The HP ProLiant Server Management Packs for Operations Manager
2007 integration is designed to perform the following major
functions:
Automatically identify, group, and display HP ProLiant servers
within the Operations Manager 2007 Console
Populate Operations Manager with server attributes and
configuration data for HP ProLiant hardware and software
components
Monitor and display the state of HP ProLiant server hardware and
the associated management services
Proactively identify, translate, and display HP ProLiant
hardware events written to the Windows® Event Log as Operations
Manager alerts or the installed version of the HP Insight
Management Agents or HP Insight Management WBEM Providers
Provide browser-based links to HP management tools for hardware
resource management and advanced remote administration from within
Operations Manager 2007
The following elements of the HP ProLiant Server Management
Packs are copied to the Operations Manager database:
Classes and Attributes
Discoveries
Monitors
Rules
Tasks
Views
HP ProLiant Server Management Packs are a set of unrelated
management packs. After the installation of HP ProLiant Server
Management Packs, the Operations Manager transfers the primary HP
ProLiant management packs to each computer system under the
Operations Manager Agent. HP ProLiant Management Packs perform an
initial discovery to verify the system is supported ProLiant
server. If the discovery succeeds, the appropriate additional
management packs are transferred to the HP servers. These
management packs then run a detailed discovery process that enables
state monitoring and event processing.
After the server is properly discovered, HP ProLiant server
information can be seen on the Operations Manager console. HP
ProLiant server grouping is performed on the Operations Manager
Server. The discovered inventory data and monitored state are
reflected on the state and diagram views.
This process does not take place for "agentless" servers under
Operations Manager. Agentless servers are monitored by an Operation
Management Agent run on Operations Manager Server. This agent
performs management pack operation on the target server remotely
which causes higher network traffic and process power consumption
on Operation Manager Server. HP recommends keeping the number of
agentless servers in your Operations Manager environment to a
minimum.
