Insight control environment foundation

Course overview

This 2-day course provides an introduction to HP Insight Control Environment. Students will be presented with an overview of the installation process for Insight Control Data Center Edition, then will work with labs for HP Systems Insight Manager and ProLiant Essentials software. The labs will ensure time is spent performing activities around hardware resource deployment, health monitoring, performance monitoring, virtual machine management, server vulnerability scanning and patch management.

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of Windows Operating System

Audience

• Anyone with a need to understand HP Insight Control Environment

Ways to save

Course objectives

• Understand Insight Control Environment
• Describe and use the features of Integrated Lights Out
• Install Insight Control Data Centre Edition and supporting components
• Learn how to use and maintain the fundamental features in Insight Control Data Center Edition

Next steps

• Managing and monitoring the Insight Control Environment: SIM (HE644S)
• Deploying and updating Insight Control Environment: RDP (HE645S)
• HP BladeSystem administration: c-Class (HE646S)

Benefits to you

• Describe the Integrated Lights Out (ILO) and Integrated Lights Out 2 (ILO2) device and the features of these products
• Describe the contents of the new product, HP BladeSystem Essentials Insight Control Data Center Edition and the products that are included in this bundle
• Install and configure the HP BladeSystem Essentials Insight Control Data Center Edition (ICDCE)
• Use and maintain the new features in HP BladeSystem Essentials Insight Control Data Center Edition (ICDCE)

Course outline

• IT Infrastructure Management
• Challenges in IT Infrastructure Management
• Rising cost of IT operations
• Time is a finite resource
• HP’s Unified Infrastructure Management Portfolio
• Insight Control Management

HP Lights-Out Management

• Introducing New Licensing for iLO 2 Based ProLiant BL servers
• iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition
• ProLiant Essentials in Action New Flexible iLO 2 Packaging For ProLiant ML/DL
• ProLiant Essentials in Action New Flexible iLO 2 Packaging For ProLiant BL Servers
• iLO 2 Positioning
• New Feature Support – iLO 2 vs iLO For ProLiant BL Servers
• Integrated Lights-Out Management
• HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)
• iLO supported operating systems and browsers
• iLO web interface blade server tab
• Using iLO firmware 1.82
• Using HP iLO Advanced features

Touring the Product

• Product Overview
• Insight Control Data Center Edition v1.1
• What’s New in ICDCE
• HP Service Essentials Remote Support Pack
• Rapidly Deploy c-Class Enclosure and HP Infrastructure Management Software
• Installing in an existing environment
• Insight Control Data Center Edition v1.1
• Insight Control Data Center Edition
• Insight Control Data Center Edition Licensing
• Insight Control Data Center Edition Licensing – RDP Upgrade
• Insight Control Data Center Edition
• Comparison

Install and Configure

• Insight Control Data Center Edition v1.1
• ICDCE installation requirements
• Performing an ICDCE installation
• Selecting components for installation
• Database Configuration
• Rapid Deployment Configuration
• Systems Insight Manager Discovery Configuration
• Installation Complete
• Post Configuration
• Checking for software updates
• Setting up discovery
• Adding users to the Central Management Server

Use and Maintain

• Using ICDCE
• Deployment
• RDP Jobs and tasks
• Jobs and tasks working together
• Scheduling jobs
• Rapid Deployment Pack job structure
• Job categories
• Server Deployment Toolbox
• Server Replication
• Hardware configuration file
• Array configuration file
• Array and disk defaults
• Scripted deployment
• Configuration flow for scripting
• Default scripting process for server deployment jobs
• Unattend text file
• ProLiant Support Packs
• REM statements
• Deploying a Scripted Windows 2003 Installation to a PXE-Enabled Server
• Imaging
• Configuration flow for imaging
• Comparing imaging and scripting
• Scripting and imaging working together
• Using RDP and Sysprep for Windows Server 2003 Optional Lab
• Systems Insight Manager
• Objectives
• HP SIM home page
• Customizing the HP SIM home page
• HP SIM configuration
• User configuration
• Setting up the next discovery
• Global protocol settings
• Browsing discovered systems
• Navigating the System Page — System
• Navigating the System Page — Tools & Links
• Navigating the System Page — Events
• Manual discovery
• Setting up and customizing status polling
• Managing numerous systems
• Handling numerous events
• System and Events
• Displaying a collection
• Configuration of SIM
• Using BladeSystem Integrated Manager 2.0
• Table, icons and tree views
• Using the physical hierarchy
• System Page
• Identity tab
• Identity tab for a storage host
• Tools and links tab
• Events tab
• Performance tab
• VM Performance tab
• Rack and enclosure views
• Power and thermal information