Module 1: Tour the Product
- Describe HP Insight Control and HP Systems Insight Manager
- Identify how to find the new features included with HP Insight Control and HP Systems Insight Manager
- Describe the features of the products and how each feature can be used to manage remote systems
- List the components and applications that are required to manage a system
- Identify availability of software
- Identify product resources
- Describe warranty support for Windows, Linux and HP-UX
Module 2: Systems Management Overview
- Define system management
- Identify key systems management essential elements
- List Integrated Lights-Out management capabilities and related components
- State SmartStart components implemented for ProLiant management
- Describe Smart Update Manager functionality for firmware and driver updates
- Compare and contrast ProLiant Support Pack components and management tools
- List Insight Management Agents
- Troubleshoot agent issues
- Operate System Management Homepage as a server based management information aggregator
- Identify WBEM capabilities and components
- Describe role of WMI and interaction with WBEM
- Define Version Control components and capabilities
- Operate Version Control Agent and Repository
Module 3: Version Control and Software Deployment
- Describe the version control architecture
- List the requirements for installing the software repository
- Configure the software repository
- Describe the tasks used to update a managed system
- List the steps in migrating version control to the System Management Homepage (SMH)
Lab: System Management
Much of the Insight Control, Foundations of Management and Monitoring with Systems Insight Manager v7.0 course centers around the concepts of simplifying systems management. This lab is intended to introduce you to the idea of system management from a single-system perspective and to show what would be required to manually perform system management tasks without HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and Insight Software.
After completing this lab, you will be able to:
- Update Version Control Repository Manager (VCRM) with ProLiant Support Packs
- Configure the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Manage the VCRM repository
Module 4: Typical Installation
- List the installation activities
- Locate the steps for installing HP Insight Control on a Central Management Server (CMS)
- Describe when the WMI mapper is needed and how to configure it
- Describe how to upgrade a previous installation of HP Systems Insight Manager
- List the steps to remove an HP Systems Insight Manager installation
Module 5: Setup and Configuration
- Describe and configure the home page
- Describe how to create and assign user rights
- Describe how to setup up discovery
- Navigate the system pages for managed systems
- Describe how to customize status polling
- Describe how to configure event notification
Lab: Configuring HP Insight Control
In this lab, you will perform the basic HP Insight Control configuration required after installation. Within the HP Virtual Lab environment, HP Insight Control is preinstalled in the interest of time.
After completing this lab, you should be able to:
- Access HP Systems Insight Manager
- Navigate the HP Systems Insight Manager homepage
- Configure the HP Systems Insight Manager system links
- Run the First Time Wizard
- Create HP Systems Insight Manager users
- Run an automatic discovery
- Perform a manual discovery
- Perform hardware status polling
- View HP Systems Insight Manager events
- Create custom toolboxes
- Create authorizations
- Access a Windows VCRM
- Configure SSH on your client server
- Modify automatic device discovery
- Run data collection
- View information on the device page and the System Management home page
Module 6: HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
- Describe the features and benefits of HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
- Describe changes and what is new in HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
- Explain how to use BladeSystem Integrated Manager
Lab: Blade Integrated Manager
- Use HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
- Navigate the HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 logical hierarchy and use folders
Module 7: Using Tasks, Collections, Tools and Events
- Explain how tasks can be used to manage a remote system
- Understand how collections can be used to filter and organize systems
- Describe how tools are created and launched
- Identify how events are generated and managed
Lab: Tasks, Collections, Tools and Events
- Create and run tasks
- Create personal folders and collections
- View events
- Configure automatic event handling
Module 8: Reports
- Describe the process for accessing reports
- Describe processes for managing reports
- Identify Enhanced reporting capabilities
Module 9: Audit Log
- Describe the audit logging feature
- Access the audit log
- Manage the audit log
- List support resources
Lab: Reports and Audit Logs
- Run available reports
- Create new reports
- Compare the snapshots of managed systems
- Run Audit Log reports
- Create new Audit Log configurations
- Identify HP Systems Insight Manager changes written to Audit Log
Module 10: Use and Maintain Storage Components
- Identify the storage management components of HP Systems Insight Manager
- Describe the information that is available using System Pages
- Identify the collections that are available for organizing storage
- Understand the reporting functionality of storage components
- Identify the steps necessary for device discovery
Module 11: Database and MIBs
- List the HP Systems Insight Manager database management tasks
- Define the capabilities of the System Type Manager
- Describe the components and of use the Management Information Bases (MIB) importing and compiling tools in HP Systems Insight Manager
Lab: Database and MIB management
- Manage system types
- Configure HP Systems Insight Manager to identify third-party devices using the graphical user interface (GUI)
- Upload and register a Management Information Base (MIB) using the command line interface (CLI)
- Configure Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap settings
Module 12: HP Analysis Tools
- Describe the purpose of the WBEM health polling plug-in
- Describe the function of each of the HP analysis tools
- Describe the integration of the HP analysis tools with HP Insight Control
Module 13: Troubleshooting
- Describe the basics of troubleshooting
- Identify solutions for many common HP Systems Insight Manager problems
Lab - Appendix A - Lab: Troubleshooting (if time permits)
- Troubleshoot:The HP Systems Insight Manager Central Management Server (CMS), Security pop-ups, Unknown devices, Trap reception
- Use MX commands to troubleshoot HP Systems Insight Manager and managed systems
- Using the verbose mode to troubleshoot SSH connections
Lab - Appendix B Lab: Installing HP Insight Control (if time permits)
Proper installation of HP Insight Control installation is a critical step towards the successful use of HP Insight Control. After completing this lab you will be able to successfully verify the installation requirements and perform a basic installation of HP Insight Control.
After completing this lab you should be able to:
- Verify that the system configuration of the host that will become the Central Management Server meets the system requirements for installing HP Insight Control
- Remediate any software or configuration issues that will negatively impact the installation
- Install HP Insight Control using the default database
Appendix A (Lecture): Introducing ProLiant Generation 8
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