HP Insight Control Software for Linux User Manual
Insight control for linux 7.0 user guide
Insight Control for Linux 7.0 User Guide
Abstract
This document describes how to set up and use Insight Control for Linux to monitor and manage HP ProLiant servers that were
licensed with Insight Control for Linux.
This document builds on the information from the HP Insight Control for Linux Installation Guide, which you used to install and
configure HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and Insight Control for Linux on the Central Management Server (CMS).
This document is for system administrators who are responsible for using Insight Control for Linux to manage and monitor
systems licensed for Insight Control for Linux.
It is helpful to have previous experience with HP SIM and a Linux operating system.
HP Part Number: 483100-007
Published: February 2012
Edition: 1
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Insight Control for Linux 7.0 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 Copying or downloading 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 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 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