HP OneView for Microsoft System Center - Manual (Page 6)

1 Overview
This guide is intended for system administrators who have standardized Microsoft System Center
as their primary management platform, and have adopted HP OneView.
You should be familiar with the configuration and operation of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), HP OneView, and HP OneView for Microsoft System
Center (formerly HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center). Because of the potential risk of
data loss, only individuals who are experienced with using this software should implement the
procedures described in this guide. This guide supplements the Microsoft System Center user
documentation.
Supported hardware and software information is included in “Support matrix” (page 9) . For links
to product documentation, see “Related information” (page 54) .
Introduction
HP delivers management packs that complement and extend Operations Manager 2012, integrating
alert processing, state monitoring, and hardware resource lifecycle management of HP OneView
appliance, as well as hardware management of supported enclosures and Virtual Connects being
managed by the appliances.
Designed specifically for Operations Manager 2012, the HP OneView Management Pack provides
predefined discoveries, views, monitors, event processing rules, and tasks which enable
administrators to proactively streamline IT operations and ensure increased systems availability by
monitoring Microsoft Windows environments and HP hardware platforms through a common
Operations Manager console.
For advanced hardware lifecycle management and remote administration of HP systems, the HP
OneView Management Pack for Operations Manager includes tasks that launch the HP OneView
web console for group systems administration.
Features
The HP OneView Management Pack has the following features:
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Discovery and inventory of supported HP OneView appliances.
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Health monitoring of HP OneView appliances.
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Console tasks to launch the HP OneView appliance web page.
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Console tasks which find the management server of the appliance in the HP Resource Pool.
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Monitors state change alerts of the appliance (healthy to critical).
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State monitoring for the HP OneView appliance and the HP hardware systems managed by
the HP OneView appliance.
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Predefined rules for processing and displaying Windows Event Log entries for Enclosure and
Virtual Connect alerts in Operation Manager Console sourced from HP OneView.
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HP OneView appliance and the HP systems managed by HP OneView represented in the
Diagram view.
6 Overview