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Tasks for HP servers................................................................................................................................. 45
HP Custom Data Manager.............................................................................................................. 46
HP Systems Insight Manager task..................................................................................................... 52
Custom HP Systems Insight Manager task ......................................................................................... 52
Remote Desktop and Computer Management tasks ............................................................................ 57
HP ProLiant Integrated Management Log task....................................................................................57
HP Integrated Lights-Out task........................................................................................................... 60
Security for HP tasks ................................................................................................................................ 73
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Event rules for HP ProLiant servers................................................................................................. 75
ProLiant base hardware events.................................................................................................................. 75
The following identifies key steps, terms and documents to consider when using the Management Packs
for the first time:
• Custom Data Manager (CDM) is a new tool included in the HP Server Management Packs. You must
install the CDM on remote consoles using the custom installation option. For more information, see
"Installation (on page 9)".
• Security settings are required to run HP Tasks properly. For more information, see "Security for HP
Tasks (on page 73)".
• New object types are defined for HP servers including Others and Log Classes. For definitions of
these objects, see "Discovering HP Servers (on page 39)".
• A new HP Server Configuration Guide for System Center Integrations is provided with the HP
Management Pack Kits. This guide details the supported versions and configurations.
• A Troubleshooting Assistant is provided within the HP Management Pack Kits to help you diagnose
and resolve issues before contacting HP.
About this guide
This guide is designed for system administrators who use the HP Server Management Packs for
Microsoft® System Center Essentials, Insight Management Agents, and other HP applications and tools to
manage the operations of HP ProLiant within a System Center Essentials environment.
You should be familiar with the configuration and operation of Microsoft® Windows®, Microsoft®
System Center Essentials, and the Insight Management Agents. 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.
HP assumes that this level of expertise is available to customers using the HP Server Management Pack for Microsoft® System Center Essentials User Guide. HP recommends reviewing your Microsoft® product
documentation for assistance in understanding this guide.
Introduction
HP delivers new management packs that complement and extend System Center Essentials, integrate alert
processing, state monitoring, and hardware resource lifecycle management for HP ProLiant servers.
Designed specifically for System Center Essentials, the HP Server Management Packs provide predefined
discoveries, views, monitors, event processing rules, and tasks. These enable administrators to proactively
streamline IT operations and ensure increased systems availability by monitoring Microsoft® Windows®
environments and HP server hardware platforms through a common System Center Essentials console.
Overview 5
The HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials discover and group HP ProLiant servers by
hardware platform type. Default discoveries and monitors highlight the state of HP hardware and
management software components and present a consolidated view of system status. Predefined event
processing rules build on the functionality of the HP Insight Management Agents to display Windows®
Event Log entries for HP server hardware as alerts in the System Center Essentials Console, including realtime and prefailure event definitions.
For advanced hardware lifecycle management and remote administration of HP ProLiant servers, the HP
Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials include tasks that launch HP Systems Insight
Manager for group systems administration, the HP System Management Homepage for single system
health and configuration monitoring, and advanced remote server administration through the HP
Integrated Lights-Out Management Processor when installed.
