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HP ProLiant Server Management Packs for Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager 2007 User Guide

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HP ProLiant Server Management Packs elements

The following identifies some of the major elements of the HP ProLiant Server Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 and the underlying elements used to collect data and process hardware events and state changes. The management packs support two sources of instrumentation: HP Insight Management Agents and HP Insight Management WBEM Providers:

For HP Insight Management Agents:

  • The HP ProLiant server discovery rules and scripts use HP Insight Management Agents, system BIOS data, and information from the registry to identify HP ProLiant servers and collate individual system configuration attributes.

  • HP ProLiant server state monitoring rules use data from HP Insight Management Agents MIB files to monitor the condition of HP ProLiant server hardware and to populate the State views in the Operations Manager 2007 Console. HP ProLiant server state monitoring rules also monitor the availability of key HP ProLiant management software and services, such as HP Insight Management Agents.

  • The HP ProLiant server event processing rules rely on HP Insight Management Agents and data written to the Windows® Event Log to identify and process HP ProLiant hardware events.

    When an HP Insight Management Agent generates an event, a corresponding entry is written to the Windows® Event log, which is the primary event data source used by Operations Manager 2007. If the HP event in the Windows® Event Log has an associated event processing rule defined by an HP ProLiant Server Management Pack, an Operations Manager alert is generated and written to the appropriate view in the Operations Manager Console.

    HP alerts in Operations Manager include clear event details and knowledge-based data designed to enable rapid analysis of real-time and prefailure conditions. Certain hardware events reported to the Windows® Event Log can also generate additional events that indicate a change in hardware state.

For HP Insight Management WBEM Providers:

  • The HP ProLiant server discovery rules and scripts use HP Insight Management WBEM Providers, system BIOS data, and information from WMI to identify HP ProLiant servers and collate individual system configuration attributes.

  • HP ProLiant server state monitoring rules use data from HP Insight Management WBEM Providers to monitor the condition of HP ProLiant server hardware and to populate the State views in the Operations Manager 2007 Console. HP ProLiant server state monitoring rules also monitor the availability of key HP ProLiant management software and services, such as HP Insight Management WBEM Providers.

  • The HP ProLiant server event processing rules rely on HP Insight Management WBEM Providers and data written to the Windows® Event Log to identify and process HP ProLiant hardware events.

  • When an HP Insight Management WBEM Provider generates an event, a corresponding entry is written to the Windows® Event log, which is the primary event data source used by Operations Manager 2007. If the HP event in the Windows® Event Log has an associated event processing rule defined by HP ProLiant Server Management Packs, an Operations Manager alert is generated and written to the appropriate view in the Operations Manager Console.

  • HP alerts in Operations Manager include clear event details and knowledge-based data designed to enable rapid analysis of real-time and prefailure conditions. Certain hardware events reported to the Windows® Event Log can also generate additional events that indicate a change in hardware state.

See "Using the software" for information on the components provided with the HP ProLiant Server Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007.
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