HP Insight Control Software for Linux User Manual
Hp insight control for linux 7.1 user guide
Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP Insight Control for Linux 7.1 User Guide
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Using Insight Control for Linux
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Integration with Systems Insight Manager
- 1.3 Insight Control for Linux extensions to HP SIM
- 1.4 Insight Control for Linux toolboxes
- 1.5 Insight Control for Linux command environment
- 1.6 Internal task queuing and management
- 1.7 Synchronized system clocks
- 1.8 Insight Control for Linux RAM disk environment
- 1.9 Network configuration and DHCP requirements
- 1.10 Virtual media
- 1.11 Managed system names
- 1.12 Connecting to HP SIM
- 1.13 Backing up Insight Control for Linux files
- 2 Security
- 3 Managing licenses
- 4 Understanding tasks and task results
- 1 Using Insight Control for Linux
- Part II Deployment
- 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.1 Introduction to the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.2 Registering items in the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.3 Copying software to the Insight Control for Linux repository
- 5.3.1 Copying RHEL into the local repository on the CMS
- 5.3.2 Copying RHEL into a remote repository
- 5.3.3 Copying SLES into the repository
- 5.3.4 Copying virtual machine OS into the repository
- 5.3.5 Copying a custom OS into the repository
- 5.3.6 Automating a custom OS installation
- 5.3.7 Downloading SPPs and PSPs into the repository
- 5.4 Editing and deleting registered items
- 6 Configuring network parameters for virtual media
- 7 Discovering systems, switches, and enclosures
- 8 Setting up managed systems
- 9 Installing operating systems on managed systems
- 9.1 Linux OS installation overview
- 9.2 Using installation configuration files for unattended installations
- 9.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems
- 9.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems
- 9.5 Installing SLES on managed systems
- 9.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems
- 9.7 Installing another variant of Linux on managed systems
- 9.8 Generic procedure for installing an OS on one or more managed systems
- 10 Capturing and deploying Linux images
- 10.1 Overview of capturing and deploying Linux images
- 10.2 Prerequisites to capturing a Linux image
- 10.3 Capturing a Linux image from a managed system
- 10.4 Preparing for scalable deployment
- 10.5 Deploying a captured Linux image to one or more managed system
- 10.6 Insight Control for Linux partition wizard overview
- 11 Installing and setting up virtual machines
- 11.1 Installing virtual hosts
- 11.2 Registering the virtual host with Insight Control virtual machine management
- 11.3 Creating and installing virtual guests
- 11.4 Obtaining virtual guest and virtual host associations
- 11.5 Establishing monitoring for virtual hosts and virtual guests
- 11.6 Virtual guest operations
- 12 Using Insight Control for Linux to update HP ProLiant firmware
- 12.1 Overview of updating HP ProLiant firmware
- 12.2 Basic firmware update functionality
- 12.2.1 Initial setup
- 12.2.2 Updating firmware on systems known by HP SIM
- 12.2.3 Updating firmware on systems during bare-metal discovery
- 12.2.4 Viewing the results of a firmware update
- 12.2.5 Specifying HPSUM option flags
- 12.2.6 Adding or removing firmware files from the firmware tar file
- 12.2.7 Firmware update time out
- 12.3 Advanced firmware update functionality
- 13 Installing SPPs and PSPs on managed systems
- 14 ISO control operations
- 15 Remote server controls
- 16 Using SSH for remote server management
- 5 Managing the Insight Control for Linux repository
- Part III Monitoring
- 17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections
- 18 Setting up management hubs
- 19 Configuring monitoring services
- 20 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems
- 20.1 Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview
- 20.2 Nagios overview
- 20.3 Using Nagios
- 20.4 Services monitored by Nagios
- 20.5 Understanding Nagios alert messages
- 20.6 Understanding system event log monitoring
- 20.7 Configuring Nagios email alerts
- 20.8 Monitoring Metrics in real time
- 20.8.1 Performance Dashboard overview
- 20.8.2 Performance Dashboard features
- 20.8.3 Performance Dashboard requirements