Features
The HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials support the following new features:
• Integration with Microsoft® System Center Essentials
• New capability for User Defined Custom Data
• New Icons for System Center Essentials Diagram View
• Streamlined procedure for HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials installation
• Improved management of events by eliminating multiple alerts in Rules
• Fully scripted installation that imports management pack data into the System Center Essentials
database automatically
• Automatic discovery and grouping of HP ProLiant servers by server family and platform type
• State monitoring for HP hardware subsystems and management software components
• Predefined rules to process and display Windows® Event Log entries for HP server hardware alerts
in the System Center Essentials Console
• Policies to present consolidated views of key HP server attributes for rapid system analysis, which
include CPU type, total memory, available hard drive storage, firmware revisions, and the version of
installed Insight Management Agents
• HP servers represented in the Diagram View
• Console Tasks to launch HP SIM, the HP System Management Homepage and HP Integrated Lights-
Out Management Processors from the System Center Essentials Console
• Access to HP BladeSystem and other HP ProLiant Essentials value-added software for hardware
performance management, vulnerability assessment, and advanced lifecycle administration of blade
servers and virtual systems through HP SIM
Benefits
The HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials provide the following benefits:
• Hardware resource management for HP ProLiant servers with augmented System Center Essentials
• Simplified and proactive monitoring of the Microsoft® Windows® and HP hardware resources using
a common System Center Essentials console
Overview 6
• Streamlined IT administration and increased systems availability
Product architecture
The HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials integration is designed to perform the
following major functions:
• Automatically identify, group, and display HP ProLiant servers within the System Center Essentials
Console
• Populate System Center Essentials with server attributes and configuration data for HP hardware and
software components
• Monitor and display the state of HP server hardware and the associated management services
• Proactively identify, translate, and display HP hardware events written to the Windows® Event Log
as System Center Essentials alerts
• Provide browser-based links to HP management tools for hardware resource management and
advanced remote administration from within System Center Essentials
All elements of the HP Server Management Packs are copied to the System Center Essentials database.
The following elements are included:
• Classes and Attributes
• Discoveries
• Monitors
• Rules
• Tasks
• Views
HP Management Packs are a set of unrelated management packs. After the installation of HP Server
Management Packs, System Center Essentials transfers the primary HP management packs to each
computer system under the System Center Essentials Agent. HP Management Packs perform an initial
discovery to verify that the system is supported by a server with the HP management software. If the
discovery succeeds, the appropriate additional management packs are transferred to the HP servers.
These management packs then run a detailed discovery process that enables state monitoring and event
processing.
After the server is properly discovered, HP server information can be seen on the System Center Essentials
console. HP server grouping is performed on the System Center Essentials Server. The discovered
inventory data and monitored state are reflected on the state and diagram views.
This process does not take place for agentless servers under System Center Essentials. Agentless servers
are monitored by a System Center Essentials Agent run on the System Center Essentials Server. This agent
performs management pack operation on the target server remotely, which causes higher network traffic
and process power consumption on the System Center Essentials Server. HP recommends keeping the
number of agentless servers in your System Center Essentials environment to a minimum.
How HP Server Management Packs operate
Some of the major elements of the HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials and the
underlying elements collect data and process hardware events and state changes. These elements include:
Overview 7
• The HP server discovery rules and scripts use Insight Management Agents, system BIOS data, and
information from WMI to identify HP ProLiant servers and collate individual system configuration
attributes.
• HP state monitoring rules use data from Insight Management Agents MIB files to monitor the
condition of HP ProLiant server hardware and to populate the State views in the System Center
Essentials Console. HP state monitoring rules also monitor the availability of key HP management
software and services such as Insight Management Agents.
• The HP event processing rules rely on Insight Management Agents and data written to the
Windows® Event Log to identify and process HP hardware events.
When an HP Insight Management Agent generates an event, a corresponding entry is written to the
Windows® Event log, which is the primary event data source used by System Center Essentials. If
the HP event in the Windows® Event Log has an associated event processing rule defined by an HP
Management Pack, a System Center Essentials alert is generated and written to the appropriate view
in the System Center Essentials Console.
HP alerts in System Center Essentials include clear event details and knowledge base data designed
to enable rapid analysis of real-time and prefailure conditions. Certain hardware events reported to
the Windows® Event Log can also generate additional events that indicate a change in hardware
state.
For information on the components provided with the HP Server Management Packs for System Center
Essentials, see "Using the software (on page 20)".
Overview 8
Installation
Installation overview
To install the HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials:
1. Download the appropriate management pack from the HP website
(http://www.hp.com/servers/integration
The following zip file is available for download:
HPProLiantMgmtPackForSCE1_0.exe
2. Select the appropriate management pack to install.
NOTE: The appropriate versions of HP Insight Management Agents are installed and running
on all managed servers. For further information, see the HP Server Management Pack Configuration Guide.
), and unzip the file.
The following table shows the kits available for selection.
