HP OneView for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Manual

HP Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Guide

Version 7.3

Abstract

This guide describes HP Insight Control tools you can use with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. This guide is intended

for use by system integrators and network administrators who are familiar with HP-branded server system products and Red

Hat Enterprise Virtualization version 3.2 or later.

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1 Overview of HP Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization..................5

HP Insight Control for RHEV GUI.................................................................................................6

The HP Insight Control for RHEV host information tabs...................................................................7

The HP Insight Control for RHEV Actions toolbar...........................................................................8

2 Installation and discovery............................................................................9

Installing and configuring HP Insight Control for RHEV...................................................................9

Discovering hosts....................................................................................................................11

3 Viewing inventory, performance, and health data for HP ProLiant host servers...13

Credentials tab.......................................................................................................................13

Communication Status tab.......................................................................................................13

Global Newsfeed tab.............................................................................................................14

Overview tab.........................................................................................................................15

Newsfeed tab........................................................................................................................16

Host tab................................................................................................................................17

Infrastructure tab.....................................................................................................................19

Networking tab......................................................................................................................21

Interpreting the networking data diagram details....................................................................22

4 Managing your HP ProLiant systems............................................................23

Monitoring system events and taking corrective action.................................................................23

Controlling devices and linking to HP management tools.............................................................23

Controlling the server power................................................................................................24

Controlling the server UID light............................................................................................24

Using the Single-Sign-On iLO Web interface.........................................................................24

Using the Single-Sign-On iLO Remote Console.......................................................................24

Using the Single-Sign-On Onboard Administrator Web interface.............................................25

Accessing the Virtual Connect login page.............................................................................25

Using Online Help..................................................................................................................25

Using the Reports icon.............................................................................................................25

Accessing HP’s Insight Control Web page.................................................................................25

5 Managing discovery credentials.................................................................26

Creating user credentials.........................................................................................................26

Updating user credentials........................................................................................................27

Deleting user credentials..........................................................................................................27

6 Viewing entity traps in RHEV-M..................................................................28

7 Generating reports...................................................................................29

Installing support for reporting..................................................................................................29

Pre-requisite RHEV-M packages............................................................................................29

Configure support for HP Insight Control for RHEV reporting....................................................29

Creating ad hoc reports..........................................................................................................29

Customizing the fields in an ad hoc report............................................................................31

Adding a title to an ad hoc report............................................................................................32

Creating and viewing the VC_Profiles report..............................................................................32

8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................34

9 Uninstalling HP Insight Control for RHEV......................................................35

Uninstalling the HP Insight Control for RHEV GUI........................................................................35

Uninstalling the HP Insight Control for RHEV database.................................................................35

Contents 3

10 Support and other resources.....................................................................36

Contacting HP........................................................................................................................36

Subscription Service...........................................................................................................36

Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................36

Customer self repair................................................................................................................37

11 Documentation feedback..........................................................................38

A Regulatory information..............................................................................39

Turkey RoHS material content declaration...................................................................................39

Ukraine RoHS material content declaration................................................................................39

Warranty information..............................................................................................................39

Glossary....................................................................................................40

4 Contents

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:

• Manage your HP ProLiant servers

• View inventory data about HP ProLiant servers, blade enclosures and Virtual Connect modules

• View performance and health data about HP ProLiant host servers, blade enclosures and

Virtual Connect modules

• Take corrective action in response to events

• Control servers using the iLO interface

• Link to the iLO, iLO Remote Console, Onboard Administrator, or Virtual Connect user interfaces

for a selected host being viewed in RHEV-M

• Log HP hardware events to RHEV-M

• Visualize networking connections from RHEV-defined networks, through physical NIC ports

and Virtual Connect, to uplinked external switches

• Generate reports of HP hardware inventory details through RHEV-M's reporting infrastructure

NOTE: HP Insight Control for RHEV supports HTML 5 browsers, including:

• Mozilla Firefox 17 and Later

• Google Chrome

• 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:

Figure 1 HP Insight Control for RHEV Quick Access tab

Table 1 HP Insight Control for RHEV Quick Access screen details

DescriptionName

Learn about how to use HP Insight Control for RHEVHP Insight Control for RHEV Welcome tab

