HP OneView for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization - Manual (Page 5)

1 Overview of HP Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
By collecting system health and inventory data and monitoring events from a variety of physical
sources, HP Insight Control for RHEV provides information you can use to manage your HP ProLiant
hosts and to take appropriate actions as determined by your site policies. HP Insight Control for
RHEV integrates with the RHEV Management Console (RHEV-M) GUI to provide a single point from
which to manage both the virtualization and HP ProLiant HW environments.
This guide describes how to use HP Insight Control for RHEV to perform everyday system monitoring
tasks as well as to facilitate management tasks in the RHEV-M environment. HP Insight Control for
RHEV will allow you to:
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Manage your HP ProLiant servers
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View inventory data about HP ProLiant servers, blade enclosures and Virtual Connect modules
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View performance and health data about HP ProLiant host servers, blade enclosures and
Virtual Connect modules
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Take corrective action in response to events
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Control servers using the iLO interface
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Link to the iLO, iLO Remote Console, Onboard Administrator, or Virtual Connect user interfaces
for a selected host being viewed in RHEV-M
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Log HP hardware events to RHEV-M
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Visualize networking connections from RHEV-defined networks, through physical NIC ports
and Virtual Connect, to uplinked external switches
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Generate reports of HP hardware inventory details through RHEV-M's reporting infrastructure
NOTE: HP Insight Control for RHEV supports HTML 5 browsers, including:
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Mozilla Firefox 17 and Later
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Google Chrome
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and later
When you first access HP Insight Control for RHEV, click the HP Insight Control tab, located at the
top of the RHEV-M screen. The HP Insight Control for RHEV Welcome tab appears:
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