HP Insight Manager Simon Boardman

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HP Insight ManagerSimon Boardman
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Topics Covered

• HP Hardware Firmware
• BIOS Features
• iLO/RiLO
• Platform Support Pack
• Drivers
• Extended Feature Supplement
• Insight Management Agents
• SNMP Software Station

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HP Infrastructre

• Remind me, why am I doing this?
• ProLiant Servers are equipped with hardware and
  firmware to monitor certain abnormal conditions
  such as abnormal temperature readings, fan
  failures, ECC memory errors, etc and the above
  will monitor these conditions and report it to
  the administrator by printing a message on the
  console, and also logging the condition into the
  Pro- Liant Integrated Management Log (IML). The
  Insight Manager agents can also be used to notify
  the administrator of abnormal conditions.

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http//www.hp.com/support - Firmware!
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HP BIOS Features Automatic Server Recovery

• ASR-2 is a feature that causes the system to
  restart when a catastrophic operating system
  error occurs, such as a blue screen, ABEND
  (abnormal end), or panic. A system fail-safe
  timer, the ASR-2 timer, starts when the System
  Management driver, also known as the Health
  Driver, is loaded. When the operating system is
  functioning properly, the system periodically
  resets the timer. However, when the operating
  system fails, the timer expires and restarts the
  server.
• ASR-2 increases server availability by restarting
  the server within a specified time after a system
  hang or shutdown. At the same time, the Insight
  Manager 7 console notifies you by sending a
  message to a designated pager number that ASR-2
  has restarted the system. You can disable ASR-2
  from the Insight Manager 7 console or through
  RBSU.

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HP BIOS Features

• Taken from an HP Manual on a DL380 G3 Proliant
  Server
• ASR Status enables or disables ASR. By default,
  this setting is Enabled
• ASR Timeout sets a timeout limit for resetting a
  server that is not responding. The default
  timeout limit is 10 minutes.
• Thermal Shutdown determines when the server
  automatically powers down due to dangerous
  temperatures. When the setting is enabled, the
  Health Driver initiates a shutdown of the system
  when the server temperature is within 5 degrees
  of critical level. When the setting is disabled,
  the Health Driver shuts down the system at
  critical level. By default, this setting is
  Enabled.

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Thermal Shutdown

• With the Health Driver loaded and Thermal
  Shutdown enabled in RBSU, the Health Driver
  performs an orderly shutdown if it detects a
  cautionary temperature level. If the server
  detects a critical temperature level before the
  orderly shutdown occurs, the server performs an
  immediate shutdown. Additionally, the Health
  Driver performs an orderly shutdown if the
  following minimum requirements are not met one
  working fan in the I/O zone, five working fans in
  the processor zone, and one working fan in the
  power supply zone.
• With the Health Driver loaded and Thermal
  Shutdown disabled in RBSU, the server performs an
  immediate shutdown if it detects a critical
  temperature level.
• Without Health Driver loaded, the server performs
  an immediate shutdown if it detects a critical
  temperature level.
• IMPORTANT An immediate shutdown is a
  hardware-controlled function and it overrides any
  firmware or software actions.

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Integrated Lights Out iLO/RiLOs
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Platform Support Pack PSP
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Platform Support Pack

• Where is it?
• http//h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/S
  oftwareDescription.jsp?langenccUSswItemMTX-4a
  d9ca2477f04f7ba60317dcb1
• Contains the Extended Feature Supplement
• Drivers - such as ida ciss and hpsas
• These come as a separate floppy disk image
• Utilities such as /usr/bin/compaq/diags/ciss/cis
  s_menu
• Change to directory containing EFS execute
  "pkgadd -d pwd/cpqefs.pkg" and follow menu
  based screens to complete EFS installation

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Installing the EFS

• Only pick the appropriate drivers so as not to
  install and run drivers and daemons which are
  unnecessary in production. Installing
  inappropriate utilities can cause performance
  problems as these daemons will be probing for
  hardware you may not have.
• You will need to install the "ASM" (casm), Health
  Event Logging (cpqw) and Remote Insight Board
  (crid) drivers if you wish to use the Compaq
  Insight Management tools. The "crid" would be
  optional depending on where you were using or had
  installed a RiLO or ILO Integrated Lights Out
  Board.
• NB. The hpASM XL is for G5 servers and above and
  it will not be necessary to select the Health
  Event Logging daemon as it will fail when
  "hpasmxl" is selected.

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The Insight Management Agents

• HP Insight Management Agents Installation
• Login as super user to SCO Unix System.
• Change to directory containing MgmtAgents
  execute "./install.sh" and follow the prompts to
  complete installation of Foundation, Server,
  Storage and NIC Insight Management Agents
• Point a web browser at the system and key in
  http//IP_ADDRESS2301 or http//machine_name
  2301. This will bring up the device home page
  for the server if it is running web-enabled
  management software, and display a list of the
  components.
• administrator and administrator

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2301 Web Browsing
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2301 Web Browsing
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Compaq Insight Management SNMP Software

• To receive SNMP Traps to a PC which is running
  the Insight Management Software then install
  either the last 32Bit GUI version of the
  software, v5.50, available from HP which runs on
  NT4, Windows 2000, XP etc
• Or install the latest Version which will require
  a version of MSDE to be installed and will need a
  minimum of 512MB of RAM to run and in both cases
  you MUST install and run this as the
  Administrator to receive SNMP Traps and add new
  servers.

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Insight Management Station
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Insight Management Agents
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Insight Management Agents
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Not taking Notes No problem

• Is all this documented somewhere to make it easy?
• http//www.sco.com/ta/116163
• http//www.sco.com/ta/111742
• http//h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/managem
  ent/cim49-description.html

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Questionnaire

• Where is the Automatic Server Recovery and
  Thermal Shutdown enabled/disabled?
• Can you tell me how you connect to an HP iLO or
  RiLO board?
• Can you tell me how to connect to the HP Insight
  Management Web Agent?

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Questions?

• Thank you for your attention
• Any questions?