Management And Deployment; Systems Management And Monitoring; Power And Thermal Management With The Power Management Controller - HP ProLiant SL6000 series User Manual

In a multimode environment, it is important to ensure that planning is completed prior to selecting the
right power supply for the desired redundancy mode. Use of the HP Power Advisor is highly
recommended for identifying the optimal power supply for each SL6000 configuration. The HP Power
Advisor is available online at www.hp.com/go/hppoweradvisor.

Management and deployment

IT administrators using ProLiant SL6000 Scalable Systems will have different computing requirements.
Consequently, the way they manage, deploy, and control servers can differ. With these requirements
in mind, this section examines the following management topics:

• Systems management and monitoring

• Power and thermal management with the Power Management Controller

• Remote management and control with HP ProLiant Onboard Administrator powered by LO100i
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 and Data Center Management Interface
(DCMI) 1.0 standards
• Server deployment
Systems management and monitoring
The SL6000 Scalable System infrastructure operates through its extensive integrated management
capabilities. These capabilities are based on the Power Management Controller and ProLiant
Onboard Administrator powered by LO100i integrated on each server tray. Insight Management
Agents provide alerts that can significantly reduce unplanned downtime. The Insight Management
Agents are based on SNMP, the protocol developed to manage nodes (such as servers, workstations,
routers, switches, and hubs) on an IP network. Network management systems detect problems by
receiving traps or change notices from network devices implementing SNMP.
The ProLiant SL6000 Scalable System uses the same SNMP-based Insight Management Agents
supported by other ProLiant servers. As a result, administrators can use HP Systems Insight Manager
(SIM) 5.3 and greater to manage SL6000 servers. Administrators can also use any other
SNMP-based management tool. The agents can be downloaded from the ProLiant model-specific
"Easy Set-up" CDs or from the Internet at
SNMP agents enable the following capabilities:
• Health monitoring for drives, fans, network, power supplies, and temperature
• Alerting, including basic alert notification for Smart Array drive pre-failure only
• Performance monitoring that provides information on processor, memory, free disk space, network
utilization, and I/O
Power and thermal management with the Power Management Controller
Each 2U chassis contains an embedded microcontroller that provides advanced power metering and
capping capabilities for the entire chassis (Figure 16). The Power Management Controller manages
the power capping technology built into the chassis, making extreme density in the rack possible. The
embedded Power Management Controller monitors power consumption throughout the chassis and
throttles processor speed and memory in each node to maintain a preset power budget.
HP provides a simple command-line utility, called PPIC, for reading and configuring the power control
logic of the SL6000 Scalable System. Versions are available for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and
2008 and for the Linux operating system if the OS IPMI driver is installed. Refer to the appendix for
PPIC command line utility use.
http://www.hp.com/servers/easysetup
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