HP PC Blade Enclosure Integrated Administrator
The HP PC Blade Enclosure Integrated Administrator is a centralized management and monitoring
system for the HP PC Blade Enclosure and blade PCs. The Integrated Administrator acts as a
combination terminal server and remote power controller, enabling out-of-band, secure, serial console
connections to all blade PCs in the enclosure, and offers all of the following:
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Full Command Line Interface (CLI) and Web interface
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Blade PC privileges can be set on a user basis
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Virtual power button to power blade PC on or off
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More than 100 scriptable commands to enable automated deployment and management
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Remote administration
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Enables access to blade PC’s serial console
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Enables full control over blade PC’s Power-On Self Test (POST) and boot process, including
the Computer Setup (F10) Utility
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Hardware health monitoring
The Integrated Administrator monitors and controls the enclosure fans, temperature sensors,
power supplies, and blade PC status.
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Offline console buffering (when not connected) and event logging
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Operating system console logging
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Blade PC and enclosure hardware events
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Security features
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Secure Shell access
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User administration for up to 25 users
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Event generation for invalid login attempts
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Logging of user actions in event log
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Selective enabling of all protocols, such as Telnet
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Out-of-band management using Integrated Administrator's RS-232 console
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (Web interface)
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Customer installable SSL certificates
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