Core Infrastructure
Management
HP Systems Insight
Manager
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) provides a unified, secure and
extensible standards-based environment to centrally manage servers,
storage and other infrastructure devices, (both HP and non-HP) across
multiple operating system platforms.
Insight Management
Agents
HP Insight Management Agents and Insight Management Providers are
available for HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) Integration.
The following capabilities are enabled on the 100-series G6 servers by the
SNMP agents:
Health monitoring capabilities, including monitoring for drives, fans,
network, power supplies, and temperature
Alerting capabilities, including basic alert notification for Smart Array
drive pre-failure only
Performance monitoring capabilities providing information on
processor, memory, disk free space, network utilization
For additional information, please see:
http://www.hp.com/go/insight
Easy Set-up
Easy Set-up is available for this platform as an ISO image web download. HP
ProLiant Easy Set-up provides easy, step-by-step, single and multi-server
server utilities to streamline server setup. The user experience is consistent
with SmartStart and offers the following capabilities:
Boot environment and GUI
Assisted Installation: Windows 2008 Server drivers
Manual installation:, Windows 2008 Server, and Linux drivers (specific
OS support varies by server. Refer to each server's QuickSpecs for
supported versions)
HP Insight Diagnostics
AutoRun
HP Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) offers configuration of array
controllers and storage devices and testing of array controller
hardware
SmartStart Scripting Toolkit (SSSTK) and Smart Components for
software and drivers
NOTE:
OS and SW available for Manual Installation are listed on each servers'
QuickSpecs.
SmartStart Scripting
Toolkit (SSSTK)
The SmartStart Scripting Toolkit is a server deployment product that delivers
an unattended automated installation for high-volume server deployments.
The SmartStart Scripting Toolkit includes a set of utilities for configuring and
deploying servers in a customized, predictable, and unattended manner.
These utilities enable you to duplicate the configuration of a source server on
target servers with minimum user interaction.
The Toolkit is designed for IT experts with experience in scripting operating
system installations and configuring ProLiant server hardware.
For additional information, please see:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/toolkit/
QuickSpecs
HP SL2500 Scalable System
Optional Features
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