Kit name File name Description
HP ProLiant Server
Management Pack 1.0 for
System Center Essentials
(x86)
HP ProLiant Server
Management Pack 1.0 for
System Center Essentials
(x64)
3. Install the HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials into the System Center
HP ProLiant Mgmt Pack for
SCE_x86.msi
HP ProLiant Mgmt Pack for
SCE_x64.msi
Used to install HP ProLiant Server management
capability where System Center Essentials is
operating in an x86 environment.
This kit supports both x86 and x64 ProLiant
Server managed nodes.
Used to install HP ProLiant Server management
capability where System Center Essentials is
operating in an x64 environment.
This kit supports both x86 and x64 ProLiant
Server managed nodes.
Essentials environment.
The kits support a custom setup option. Select any or all of the following to be installed:
o Release Notes and Documents (always installed)
o Console Task Tools
o Management Packs
The custom setup option is used to install HP console task tools to each remote System Center
Essentials Console.
NOTE: There are dependencies between management packs and console task tools, therefore
both components must be installed to ensure full functionality. The management packs must
always be installed on the System Center Essentials server. The console task tools can be
installed on the System Center Essentials server and on a remote operator console system. The
custom setup option is used to select components to install.
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4.
The installer automatically imports the management packs to the System Center Essentials.
5. Complete the post-installation procedures to discover and display HP servers in the System Center
Essentials console.
Installing the HP ProLiant Management Pack for
System Center Essentials (x86 or x64 editions)
1. Close the System Center Essentials console if it is running.
2. Install either the HP ProLiant Mgmt Pack for SCE_x86.msi file or the HP ProLiant Mgmt Pack for
SCE_x64.msi file on a system hosting the System Center Essentials Management Server or a system
running remote System Center Essentials console.
3. Execute either the HP ProLiant Mgmt Pack for SCE_x86.msi file or the HP ProLiant Mgmt Pack for
SCE_x64.msi file to begin the installation process.
4. Click Next.
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5.
Select I accept the terms in the license agreement, and click Next.
6. To change the destination folder, click Change. If no folder change is required, click Next, and go to
step 8.
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7.
Select the destination folder by using the folder navigation button to browse to the folder location or
by entering the folder name in the textbox. Click OK.
8. Select the setup type from the following options:
o Complete—Select this setup type to install all necessary features onto the System Center
Essentials environment (Continue to step 10.).
o Custom—Select this setup type to select the features to install the System Center Essentials in a
console-only environment (Remote System Center Essentials console).
The Custom Data Manager must be installed on all remote consoles.
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Click Next.
9. Select the required features to install from the menu. Click Next.
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10.
Click Install. The installation automatically imports the management packs. The installation progress
screen appears.
11. Click Finish.
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After the installation of the HP ProLiant Management
Pack for System Center Essentials
The installation updates the system with components in the following table. By default, all files are
installed in the %Program Files%\HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials directory. If
you selected a different destination folder during the installation, these files are installed in the selected
folder.
The installation results can be viewed using the Management Packs view in the System Center Essentials
console. Import logging data is also available in the ProLiantImportMPs.log file.
The ProLiant Management Pack kit imports the following three management packs into the System Center
Essentials server:
• Hewlett-Packard Servers Core Library—Defines the basic HP Server Class structure to support
ProLiant Servers Management
• Hewlett-Packard ProLiant Servers Base—Defines the HP ProLiant Server Class structure to process
primary monitoring to ProLiant Servers
• Hewlett-Packard ProLiant Servers SNMP Management Pack—Defines the HP Insight Management
Agents-based management for states and events
These management packs are deployed automatically, and you can view state and event information after
the installation.
This installation also adds entries in the programs menu on the Windows® Start menu.
Uninstalling the HP ProLiant Management Pack for
System Center Essentials
NOTE: Uninstalling the kits will not delete the imported Management Packs from the System
Center Essentials servers.
Before attempting to remove the kits from the Add/Remove Programs menu, you must manually delete all
dependent management pack data from the System Center Essentials console and the HP ProLiant
management packs.
