HP ProLiant BL660c HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management - Page 6

Since the iLO Management Engine handles the management, HP SIM can discover the IP address of the iLO Management Engine and its associated host server without requiring OS-based software (see Figure 4). When using HP Agentless Management without installing the HP Agentless Management Service or any other OS-based software, HP SIM communicates with iLO to get the data and alerts for the following core hardware subsystems: • Processor • Memory • Storage • Power • Thermal conditions Figure 4: HP SIM 7.0 can discover a bare-metal server. After HP SIM 7.0 discovers a bare metal ProLiant Gen8 server, we recommended using one of the following three methods to configure HP Agentless Management: • Use HP Intelligent Provisioning, Service Pack for ProLiant, or the VMware offline bundles and custom image to configure the ProLiant server with the HP Agentless Management Service. • Use the HP Scripting tool kit [typically through a Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) or HP ProLiant iLO Embedded Virtual Media environment] to configure the iLO user accounts, apply an optional iLO license, and configure the SNMP parameters. • Use the iLO 4 GUI or XML scripting interface to configure an individual iLO's parameters. Configuration options Through the iLO 4 GUI, you can enable either HP Agentless Management or SNMP Pass-thru. When HP SIM 7.0 discovers a ProLiant Gen8 server, it looks to see whether HP Agentless Management or SNMP Pass-thru is enabled. This setting determines where HP SIM gets management data. Using the information in the following sections, you can choose what configuration is best for your environment: • HP Agentless Management: the recommended configuration • SNMP Pass-thru: for management environments requiring SNMP Agents(not available when Agentless Management is in use) • HP Agentless Management and SNMP Agents or WBEM Providers: not a recommended configuration 6