Snmp Alerts From Integrated Administrator To A Management Console; E-Mail Alerts From Integrated Administrator To An E-Mail Account (Alertmail); Remote Access And Control; User Administration And Security - HP Bc1500 - BladeSystem - Blade PC User Manual

HP PC Blade Enclosure System Software Features
SNMP alerts from Integrated Administrator to a management
console
The Integrated Administrator provides notification of enclosure problems. Using a management
console, you can access various alerts, such as unauthorized access attempts and network
connection failures using SNMP traps.
E-mail alerts from Integrated Administrator to an e-mail
account (AlertMail)
AlertMail enables the Integrated Administrator to send system events by email instead of using
SNMP traps. AlertMail is completely independent of SNMP, and both can be enabled at the
same time. AlertMail uses standard SMTP commands to communicate with any SMTP capable
mail server or SMTP relay agent.

Remote access and control

The Integrated Administrator provides remote functionality to access a limited text-only console
of the host blade PC, change the state of the Unit Identification LED on an enclosure or any of its
blade PCs, and power up, power down, or reboot a blade PC or groups of blade PCs.
The Integrated Administrator displays alerts regardless of the state of the user's host blade PC
and integrates with the HP Systems Insight Manager utility using SNMP to provide alerts and
diagnostics of the system.
If a blade PC does not respond, this feature enables an administrator to initiate a cold reboot to
bring the blade PC back online. The Integrated Administrator can be used to remotely operate a
power button of any blade PC within the enclosure.
Integrated Administrator is fully accessible by common Web browsers. The Integrated
Administrator also has a command line interface (CLI) accessible using Secure Shell (encrypted)
or Telnet (unencrypted) protocols, providing extensive management capability to remote network
users. Local users can access the CLI by attaching a client computer (using a terminal emulator)
or terminal to the Integrated Administrator's console (RS-232 serial) port.
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With a Telnet session, all data - including passwords - are passed as clear text.

User administration and security

The Integrated Administrator supports up to 25 users with customizable access rights and login
names. Groups are first assigned bays, and then users are given membership to those groups.
This group-centered methodology is designed to facilitate user management across blade PCs.
Integrated Administrator provides strong security for remote management in distributed IT
environments by using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption of HTTP data
transmitted across the network. SSL encryption (up to 128-bit) ensures that the HTTP
information is secure as it travels across the network. You can encrypt all remote console data as
well.
Integrated Administrator provides secure password encryption, tracking all login attempts and
maintaining a record of all login failures. Integrated Administrator also provides the following
additional security features:
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