HP Insight Control for RHEV Credentials tab

HP Insight Control for RHEV Communication Status tab

HP Insight Control for RHEV Global Newsfeed tab

HP Insight Control for RHEV GUI

Figure 2 HP Insight Control for RHEV GUI

View existing credentials. For more information, see

“Credentials tab” (page 13)

View communication status messages for all hosts. For more information, see “Communication Status tab” (page 13)

View newsfeed items for all hosts. For more information, see “Global Newsfeed tab” (page 14)

Table 2 HP Insight Control for RHEV GUI Details

NameCallout Number

6 Overview of HP Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Insight Control tab. Opens the HP Insight Control for RHEV Quick Access screen, which has the following tabs:

• Welcome

• Credentials

Table 2 HP Insight Control for RHEV GUI Details (continued)

NameCallout Number

• Communication Status

• Newsfeed

HP Insight Control for RHEV host information tabs2

HP Insight Control for RHEV Activation tab3

HP Insight Control for RHEV Actions toolbar4

The HP Insight Control for RHEV host information tabs

The host information tabs (shown in the red rectangle in the following figure), allow you to view pertinent information about your HP ProLiant servers.

Figure 3 HP Insight Control for RHEV host information tabs

The following table lists the information that is available on each tab:

Table 3 HP Insight Control for RHEV host information tab details

DescriptionTab Name

Overview

Newsfeed

Host

Infrastructure *

Networking *

The Overview tab contains a summary of inventory, performance, and health status information for the currently selected host. For a more detailed description of this data, see

“Overview tab” (page 15)

The Newsfeed tab displays events relevant to the selected host, for example: if you enter invalid credentials, a message would show up here. For a more detailed description of this data, see “Newsfeed tab” (page 16)

The Host tab displays host inventory, performance, and health status data for the selected host. For a more detailed description of this data, see “Host tab” (page 17)

The Infrastructure tab displays inventory, performance, and health status data for the blade enclosure containing the selected host. For a more detailed description of this data, see

“Infrastructure tab” (page 19)

The Networking tab draws a diagram of the Virtual Connect (VC) network topology relevant to the host. This includes logical networks, host network interfaces, VC modules and networks, and uplinked external switches. For a more detailed description of this data, see

“Networking tab” (page 21)

NOTE: * For DL servers and ML servers, Infrastructure and Networking tabs are not present in

the Host tab.

The HP Insight Control for RHEV host information tabs 7

The HP Insight Control for RHEV Actions toolbar

The Actions toolbar, displayed to the right of the HP Insight Control for RHEV host information tabs, contains icons that let you view the host’s current status, control devices, link directly to HP management tools, access online Help, access RHEV-M reports, and access a link to the HP Insight Control Support Web site.

HP Insight Control for RHEV toolbar icons

Figure 4 HP Insight Control for RHEV Actions toolbar

Table 4 HP Insight Control for RHEV Actions toolbar details

DescriptionIcon

Status icon

One of five icons is displayed to indicate overall status of all monitored subsystems for the selected host.

DescriptionStatusStatus Icon

Critical

Major

Informational

Displays the Tools menu

A failure has occurred in a subsystem that has stopped operation. For example, it may indicate that a temperature sensor detected a dangerous thermal condition.

Corrective action is necessary to prevent a critical event. For example, it may indicate that a fan has failed and there is no redundant backup.

A redundant component has failed.Minor

The subsystem is operating normally.Normal

A message that may require attention, but that has not affected the status of any subsystem. For example, it can indicate that a Drive Array was reconfigured.

Opens online Help for HP Insight Control for RHEV Help→About displays the current version of HP Insight Control for RHEV

Accesses RHEV-M ad-hoc reports

Links to the HP Support Web site

8 Overview of HP Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

2 Installation and discovery

Prerequisites for installing HP Insight Control for RHEV

The following are prerequisites for installing HP Insight Control for RHEV:

• RHEV-M must be installed and configured. Refer to Red Hat's documentation for installation

and configuration of RHEV-M.

• The RHEV-M credentials used during configuration of RHEV-M will be needed.

• The postgres password used during configuration of RHEV-M will be needed.

