HPE ProLiant SL270s Gen8, User Manual

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The Active Health System, in conjunction with the system monitoring provided by Agentless Management
or SNMP Pass-thru, provides continuous monitoring of hardware and configuration changes, system
status, and service alerts for various server components.
The Agentless Management Service is available in the SPP, which can be downloaded from the Hewlett
Packard Enterprise website ( http://www.hpe.com/servers/spp/download ). The Active Health System log
can be downloaded manually from iLO 4 or HPE Intelligent Provisioning and sent to Hewlett Packard
Enterprise.
For more information, see the following documents:
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iLO User Guide on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website
( http://www.hpe.com/info/enterprise/docs )
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Intelligent Provisioning User Guide on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website
( http://www.hpe.com/info/enterprise/docs )
Integrated Management Log
The IML records hundreds of events and stores them in an easy-to-view form. The IML timestamps each
event with 1-minute granularity.
You can view recorded events in the IML in several ways, including the following:
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From within HPE SIM
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From within operating system-specific IML viewers:
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For Windows: IML Viewer
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For Linux: IML Viewer Application
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From within the iLO 4 web interface
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From within Insight Diagnostics (" HPE Insight Diagnostics " on page 76 )
Intelligent Provisioning
Intelligent Provisioning is a single-server deployment tool that is embedded in ProLiant Gen8 servers. It
eliminates the need for SmartStart CDs and Smart Update Firmware DVDs. For more information about
Intelligent Provisioning, see the HPE Intelligent Provisioning User Guide in the Information Library
( http://www.hpe.com/info/intelligentprovisioning/docs ).
HPE Insight Diagnostics
The Insight Diagnostics is a proactive server management tool, available in both offline and online
versions, that provides diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities to assist IT administrators who verify
server installations, troubleshoot problems, and perform repair validation.
The Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition performs various in-depth system and component testing while the
OS is not running. To run this utility, boot the server using Intelligent Provisioning (on page 76 ).
The Insight Diagnostics Online Edition is a web-based application that captures system configuration and
other related data needed for effective server management. Available in Microsoft Windows and Linux
versions, the utility helps to ensure proper system operation.
For more information or to download the utility, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website
( http://www.hpe.com/servers/diags ).The Insight Diagnostics Online Edition is also available in the SPP
(" Service Pack for ProLiant " on page 78 ).
HPE Insight Diagnostics survey functionality
HPE Insight Diagnostics (on page 76 ) provides survey functionality that gathers critical hardware and
software information on ProLiant servers.