The HP Management Packs for Microsoft Systems Center 2007

What's new

The HP Storage Management Pack for System Center v2.0 includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Events and alerts generated by HP 3PAR Storage Systems
• Diagram View for HP Storage P4000 Systems
• Events and alerts generated by HP X5000 System
• Diagram View for the HP E5000 Messaging System

Overview

The HP Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager provides seamless integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager and now System Center Essentials by integrating predefined discovery and state monitoring policies, event processing rules and tasks, and diagram and topology views for the storage system.

This comprehensive integration solution allows administrators to proactively streamline IT operations and increase systems availability by monitoring Microsoft Windows environments and HP Storage products through a common Microsoft System Center Operation Manager console. It complements the Management Packs for ProLiant and Integrity servers—and also complements HP Systems Insight Manager tools to ensure that you have the broadest possible choice of capabilities when deploying a systems management infrastructure.

Provides a wide range of support for Microsoft Windows operating systems and HP storage platforms and software, includes full-fabric support for:

• HP 3PAR Storage System Arrays
• HP P4000 SAN Solutions
• HP Enterprise Virtual Arrays
• HP XP Series Arrays
• HP E5000 Messaging Systems
• HP X5000 Network Storage System
• HP Storage Modular Storage Arrays / P2000
• HP Tape Libraries
• HP VLS Virtual Tape Systems

You can see the complete and most up-to-date list of supported storage platforms and software on the HP SPOCK website.

Features and Benefits

The HP Storage Management Pack integrates hardware resource management into Microsoft System Center Operation Manager and provides the following functionality:

Automated Installation and Discovery

• Fully scripted installation that creates HP specific groups and copies HP rules, scripts, views, tasks and knowledge base data to the OpsMgr 2007 database
• Discover and manage multiple HP Storage products and management environments

Monitor HP Storage Hardware in Operations Manager

• Predefined rules to process and clearly display events and alerts for HP storage hardware in the Operations Manager Operator Console

Compatibility with HP Resource Management Tools

• Works with HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center

Ideal Environment

Small, Medium and Enterprise IT Environments where:

• HP Storage hardware has been adopted as the storage solution
• Microsoft System Center Operation Manager is a preferred management platform to monitor Windows resources and maintain systems availability

Key Applications:

• Datacenters and IT organizations that want to monitor the hardware infrastructure and Windows resources via a single console
• IT Administrators who need to respond quickly to Windows environment and HP storage events, and require ready access to in-depth hardware resource data provided by HP management tools
• Advanced remote management of Windows environments with HP Storage