Common Third-Party Management Packs


In this section, we focus on some of the more commonly used third-party management packs that are available to IT administrators to better manage their environments. For each management pack, we'll provide an overview, the installation procedure for the management pack, and a breakdown of the components, scripts, and tasks that are associated with that management pack.

Dell OpenManage Management Pack

Dell has partnered with Microsoft to strongly compete against HP and IBM in the systems management arena. Dell's OpenManage is the solution for systems management with Dell hardware. OpenManage consists of several products, one of which is a management pack for MOM called the OpenManage management pack. The OpenManage management pack can be obtained on Dell's web site (http://www.support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&releaseid=R98393&SystemID=PWE_FOS_XEO_2650&os=WNET&osl=en&deviceid=5934&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=4&formatcnt=1&fileid=127527).

Dell's OpenManage management pack provides the following capabilities:

  • Manages and monitors events from OpenManage Server Administrator and Array Manager

  • Groups Dell servers that have the OpenManage Server Administrator installed

  • Supplies a capability to launch OpenManage Server Administrator from within an alert (this is done via a Dell-supplied script)

  • Provides a new notification group called hardware support

  • Provides Dell-supplied knowledge for all events supported in the OpenManage management pack

Installation

After you download DOMMP2.exe from Dell's support site, go ahead and run the executable; you will be prompted for the location to extract the management pack's files to. The Dell OpenManage management pack consists of the following files:

  • DOMMP2.akm

  • readme.txt

  • DMP2UG.pdf

As of this writing, the latest version of the OpenManage management pack is 2.0.

The next step is to import the management pack; see Chapter 8 for more information on importing management packs. After importing the management pack, check the version number against the version number stated in the Management Pack and Product Connector Catalog.

Components

The following table describes the components included with the Dell OpenManage Management Pack.

Attributes

DellOMSAAttrib (Boolean)

Computer Groups

Dell Computers

Notification Groups

Hardware Support

Scripts

The following table describes the scripts included with the Dell OpenManage Management Pack.

Script

Description

Dell Agent Service Discovery

Perform service discovery for Dell System Attributes

Dell Agents State Monitoring

Monitor the status of the server and storage components

Dell RAC Console Launch

Script to formulate the RAC URL for the RAC launch

DellOMSALaunch

Appends the OMSA launch URL to the Alert description field

Tasks

The following table describes the tasks included with the Dell OpenManage Management Pack.

Task

Context

Update Dell State view

Agent-managed server

HP Proliant and Integrity Management Packs

HP provides two management packs. One pack targets the Proliant Server line and the other targets the Integrity Server line. These management packs provide integrated alert processing, state monitoring, and hardware resource lifecycle management. These management packs can be obtained via HP's web site (http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/mom2005/).

HP's Proliant and Integrity management packs provide the following capabilities:

  • Automated installation and discovery

  • Monitor HP server hardware

  • Access to HP resource management tools

HP Proliant Management Pack Installation

After you download HPPROMOM05.zip from HP's web site, go ahead and extract the Zip file's content. The HP Proliant management pack consists of the following files:

  • hpProLiantMP01_0.akm

  • Readme1st.txt

  • hpsvrmom05.pdf

As of this writing, the latest version number for this management pack is 1.0. After importing the management pack, check the version number against the version number stated in the Management Pack and Product Connector Catalog.

Components

The following table describes the components included with the HP Proliant and Integrity Management Packs.

Attributes

HP Proliant Insight Management Agents Installed (Boolean)

 

HP Proliant Insight Management Agents Version Number (string)

 

HP Systems Insight Manage Installed (Boolean)

Computer Groups

HP Proliant Insight Management Agents

 

HP Proliant Servers

 

HP Proliant Servers BL

 

HP Proliant Servers DL

 

HP Proliant Servers ML

 

HP Systems Insight Manager Hosts

Notification Groups

Not supplied

Scripts

The following table describes the scripts included with the HP Proliant and Integrity Management Packs.

Script

Description

HP Proliant Servers Computer Model Discovery

Discovers HP Proliant Servers

HP Proliant Servers Service Discovery

Discovers HP Proliant Server Service

Tasks

The following table describes the tasks included with the HP Proliant and Integrity Management Packs.

Task

Context

HP Lights-Out Management Processor

Management Server

HP System Management Homepage

Console

HP Systems Insight Manager

Console

HP Integrity Management Pack Installation

After you download HPINTMOM05.zip from HP's site, go ahead and extract the Zip file's content. The HP Integrity management pack consists of the following files:

  • hpIntegrityMP01_0.akm

  • Readme1st.txt

  • hpsvrmom05.pdf

As of this writing, the latest version number for this management pack is 1.0. After importing the management pack, check the version number against the version number stated in the Management Pack and Product Connector Catalog.

Components

The following table describes the components included with the HP Integrity Management Pack.

Attributes

HP Integrity Insight Management Agent Installed (Boolean)

 

HP Integrity Insight Management Agent Version Number (string)

 

HP Integrity Server (Boolean)

Computer Groups

HP Integrity Insight Management Agents

 

HP Integrity Servers

Notification Groups

Not supplied

Scripts

The following table describes the scripts included with the HP Integrity Management Pack.

Script

Description

HP Integrity Servers Computer Model Discovery

Discovers HP Integrity Servers

HP Integrity Servers Service Discovery

Discovers HP Integrity Server Service

Tasks

The following table describes the tasks included with the HP Integrity Management Pack.

Task

Context

HP Systems Insight Manager

Console

HP Management Processor

Management Server

HP System Management Homepage

Console

IBM Director v5.10 Upward Integration Module Management Pack

IBM provides the Director Upward Integration Module (UIM) Management Pack to augment MOM with richer, more granular hardware management information from IBM Director. The Director UIM management pack can be obtained via IBM's web site (http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-61783&velxr-layout=print).

The IBM Director UIM management pack provides the following capabilities:

  • Quickly discover systems running the IBM Director Agent or Core Services software

  • Capture events generated from IBM Director systems and send alerts to notify your administrator of potential system problems

  • Identify and rapidly resolve problems that occur on systems running IBM Director

  • Display detailed information on issues by component with the IBM Director role and state view in the MOM console

Installation

After you download dir5.10_uim_mom.exe from IBM's site, go ahead and run the executable. You are prompted for the location to extract the management pack's files to. The IBM Director UIM management pack consists of the following files:

  • IBMHardwareMP.akm

As of this writing, the latest version number of this management pack is 5.10. After importing the management pack, check the version number against the version number stated in the Management Pack and Product Connector Catalog.

Components

The following table describes the components included with the IBM Director v5.10 Upward Integration Module Management Pack.

Attributes

IBM Director Core Services

Computer Groups

IBM Director Core Services 5.lx

Notification Groups

IBM Director Operators

Scripts

The following table describes the scripts included with the IBM Director v5.10 Upward Integration Module Management Pack.

Script

Description

IBM Director Core Services 5.10 Indications

Process WMI indications from Director Core Services 5.1x

IBM Director Core Services 5.x Discovery

Discovers IBM Director Core Services 5.x

Tasks

The IBM Director UIM management pack does not have any tasks.



Professional MOM 2005, SMS 2003, and WSUS
Professional MOM 2005, SMS 2003, and WSUS
ISBN: 0764589636
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 132

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