HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Overview................................................................................................................................7
Structure..................................................................................................................................8
Protocol settings.......................................................................................................................8
Features..................................................................................................................................8
2 Licensing.................................................................................................10
Overview..............................................................................................................................10
Supported licenses..................................................................................................................10
Licensing preparation..............................................................................................................10
Licensing servers.....................................................................................................................10
Licensing Insight Control performance management using HP SIM license manager.........................11
Adding licenses to the Performance Management database....................................................11
Applying licenses to a server...............................................................................................11
Licensing Insight Control performance management using the Managed System Setup wizard..........11
Applying licenses to a server...............................................................................................12
Licensing virtual machine hosts.................................................................................................12
3 Monitoring the server performance.............................................................13
Overview..............................................................................................................................13
Using the Performance Management interface............................................................................13
Opening the HP Insight Control console................................................................................13
Monitoring Administration page...............................................................................................14
Default Performance Management monitoring settings............................................................14
Setting Performance Management monitoring parameters.......................................................14
Number of samples............................................................................................................15
Sample rate......................................................................................................................15
Set Performance Threshold..................................................................................................15
Setting the log days...........................................................................................................15
Control the display of the number of managed nodes.............................................................15
Manual Log Purge page..........................................................................................................16
Enabling virtual machine host and virtual machine guests logging.................................................16
4 Analyzing the server performance..............................................................18
Overview..............................................................................................................................18
Online Analysis......................................................................................................................18
Performing Online Analysis.................................................................................................18
Offline Analysis......................................................................................................................19
Performing Offline Analysis.................................................................................................20
Reading the analysis information..............................................................................................20
System Details pane...........................................................................................................20
Server Configuration pane..................................................................................................21
Results pane......................................................................................................................21
Graphical display...................................................................................................................21
Expanding the local storage................................................................................................21
Displaying the controller.....................................................................................................22
Displaying the port.............................................................................................................22
Displaying the drive...........................................................................................................23
Displaying the inventory......................................................................................................23
5 Reports...................................................................................................25
Overview..............................................................................................................................25
Static Analysis report...............................................................................................................25
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