• The RHEV-M reports package must be installed in order for the reporting functionality in HP

Insight Control for RHEV to be installed and available.

Installing and configuring HP Insight Control for RHEV

You must ensure that HP Insight Control for RHEV is installed on the (RHEV-M) management console. To install HP Insight Control for RHEV:

1. Unpack and install the HP Insight Control for RHEV packages:

[root@rhevm ~]# tar zxf hp-icrhev-x.x.x.x.tar.gz

[root@rhevm ~]# rpm -ivh hpcs-x.x.x.x-1.x86_64.rpm hpicrhev-x.x.x.x-1.x86_64.rpm

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2. Configure HP Insight Control for RHEV by running the setup script. You will need the postgres database password and the RHEV-M credentials you entered when you ran the rhevm-setup script.

[root@rhevm ~]# /opt/hp/hpcs-x.x.x.x/hpcs_setup.py

Welcome to HP Insight Control for RHEV.....

Enter Postgres Password:

Creating database....

Enter Username with Domain name for RHEV [admin@internal]:

Password:

Configuring events....

Importing reports....

Configuring snmptrapd....

Backup copy of "snmptrapd.conf" has been renamed to

"snmptrapd-20131118_105135.conf" and placed in

"/etc/snmp/".

Starting HP Insight Control for RHEV services

NOTE: hpcs_setup.py will ensure the /opt/hp subdirectory has the appropriate

permissions (read/write/execute for owner and read/execute for group and other, i.e. rwxr-xr-x). If the subdirectory does not have the correct permissions, the setup script will ask if you want to change them:

The /opt/hp directory already exists but does not have

appropriate permissions.

HP Insight Control for RHEV requires read/write

permissions to this directory in order to function

properly.

Allow HP Insight Control for RHEV to change permissions

of this directory? [yes/no]:

Answering yes will continue the setup procedure. Answering no will abort the setup.

NOTE: Entering an incorrect Postgres password will result in the following error message:

Please confirm your database password and ensure that

"md5" authentication method is selected.

If Postgres has been configured with the ident authentication method, you must change the authentication method to md5 or trust.

NOTE: If you do not have the RHEV Reports package installed, the Importing reports step

will fail. This is a non-fatal error.

NOTE: If you do not have the net-snmp package installed, the Configuring snmptrapd

step will fail. This is a non-fatal error.

Before HP Insight Control for RHEV can display information about hosts (iLOs/servers, blade enclosures and Virtual Connect) in your environment, they must first be discovered.

NOTE: Host credentials are required in order for discovery to succeed.

10 Installation and discovery

Discovering hosts

1. Log in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) with a valid username and password.

2. In the RHEV-M window, select the Hosts tab.

3. In the Hosts tab, from the list of available hosts, click to select the host whose information you want to discover.

4. Click the HP Insight Control tab.

5. In the HP Insight Control for RHEV Actions toolbar, click . The Tools menu is displayed.

6. Select Discovery. The Discovery Wizard dialog box is displayed:

NOTE: Installing Single Sign-On certificates requires Administrator access to the target

devices. If you do not want to use Administrator-level access or if the target device has no free Single Sign-On slots, clear this checkbox.

Discovering hosts 11

7. Enter the hostname or IP address and your credentials for the iLO you want to discover. Click

OK.

NOTE: To discover entities, entities should have at least the following minimum versions:

• iLO

Minimum version for iLO 3 is1.50 Minimum version for iLO 4 is1.20

• OA

Minimum version for OA is 3.32

• VC

Minimum version for VC is 3.00

NOTE: If the server is a blade server, you can enter OA and VC credentials. OA and VC

inputs are hidden for non-blade servers. If the OA or VC is already discovered, the OA or VC fields are disabled.

NOTE: If an authentication failure occurs, an error message is added to the host’s newsfeed

and global newsfeed.

NOTE: If the host's Power Management iLO data has been entered in RHEV-M, this data

(with the exception of password) will be pre-populated in the Discovery wizard.

NOTE: When discovering blade servers using the Discovery Wizard (Hosts→HP Insight

Control→Tools Menu→Discovery), if the OA and VC credential fields are blank, the Discovery

Wizard will attempt to discover the OA and VC using the credentials entered for iLO.

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