HK756: HP Insight Control: Management Fundamentals

$2,400.00


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Duration: 3 Days

In this course, you will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to install and configure HP Insight Control integrated management solution for physical and virtual servers. You will install and configure HP Insight Control capabilities to proactively manage system health through remote management tools. You will also cover the integration of various options within HP Systems Insight Manager: ProLiant Support Pack version control.

What You Will Learn

  • HP Insight Control architecture and agents
  • Configure HP Insight Control and monitor managed nodes
  • Set up HP Systems Insight Manager security and custom tools
  • Management of the HP Insight Control management server
  • Integration of other management applications
  • Steps to create reports
  • Conduct HP Insight Control troubleshooting
  • Configure management and monitoring capabilities for HP BladeSystem enclosures and ProLiant Support Pack version control

Audience

Administrators, engineers, and consultants who will:

  • Plan and manage the deployment of the HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Insight Control suite components
  • Monitor and manage network systems with HP Systems Insight Manager

Prerequistes

Recommended:

  • Familiarity with general networking terminology and basic network security concepts
  • HP Insight Control: Management Fundamentals
  • Essentials for HP ProLiant

An understanding of one of the following operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows 7
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux AS or RedHat Enterprise Linux ES
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server

Course Outline

1. HP Insight Control and HP Systems Insight Manager

  • New features
  • Using features to manage remote systems
  • Components and applications required to manage a system
  • Identifying availability of software
  • Identifying product resources
  • Warranty support for Windows, Linux, and HP-UX

2. Systems Management

  • Systems management essential elements
  • Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) management capabilities and related components
  • SmartStart components implemented for ProLiant management
  • Smart Update Manager functionality for firmware and driver updates
  • ProLiant Support Pack components vs. management tools
  • Insight Management agents
  • Troubleshooting agent issues
  • Operating System Management Homepage (SMH) as a server based management information aggregator
  • Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) capabilities and components
  • Role of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and interaction with WBEM
  • Version control components and capabilities
  • Operating version control agent and repository

3. Version Control and Software Deployment

  • Version control architecture
  • Requirements for installing the software repository
  • Configuring the software repository
  • Tasks used to update a managed system
  • Steps in migrating version control to the SMH

4. Typical Installation

  • Installation activities
  • Locating the steps for installing HP Insight Control on a Central Management Server (CMS)
  • Configuring the WMI mapper
  • Upgrading a previous installation of HP Systems Insight Manager
  • Removing an HP Systems Insight Manager installation

5. Setup and Configuration

  • Configuring the home page
  • Creating and assigning user rights
  • Setting up discovery
  • Navigating the system pages for managed systems
  • Customizing status polling
  • Configuring event notification

6. HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager

  • Features and benefits of HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
  • Changes and new features in HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
  • Using BladeSystem Integrated Manager

7. Using Tasks, Collections, Tools, and Events

  • Using tasks to manage a remote system
  • Using collections to filter and organize systems
  • Creating and launching tools
  • Generating and managing events

8. Reports

  • Accessing reports
  • Managing reports
  • Enhanced reporting capabilities

9. Audit Log

  • Audit logging feature
  • Accessing the audit log
  • Managing the audit log
  • Support resources

10. Using and Maintaining Storage Components

  • Storage management components of HP Systems Insight Manager
  • System Pages
  • Collections available for organizing storage
  • Reporting functionality of storage components
  • Device discovery

11. Database and Management Information Bases (MIBs)

  • HP Systems Insight Manager database management tasks
  • Capabilities of the System Type Manager
  • Components and use of the MIBs importing and compiling tools in HP Systems Insight Manager

12. HP Analysis Tools

  • Purpose of the WBEM health polling plug-in
  • Function of each of the HP analysis tools
  • Integrating HP analysis tools with HP Insight Control

13. Troubleshooting

  • Basics
  • Solutions for many common HP Systems Insight Manager problems

Appendix A: Troubleshooting (Optional)

  • Troubleshoot HP Systems Insight Manager Central Management Server (CMS), Security pop-ups, Unknown devices, and Trap reception
  • Use MX commands to troubleshoot HP Systems Insight Manager and managed systems
  • Use the verbose mode to troubleshoot secure shell (SSH) connections HP Education services are governed by the HP Education Services Terms and Conditions

Appendix B: Installing HP Insight Control (Optional)

Course Labs

Lab 1: System Management

  • Update Version Control Repository Manager (VCRM) with ProLiant Support Packs
  • Configure the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • Manage the VCRM repository

Lab 2: Configure HP Insight Control

  • Access HP Systems Insight Manager
  • Navigate the HP Systems Insight Manager homepage
  • Configure the HP Systems Insight Manager system links
  • Run the First Time Wizard
  • Create HP Systems Insight Manager users
  • Run an automatic discovery
  • Perform a manual discovery
  • Perform hardware status polling
  • View HP Systems Insight Manager events
  • Create custom toolboxes
  • Create authorizations
  • Access a Windows VCRM
  • Configure SSH on your client server
  • Modify automatic device discovery
  • Run data collection
  • View information on the device page and the System Management home page

Lab 3: Blade Integrated Manager

  • Use HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
  • Navigate the HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 logical hierarchy and use folders

Lab 4: Tasks, Collections, Tools, and Events

  • Create and run tasks
  • Create personal folders and collections
  • View events
  • Configure automatic event handling

Lab 5: Reports and Audit Logs

  • Run available reports
  • Create new reports
  • Compare the snapshots of managed systems
  • Run audit log reports
  • Create new audit log configurations
  • Identify HP Systems Insight Manager changes written to audit log

Lab 6: Database and MIB management

  • Manage system types
  • Configure HP Systems Insight Manager to identify third-party devices using the graphical user interface (GUI)
  • Upload and register a MIB using the command line interface (CLI)
  • Configure SNMP trap settings