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5 Integrating HP Systems Insight Manager

The iLO firmware is integrated with HP SIM in key operating environments, providing a single
management console from a standard web browser. While the operating system is running, you
can establish a connection to iLO by using HP SIM.

Integration with HP SIM provides the following:

Support for SNMP trap delivery to an HP SIM console—The HP SIM console can be configured
to forward SNMP traps to a pager or email address.

Support for management processors—All iLO devices installed in servers on the network are
discovered in HP SIM as management processors.

Grouping of iLO management processors—All iLO devices can be grouped logically and
displayed on one page.

HP Management Agents or Agentless Management—iLO, combined with Agentless
Management or the HP Management Agents, provides remote access to system management
information through the iLO web interface.

Support for SNMP management—HP SIM can access Insight Management Agent information
through iLO.

HP SIM features

HP SIM enables you to do the following:

Identify iLO processors.

Create an association between an iLO processor and its server.

Create links between an iLO processor and its server.

View iLO and server information and status.

Control the amount of information displayed for iLO.

The following sections summarize these features. For detailed information, see the HP Systems
Insight Manager User Guide
.

Establishing SSO with HP SIM

1.

Configure iLO for HP SIM SSO and add HP SIM trusted servers.

For instructions, see

“Configuring iLO for HP SSO” (page 80)

.

2.

Log in to the HP SIM server that you specified in

Step 1

, and discover the iLO processor.

After you complete the discovery process, SSO is enabled for iLO.

For more information about HP SIM discovery tasks, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User
Guide
.

iLO identification and association

HP SIM can identify an iLO processor and create an association between iLO and a server. You
can configure iLO to respond to HP SIM identification requests by setting the Level of Data Returned
value on the Administration

→Management page. For more information, see

“Configuring Insight

Management integration” (page 116)

.

Viewing iLO status in HP SIM

HP SIM identifies iLO as a management processor. HP SIM displays the management processor
status on the All Systems page.

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