HP ProLiant DL320e HP Intelligent Provisioning User Guide - Page 20

1. Select which monitoring and management protocols to install. Options include: • AMS • HP WBEM Providers • SNMP Protocol and Description AMS HP recommends installing AMS, so that this service can automatically send pre-failure messages to HP Support. There are no configuration settings for AMS. AMS is a service that collects OS configuration information about events and provides this information to the iLO Active Health System log. Collected information may include server inventory information about installed applications, information about processes (including processes running, system name, IP address, and operating system installed), and NIC information that iLO cannot access. When AMS is installed on Windows systems, the Agentless Management Service Control Panel is installed, which you can use to enable or disable AMS, and to uninstall AMS. AMS runs in the operating system context, but it is not an agent in the traditional sense. The information that AMS provides to iLO is a very small subset of the data that the traditional SNMP agents provide; therefore, AMS is a very lightweight component. AMS consumes less memory and CPU cycles compared to the in-band SNMP agents. For more information about iLO and AMS, see the HP iLO 4 User Guide available on the HP website (http:// www.hp.com/go/ilo). If you plan to use the HP System Management Homepage (which is installed by default and usually utilizes SNMP agents), do one of the following: • Configure SNMP pass-thru in iLO after setting up the server and installing the OS. Have iLO send the traps to the network interface that is configured in the OS. • Install WBEM providers instead of SNMP agents. To avoid duplicate event or trap reporting, HP recommends that the AMS and HP SNMP Agents are not run concurrently. No HP SNMP Agents are installed by default. NOTE: HP does not recommend installing AMS together with the Insight Management Agents and WMI Providers. If you must run AMS together with the Insight Management Agents on a Linux system, first start the hp-ams daemon process, and then decrease the number of traditional agents running on the system (for example, cmasm2d). For more information about AMS on Linux systems, see the manpage for hpHelper, the AMS daemon process. HP WBEM Providers Automatically configures the firewall to handle WBEM traffic. Use the WBEM Configuration screen to control the firewall port opening for remote WMI access to this system. Firewall configuration is necessary for direct remote connection to WMI. Clicking Yes enables Intelligent Provisioning to configure the firewall automatically. To enable the System Management Homepage, you must install WBEM providers. For security purposes, you must either use an Administrator account or a lower privileged user account that has been given access to WMI to access WMI management data. If you prefer to use a lower privileged Windows user account, you can set it up after Intelligent Provisioning has completed the operating system and SPP installation. For detailed instructions on using an optional lower privileged user account, see the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers User Guide on the HP website (http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ wbem/documentation.html). 2. Click the Continue right arrow to proceed to the next screen ("Step 3: OS Information" (page 21)). 20 Using Intelligent Provisioning