HP 2G Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 11

Embedded HP Remote Support (coming soon) In every ProLiant Gen8 server, we will be enabling HP iLO to access HP Insight Remote Support software. HP Insight Remote Support Software delivers secure 24/7 support for HP servers and storage. We can remotely monitor your systems for hardware failures using secure technology that's been proven at thousands of companies around the world. In many cases, our proactive monitoring and alerting can help you avoid problems before they occur. Insight Remote Support can start working for you after a few keystrokes on a single activation screen. For more information, go to www.hp.com/go/iLO. Management and power monitoring We enhanced our monitoring and management tools-HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Insight Control power management software-for ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 We enhanced HP SIM for ProLiant Gen8 servers in regards to health monitoring, alerting, and version control. Health monitoring and alerting On ProLiant Gen8 servers, HP SIM will discover the iLO Management Engine and its host server without software agents. You do not need to install Insight Management agents or WBEM providers. The iLO Management Engine will detect core error conditions within the server and report those error conditions as SNMP alerts to HP SIM or other management consoles. The iLO Management Engine detects and reports error conditions for the following components: Embedded Smart Array controllers CPU Memory Power supplies Fans Thermal sensors Version control For previous-generation servers, the Version Control Agent (VCA) was responsible for determining whether the server is out of date with its assigned baseline. A baseline is a set of software and firmware that has been tested to work together on a particular server. That required a VCA on every server. On ProLiant Gen8 servers running HP SIM 7.0, users can assign the software and firmware versions that should be installed. The software column of the SIM system list indicates the status of the ProLiant server compared to the assigned baseline. HP Insight Control power management software For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we enhanced Insight Control power management: We added the Intelligent Power Discovery solution to BladeSystem enclosures attached to HP Intelligent PDUs. Insight Control power management will now automatically discover the power connections for the enclosures. For BladeSystem enclosures, you will no longer have to manually create and edit the rack in HP SIM and Insight Control. We upgraded Insight Control power management to help you identify unused or under-utilized servers that waste data center resources. Insight Control power management will generate a report summarizing system power consumption by CPU utilization and the age of the system. This enhanced report will aid in planning the retirement or repurposing of under-utilized servers. 11