HP Integrity rx4610 Server - Manual (Page 9)

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3 Managing Remote Servers
Server Management Basics
The Intel Server Control components provide a means to communicate with a managed server, and to
perform administrative and troubleshooting tasks from a remote client.
Table 2 shows the typical tasks that a system administrator might do. They include normal system
administration, setting up system alerts so that an administrator is notified when something on the server
needs attention, and acting in response to server alerts or errors.
Table 2 System Administrator Tasks
Administer • Monitor system status
• Track system history
• Manage system assets
Alert • Configure sensor thresholds
• Configure alert actions
• Respond to alerts received from the managed server
• Configure Predictive Failure Notification
Act • Restore the server
• Diagnose the server
• Update the server
• Configure the server
• Repair the server
The following sections under “Server Management Tools” describe the tools used for the various server
management tasks. Refer to “Management Consoles” later in this chapter for a description of the available
management consoles. The section titled “Connecting to a Remote Server” describes the different methods
for communicating with a managed server.
Server Management Tools
Several tools exist for server management, each for a different purpose or for use in a different condition.
Tools are sometimes used together, or in sequence, to perform server management tasks.
The available tools for remote server management, described in the following paragraphs, include:
• Platform Instrumentation Control
• Direct Platform Control
• Server Management Configuration Utility
• Service Partition
• Remote Diagnostic Tests
• LAN-Alert
Platform Instrumentation Control
Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) runs on platforms whose operating systems include Microsoft
Windows 2000
† with Service Pack 2. PIC provides real-time monitoring and alerting for server hardware
sensors. PIC communicates via a LAN connection to the Platform Instrumentation (PI) on the Server using
standard DMI/RPC (non-Itanium-based servers) and CIM/DCOM protocols (Itanium-based servers).