Managing With Insight Control And Server Automation: Examples - HP BL685c - ProLiant - 4 GB RAM Introduction Manual

Table 1: Key features of Insight Control and Server Automation
Feature
Deploy
Monitor
Control
Protect
Optimize
Integrate
Visibility
Managing with Insight Control and Server Automation:
Examples
The following examples illustrate how Insight Control and HP Server Automation work together to
simplify the management of extensive BladeSystem installations. The examples are not intended to be
comprehensive, just illustrative. The first of three examples shows how Insight Control and Server
Automation are used together to identify and solve a CPU performance problem. The second example
illustrates how features specific to server blades make it easy for you to respond to a cooling issue. In
the third example, a company has decided to reduce IT expenses by consolidating its existing server
infrastructure onto new BladeSystem servers. Insight Control for BladeSystem and Server Automation
save time and effort by simplifying many repetitive actions necessary in such a move.
6 If you use Server Automation with HP Network Automation and Storage Automation, then you can configure and manage network and storage
connections.
Rapid Deployment Pack is pre-enabled out of the box with ProLiant and Integrity hardware setup capabilities and licensed for use only with HP
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servers. With customized scripting, you can use Server Automation for operating system deployment on heterogeneous servers.
HP SIM provides more extensive hardware inventory, such as DIMM serial numbers and information on fans and power supplies. Server
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Automation provides extensive software inventory information, including file system hierarchy.
For comprehensive patch management, Server Automation is the preferred solution because it covers both operating systems and applications.
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Network and storage connection configuration
Operating system deployment
System configuration
Application deployment
Enclosure visualization
Fault management
Performance / resource utilization
Power utilization
System Inventory 8
Contract and warranty data
Remote control (without operating system)
Remote console (using operating system)
Migrate virtual connect server profiles
Auditing and compliance
Operating system security patching
Policy-based operating system and application patching
Virtualization
Power management
Enterprise management integration solutions
Application to server to network to storage connections
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Insight Server
Control Automation
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