Using The Virtual Devices Tab; Monitoring Pmp Parameters; Default Pmp Settings; Sample Rate - HP Xw460c - ProLiant - Blade Workstation User Manual

Optimizing mouse performance for Remote Console or Integrated Remote Console—Enables you to set
the mouse acceleration, which must be set correctly for the remote console to behave properly in certain
Windows configurations.
High-performance mouse settings—Enables the High Performance Mouse feature when using the Remote
Console. This feature improves pointer performance and accuracy on Windows Server 2003 and
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later.

Using the Virtual Devices tab

The Virtual Devices tab provides the following options:
Virtual power button—Enables control of the power state of the remote server and simulates physically
pressing the power button on the server. If the remote host server is not responding, this feature enables
an administrator to initiate a cold or warm reboot to bring the server back online.
Power Regulator for ProLiant—Enables you to view and modify power regulation settings and view
processor states and power meter readings.
Virtual media—Enabled by licensing the optional iLO 2. If the iLO 2 is not licensed, the following
message appears: iLO 2 feature not licensed.
Virtual indicators—The Unit ID LED is the blue LED on the HP server that is used for identifying systems
in a rack of servers. iLO 2 enables you to view the status of the Unit ID LED and change the status using
iLO 2 Web pages.

Monitoring PMP parameters

Servers are monitored based on monitoring parameters. The monitoring status and the number of samples
must be configured in PMP for servers to be monitored.

Default PMP settings

The following are default monitoring settings:
1. Monitor and Alert selected
2. Number of samples to determine status - 5
The default monitoring settings can be changed on the Monitoring Administration page.

Sample rate

NOTE: Sample rate is populated automatically.
PMP does not control the amount of time between samples. Instead, the sample rate (data collection interval)
is set from within the HP Management Agents.
After you start monitoring a server, the sample rate that appears on the Monitoring Administration page is
synchronized to equal the sample rate of the agents for the monitored server.
The servers connected to an enclosure determine the sample rate for a network storage enclosure. The sample
rate for the storage enclosure is the highest sample rate of the connected servers.

Number of samples

PMP enables you to specify the number of samples from which the monitoring service calculates a running
average of gathered entries to determine system performance status.

Using the PMP interface

This section provides an overview of PMP functionality. A usage scenario demonstrates setup, administration,
and server monitoring.
46 Monitoring and controlling servers