Management of consolidated server hardware for the DESY windows environment

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Management of consolidated server hardware for
the DESY windows environment

• Ralph Heintz,
• Reinhard Baltrusch
• DESY IT

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Situation

• Building a new Windows domain for DESY with new
  servers brings also the chance to consolidate the
  hardware and look for good management options
• 2002/2003 investments in HP ProLiant server- and
  storage hardware (both sites)
• 3 ProLiant DL380G3 - domain controller
• 4 ProLiant DL360G2 - application server
• 2 ProLiant DL380 packaged cluster with storage
• 4 ProLiant BL20pG2 - file server cluster (
  dual XEON CPU blade server )
• 2 MSA1000 storage systems with FC SAN
  connectivity
• (together 7 TB file store)
• 3 ProLiant DL380G2 - mailsweeper
• 5 ProLiant DL360G2 - SAP server
• 2 ProLiant ML370 mail cluster with storage

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Centralized server hardware management

• Installation of HP management agents on all
  suitable server systems
• Installation of Insight Manager 7 SP2 on a
  server as central console with integration of
• System Management Homepage
• Array Configuration Utility - ACU
• remote management with Remote Insight
  Lights-Out or Integrated Lights-Out hardware
• system software and firmware upgrades with
  Version Control Repository Manager

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Insight Manager 7 SP2

• Automatically discovers, identifies and manages
  ProLiant servers and act as the central launching
  point for other management software products
• Centralized view of potential and actual problems
  before they result in unplanned server downtime
• Isolate and rapidly recover from faults using
  management agents and Insight Lights-Out
  technology
• Hierarchical views to track systems at group level

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Insight Manager 7 SP2 (II)

• Helpful tool for server asset management
• inventory reports helps if there any memory,
  processor and disk upgrades or other hardware
  changes
• export reports in CSV format for easy import in
  central reporting tools
• Reduction in time consuming
• diagnose server faults from remote locations
  through a web browser
• isolate servers running out-of-date BIOS, driver
  and agents and update them from central desk

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Insight Manager 7 SP2 (III)

• Quickly setup and ease of use
• integrated MSDE installation or SQL-server based
  repository
• setup of the management server in less then an
  hour
• delete events in database directly from an
  actions menue in IM 7 SP2
• control of database size

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Insight Manager - Discovery
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Insight Manager - Devices
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Insight Manager - Accounts
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Insight Manager - Security
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Insight Manager - Queries
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Insight Manager - Reports
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Insight Manager - Inventory
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Insight Manager Cluster Monitor
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Insight Manager Event Queries
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Insight Manager - Tasks
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Insight Manager Tasks (II)
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Insight Manager Tasks (III)
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System Management Homepage

• Browser-based, remote management with consistent
  user interface
• view server and state information
• update system software and firmware (Version
  Control Agent)
• configuring storage arrays (ACU)
• remote power on servers (ILO)
• all functions over a secure connection (40 or 128
  bit SSL)
• Monitoring and reporting of server performance
• real-time diagnostic and quick respond to server
  fault conditions
• pre failure alerting
• in conjunction with IM 7SP2 alerts maybe
  transmitted to the central monitoring system
  (Nagios)

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System Management Homepage (II)

• Easy setup
• central and remote deployment of agents to
  allmanageable servers or manual
  installationfrom CD or network share
• Integration with Insight Manager 7 SP2
• automatic submission of relevant serverdata (
  health and performance ) to IM 7 SP2
• Secure communication with IM7 SP2 server
• filtering IP addresses or names
• certificate based communication

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Insight Manager System Homepage
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Array Configuration Utility

• Configure and expand disk drive arrays
• Web-based disk management
• Wizard-based configuration
• Add additional disk drives to an existing
  configuration (while server is online)
• Online capacity expansion of arrays and logical
  drives
• RAID Level migration
• Hot spare disk management
• Fine tune controller performance
• read/write cache ratio
• stripe size
• priority levels for expansion and rebuild of
  drives

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Insight Manager Home Device
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Array Configuration Utility (II)
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Insight Management Agents

• Pre failure observation
• Over 1000 parameters monitored
• SNMP and HTTP communication
• Sub-system status display (NIC, controller,
  drives, power supply etc.)
• Operating system monitoring (event log forwarding
  of Windows and NetWare)
• Heterogenous OS on managed Servers
  possible(Windows, LINUX, NetWare, SCO, True64
  Unix, OpenVMS and IBM OS)

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Insight Management Agents (II)
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Insight Management Agents (III)
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Software Version Control Agent

• View the software installed on selected HP
  equipment
• View the available updates
• Is the installed software compliant with the
  latest update(s) ?
• Add or update the HP software on the devices
  remotely
• Central repository on a central server may be
  automatically updated by HP website (ActiveUpdate)

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Software Version Control Agent (II)
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Integrated Lights-Out

• Integrated Chip on mainboard or expansion board
  in server
• System status, diagnostics and logs
• Remote console
• Virtual devices (power button, media drives and
  indicators)
• User, network and security configuration

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Integrated Lights-Out (II)
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Integrated Lights-Out (III)
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References

• http//h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/managem
  ent/
• cim7-description.html