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You can check current dependency in the Administration screen. Right-click the HP ProLiant Servers
Management Pack you want to check, and select Properties. Select the Dependencies tab. If the
Management Pack that depends on this Management Pack list does not show any dependency, then the
selected management pack can be deleted. If there are dependencies present, then you must verify that it
is appropriate to delete them.
After the HP ProLiant Management Packs are deleted from the System Center Essentials server, perform
the following procedure to uninstall all kit contents.
1. Locate the HP ProLiant Management Packs for System Center Essentials in the Windows®
Add/Remove programs menu. To begin the removal process, click Change.
2. Click Next.
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3.
Select Remove, and click Next.
4. Click Remove. The uninstallation progress screen appears.
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5.
Click Finish.
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Using the software
Using the HP Server Management Packs for System
Center Essentials
The HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials include the following major elements:
• Classes
• Views
• Discoveries
• Monitors
• Rules
• Tasks
Before using the HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials, be sure that the following
conditions exist:
• The HP Server Management Packs for System Center Essentials have been installed according to the
installation procedures ("Installation" on page 9) defined in this guide.
• SNMP services are installed, properly configured, and running on all managed servers.
NOTE: The appropriate versions of HP Insight Management Agents are installed and running
Classes
The structure of the HP Server Classes is defined to provide the following features:
• Classes to abstract HP ProLiant servers.
• Classes to abstract SNMP and future WMI based management.
• Classes organized into multiple management packs.
on all managed servers. For further information, see the HP Server Management Pack
Configuration Guide.
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The following figure illustrates the HP Logical Hardware class inheritance hierarchy for HP ProLiant SNMPbased managements.
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The following figure illustrates the HP ProLiant Group and Management Software class inheritance
hierarchy.
HP Servers Core Library classes
The Core Library defines the primary abstract classes and group classes:
• HP Logical Hardware (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPLogicalHardware)
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• HP Management Software (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPManagementSoftware)
o Version—Version information of HP management software
• HP Management Client Software (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPManagementClientSoftware)
• HP Management Server Software (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPManagementServerSoftware)
o Server Name (key)—Network name of HP server or computer
• HP Group (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPGroup)
• HP Server (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPServer)
o Network Name (key)—Network name of HP server or computer
o Manufacturer—Server manufacturer name
o Model—Model name of server
o Serial Number—Server serial number
o System Firmware—System firmware version
o System Type—Server system type
o Physical Memory (MB)—Physical memory size in megabytes
o Total Disk (GB)—Total disk size in gigabytes
o HP Management Version—HP management agents and provider versions
o Monitoring Source—Monitoring instrumentation name
o Custom Data 1—Title: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 1—Value: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 2—Title: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 2—Value: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 3—Title: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 3—Value: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 4—Title: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 4—Value: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 5—Title: User Custom Data field
o Custom Data 5—Value: User Custom Data field
• HP Servers Group (ID=HewlettPackard.ServersHPServersGroup)
• HP Health Collection (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPHealthConnection)
o Server Name—Network name of HP server or computer
• HP Computers Group (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPComputersGroup)
• HP All Instance Group (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.HPAllInstanceGroup)
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HP ProLiant Servers Base classes
The HP Servers Base implements the HP ProLiant Server Class with Model Membership Groups.
• HP ProLiant Servers Group (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantServersGroup)
• HP ProLiant ML Servers Group (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantMLServersGroup)
• HP ProLiant DL Servers Group (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantDLServersGroup)
• HP ProLiant BL Servers Group (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantBLServersGroup)
• HP ProLiant Server (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantServer)
o Integrated Lights-Out IP Address—IP Address of Integrated Lights-Out Management Processor
• HP ProLiant ML Server (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantMLServer)
• HP ProLiant DL Server (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantDLServer)
• HP ProLiant BL Server (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantBLServer)
• HP ProLiant Other Model Server (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantXXServer)
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• HP ProLiant Health Collection (ID=HewlettPackard.Servers.ProLiant.HPProLiantHealthCollection)