Transform your data centre into best run server infrastructure with HP Insight Control Environment and HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem - time-smart management software that delivers total control, maximum flexibility, and tangible savings for your ProLiant infrastructure. With Insight Control Environment suites, you can expect to realize the following management benefits:

• Enhanced infrastructure stability and reduced incidence of unplanned downtime
• Reduced time and cost associated with infrastructure roll-out, change, and update
• Optimized utilization of data centre power and cooling facilities
• Efficient use of scarce IT talent.

Delivered on DVD media, Insight Control Environment suites use an integrated installer to deploy and configure HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and ProLiant Essentials management software rapidly and consistently, reducing manual installation procedures and speeding time to production. These solutions deliver complete lifecycle management for HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, including hardware health and performance monitoring; comprehensive remote control; rapid server deployment; vulnerability scanning and patch management; and power and thermal measurement, reporting, capping and regulation. The Insight Control Environment suites also manage 3rd party devices and integrate with leading enterprise management platforms through industry standards.

HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem include one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical Support and Update Service ensuring rapid access to HP support staff and proactive delivery of software updates. For more information about this service, please visit: http://www.hp.com/services/insight.

A license entitlement certificate is delivered in place of a license activation key. The license entitlement certificate is delivered via physical shipment for existing product numbers (with the exception of tracking licenses) and via e-mail for the new electronic license product numbers. The license entitlement certificate contains information needed to redeem license activation key(s) online or via fax. This new electronic redemption process allows for easier license management and better service and support tracking. For more information, please visit: http://www.hp.com/go/ICe-license.

What's New

• Support for HP iLO Advanced Pack Upgrade to Insight Control Environment Licenses

At A Glance

• HP Systems Insight Manager
• HP iLO Advanced Pack (ICE) or HP iLO Select Pack (ICE-BL)
• HP Insight Power Manager
• HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack
• HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack
• HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack
• HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack

NOTE: The integrated installer will recognize and use or upgrade existing installations of HP SIM 5.1 and RDP 3.10, 3.50 and 3.60 and can be used to update components to the latest revision supplied on the Insight Control Management DVD.

HP Insight Control Environment, No Media 1-Server License including 1 year of 24x7 Technical Support and Updates
NOTE: Customer will receive a printed license entitlement certificate via physical shipment. The license entitlement certificate must be redeemed online or via fax in order to obtain the license activation key(s). Includes one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical Support and Update Service.

Delivered on a single DVD for simplified installation and licensing. HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem contain HP SIM and key ProLiant Essentials software that provide total control, maximum flexibility and tangible savings from your investment in HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem infrastructure.

HP Insight Control Environment includes a single activation key for licensing Performance Management Pack, Insight Power Manager, Vulnerability, Patch Management Pack and Virtual Machine Management Pack. Separate license keys are provided for iLO Advanced and Rapid Deployment Pack.

HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem includes a single activation key for licensing Performance Management Pack, Insight Power Manager, Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack and Virtual Machine Management Pack. Separate license keys are provided for iLO Select and Rapid Deployment Pack.

The Insight Control Management DVD integrated installer provides a streamlined, automated process to deploy and configure HP SIM and ProLiant Essentials software more consistently and rapidly, with less manual intervention.

The integrated installer includes a wizard-based interface that presents a series of configuration questions. Once the configuration questions have been completed, each of the selected components will be deployed as a single process.

The new HP Insight Control Environment Advisor also checks to ensure that the host central management server meets all installation pre-requites prior to initiating the installation process. Once the installation has completed, use the Insight Control Management Software Update Utility to check for available software updates.

HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem, based on HP Systems Insight Manager provides a unified, secure and extensible platform to centrally manage servers, storage and other infrastructure devices across hetrogeneous operating system environments.

HP SIM provides core management services that include device discovery and identification, event views, health monitoring, inventory data collection, software version control and reporting. HP SIM is built on industry standards and is extensible with value-added ProLiant Essentials, Integrity Essentials and Storage Essentials as well as custom application and scripts to meet individual management needs.

HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem, through iLO Advanced Pack and iLO Select Pack, provide comprehensive Lights-Out remote management capabilities for ProLiant servers, including high-performance virtual KVM for routine and emergency remote administration, remote access to server power control and event logs, virtual media for simple deployment and update of remote servers, and single server power measurement and regulation.

With the latest versions of the iLO Advanced Pack and iLO Select Pack, HP now helps distributed IT teams effectively collaborate to solve complex IT problems. The new shared console capability allows up to four team members to view and share control of a single virtual KVM session. In addition "console replay" captures and saves screen video to enable review of failure sequences and easily document complex configuration administrative tasks.

HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem deliver precise power and thermal measurement and reporting for HP ProLiant ML/DL 300, 500 and 700 series and HP ProLiant BL servers, as well as HP BladeSystem infrastructure components. New power capping functionality complements existing power regulation technology by allowing customers to cap power usage at a particular wattage or at a percentage of a server's maximum power rating. This ensures that data centre IT staff and facilities managers have the information they need to optimize server density within existing power and cooling constraints and to ensure efficient use of power resources.

The Insight Power Manager function is supported on a select group of ProLiant servers that ship with the iLO2 management processor. For more information on supported server, please reference the Insight Power Manager Quick Specs at: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12623_ca/12623_ca.html

NOTE: Power management capability will not function for HP ProLiant DL 785 G5 servers.

HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem leverages Performance Management Pack (PMP) to detect impeding bottleneck conditions on HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity servers and HP shared storage. PMP provides proactive notification of building bottleneck conditions, and vital information to help debug and remediate existing performance issues.

Performance data is presented through an interactive graphical interface and can also be logged to a database for later analysis or reporting. PMP includes configurable settings to define monitoring frequency and proactive notification through HP Systems Insight Manager.

HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem deliver a complete deployment solution for HP ProLiant servers through Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP). The process includes server hardware configuration, image or script-based installation of OS and applications, and installation of HP ProLiant Support Pack drivers.

With Insight Control Environment in place, server deployments become faster, are more consistent, and less prone to human error.

HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem incorporates Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack (VPM) which integrates and simplifies the assessment and resolution of vulnerabilities in operating system and select application for Windows and Linux platforms from within HP Systems Manager.

Powered by STAT® Scanner (the only Common Criteria Certified scanner), Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack automates the detection of security vulnerabilities and provides actionable advice for problem resolution. It also facilitates automated patch deployment, selecting the appropriate patches based on the results of security scans.

VPM automatically downloads patches directly from vendor sources at customer-defined intervals. Updates can be downloaded directly into the patch repository or, in instances where firewall policies prevent http and ftp downloads, acquired outside the data centre and manually imported.

Now included with HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem and Insight Control Environment, Virtual Machine Management Pack delivers unified management and control of VMware®, Microsoft®, and Citrix virtual machines. Capabilities include association of virtual machines with their physical hosts in HP SIM; monitoring performance for easy identification of VMs or host servers reaching high CPU, memory or disk utilization levels; moving VMs between host servers, including initiating live moves (on supported platforms; requires VMotion for VMware VMs); and rapid recovery capabilities that enable restoration of VMs on any available host. Additionally, VMM offers the ability to evacuate virtual machines from VMware ESX host servers upon receipt of hardware predictive hardware failure alerts by initiating moves using VMware DRS and VMotion. This reduces downtime by relocating the VMs before the host server fails.

With unified management of physical and virtual resources, systems administrators now have the ability extend existing processes to the management of their virtualized infrastructure while leveraging best in class technology for virtual machine deployment, monitoring, and control.

HP Insight Control Environment supports management of all HP ProLiant ML/DL 300, 500 and 700 series servers, while HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem supports management of all ProLiant c-Class and recent ProLiant p-Class blade servers. There may be minor discrepancies in hardware support between different software components, so customers are encouraged to consult the Insight Control Management Support Matrix or individual QuickSpecs for the products listed in the "Included Products" section for specifics on platform support.

To enable the power management capabilities of HP Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem, target servers must have an embedded power metre. For a list of systems that support power management, please consult the Insight Control Management Support Matrix.

The central management server hardware hosting the Insight Control Environment or Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem must meet the following minimum requirements.

HP offers a number of software support services, many of which are provided to customers at no additional charge.

Software Technical Support and Update Service
Insight Control Environment and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem include one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical Support and Update Service. This service provides access to HP technical resources for assistance in resolving software implementation or operations problems. The service also provides access to software updates and reference manuals either in electronic form or on physical media as they are made available from HP. (Customers who purchase an electronic license to use are eligible for electronic updates only.) With this service, Insight Control and ProLiant Essentials customers will benefit from expedited problem resolution as well as proactive notification and delivery of software updates. For more information about this service, see: http://www.hp.com/services/insight.

After HP processes your support registration, you will receive a Service Agreement Identifier (SAID). In order to receive the software updates that you are entitled to, you must use your SAID and access the Software Update Manager (SUM) at the HP IT Resource Centre (ITRC) home page: http://www.itrc.hp.com

Join the Discussion
The HP Support Forum is a community-based, user-supported tool for HP customers to participate in discussions amongst the customer community about HP products. For discussions related to Insight Control and ProLiant Essentials software, see the "Management Software and System Tools" area.

Software and Drivers Download Pages
Provides latest software and drivers for your ProLiant products.

Management Security (http://www.hp.com/servers/manage/security)
HP is proactive in its approach to the quality and security of all its management software. Be sure to check this website often for the latest down loadable security updates.

Obtain the latest SmartStart Release (http://www.hp.com/servers/smartstart)
The SmartStart, Management, and Firmware CDs are now freely available for download following a simple registration from the SmartStart web site. If you wish to receive physical kits with each release, you can order single release kits from the SmartStart web site. To receive proactive notification when SmartStart releases are available, subscribe to Subscriber's Choice at: http://www.hp.com/go/subscriberschoice.

For support questions in the U.S. that are not covered in any of the above services, please call 1-800-HP-INVENT (1-800-474-6836). (When prompted, say "Insight Manager.") HP Worldwide numbers for HP SIM, Insight Control, and ProLiant Essentials are available at: http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact.html.

• HP Care Pack Total Education: This pack provides "credits" that can be used for any of more than 200 different instructor-led courses offered at HP education centres. Credits can also be used for any of more than 3,000 online courses offered through the HP IT Resource Centre.
• Technology-specific HP Care Pack: These services are designed to meet particular training needs specific to a certain technology or level of training.

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