- 20.8.4 Interpreting the data in a ring plot
- 20.8.5 Launching the Performance Dashboard tool
- 20.8.6 Using the mouse buttons to manipulate the Performance Dashboard tool
- 20.8.7 Performance Dashboard tool metrics
- 20.8.8 Customizing the Performance Dashboard tool metrics
- 21 Using the command line to view managed system status
- 21.1 Archiving sensor metrics on an individual basis
- 21.2 Displaying usage, statistics, and metrics with the shownode command
- 21.3 Displaying environmental data
- 21.4 Reporting usage information and host and service status
- 22 Connecting to a remote console
- Part IV Other topics
- 23 Miscellaneous topics
- 23.1 Changing management processor credentials
- 23.2 Changing the default port for the repository web server
- 23.3 Increasing the number of servers that can be discovered concurrently
- 23.4 Changing the IP address of the CMS
- 23.5 Uninstalling Insight Control for Linux
- 23.6 Determining the installed Insight Control for Linux version
- 23.7 Event logging overview
- 23.8 Changing the number of concurrent tasks
- 23.9 Support for HP ProLiant DL1xx series servers
- 23.10 Setting up the DHCP server for virtual guests
- 23.11 Uninstalling atftp and installing tftp
- 24 Advanced topics
- 23 Miscellaneous topics
- Part V Troubleshooting and support resources
- 25 Troubleshooting
- 25.1 General troubleshooting topics
- 25.2 Alternative booting
- 25.3 Apache service does not start
- 25.4 Troubleshooting CMF problems
- 25.5 Troubleshooting configuration problems
- 25.6 Troubleshooting connection problems
- 25.7 Troubleshooting DHCP problems
- 25.8 Troubleshooting discovery problems
- 25.9 Troubleshooting firmware update problems
- 25.10 Troubleshooting Insight Control for Linux repository problems
- 25.11 Troubleshooting large scale deployment problems
- 25.12 Troubleshooting licensing problems
- 25.13 Troubleshooting monitoring problems
- 25.14 Nagios Troubleshooting
- 25.14.1 Determining the status of the Nagios service
- 25.14.2 Examining Nagios log files
- 25.14.3 Running Nagios plug-ins manually
- 25.14.4 Using the Nagios report generator analyze mode
- 25.14.5 Messages reported by Nagios
- 25.14.6 A check_nrpe error occurs during management agents installation
- 25.14.7 Nagios gather_all_data script reports check_nrpe errors
- 25.14.8 Troubleshooting Nagios problems
- 25.15 Troubleshooting OS installation and image deployment problems
- 25.16 Troubleshooting SPP and PSP installation failures
- 25.17 Troubleshooting PXE Boot problems
- 25.18 Troubleshooting the run script and run SSH command tools
- 25.19 Troubleshooting server power control problems
- 25.20 Troubleshooting server-to-management processor associations
- 25.20.1 Maintaining server-to-management processor associations
- 25.20.2 Identifying a lost server-to-management processor association
- 25.20.3 Rebuilding a server-to-management processor association
- 25.20.3.1 Repairing the association of a booted managed system running an OS
- 25.20.3.2 Restoring the association of a bare-metal-discovered server blade
- 25.20.3.3 Repairing the association of an unbooted managed system without an OS
- 25.20.3.4 Establishing the association with a server after a bare metal discovery.
- 25.20.4 Establishing association between iLO and server
- 25.21 Troubleshooting SNMP problems
- 25.22 Troubleshooting SSH
- 25.23 Troubleshooting Supermon problems
- 25.24 Troubleshooting syslog-ng problems
- 25.25 Troubleshooting Insight Control for Linux tool problems
- 25.26 Troubleshooting uninstallation problems
- 25.27 Troubleshooting virtual machine installation and setup problems
- 25.28 Troubleshooting virtual media problems
- 26 Support and other resources
- 25 Troubleshooting
- A Customizing Nagios
- A.1 Changing the Nagios user
- A.2 Adjusting the Nagios configuration
- A.2.1 Stopping and restarting Nagios before performing maintenance operations
- A.2.2 Modifying the nagios_vars.ini file to change the Nagios configuration
- A.2.3 Changing sensor threshold values
- A.2.4 Rebuilding the nagios_vars.ini file for changes to take effect
- A.2.5 Adjusting the time allotted for metrics collection
- A.2.6 Disabling individual Nagios plug-ins
- A.3 Changing Nagios default settings
- A.4 Changing the rotation of system event logs and changing the rules file
- A.5 Controlling Nagios messages
- A.6 Modifying the Nagios password file
- Glossary
- Index