HP ProLiant DL380p Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 12

Power monitoring and management 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 SAS controllers CPU Memory Power supplies Fans Thermal sensors Version control For previous-generation servers, the Version Control Agent (VCA) is responsible for determining whether the server is out of date with its assigned baseline.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. This requires a VCA on every server. On ProLiant Gen 8 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 Gen 8 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. 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. We let you schedule and run Insight Control power and thermal reports using Crystal Reports software and automatically receive the reports by email. We let you import physical and power topology configuration updates into Insight Control power management from other data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools, such as HP Asset Center. Before, you could import only initial configurations. 12