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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 website:
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 website:
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 comprehensive monitoring,
remote control, and power optimization directly from the vCenter console.
HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center and HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server are not
included in the Insight software media kit; however, you can download them from the following website:
The installation instructions and other documentation are included in the ISO images.
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