP ESO tasks (continued)
For more information... Task to perform...
“Viewing and controlling CPU
assignment parameters and View information about CPU (processor) affinity (thread associations) and enable
optimization recommendations
optimization
recommendations” (page 50)
“Viewing and controlling SQL
Server startup options” (page 58) View SQL startup information and set trace flags to modify SQL Server behavior
“Viewing and controlling storage
parameters and optimization
recommendations” (page 60) View storage information and enable optimization recommendations
“Viewing and controlling network
parameters and optimization
recommendations” (page 61) View network information and enable optimization recommendations
“Viewing and controlling system
parameters and optimization
recommendations” (page 67) View system information, including status of add-on PCI controllers, system software,
drivers, and firmware versions; and enable optimization recommendations
“Software Discovery ” (page 67) Run Software Discovery
“Workload and Performance
History” (page 68) Configure and view (or export) data collection reports
“Save/Rollback Configuration”
(page 70) Save or restore parameter settings for all connected SQL instances and the system
configuration
“Using the online help Welcome
page” (page 72) Using online help
“Using a PowerShell script to
apply all recommended Using a PowerShell scripts to apply recommended optimization values and to perform
software discovery
optimization values of settable
parameters and to initialize
software discovery” (page 75)
Getting started
This section provides basic information to start using HP ESO.
Launching HP ESO
To access and start HP ESO, you must launch the HP System Management Homepage (SMH)
software. SMH is the starting point HP ESO and many other HP server management tools. Follow
these steps to launch SMH and start HP ESO:
1.
From the target system Desktop, click Start
→All Programs→HP Management Agents→HP
System Management Homepage.
2. When the security certificate warning displays (see Figure 10 (page 21) ), click Continue to
this website.
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