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Group Configuration

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» CPU Threshold
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» Cache Hits Thresholds
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» Security Configuration
» Trap Configuration
» HP Insight Management Agent Configuration

Group Configuration

Group Configuration of the Web Agent is one of the tasks in HP Systems Insight Manager that operates using Secure Task Execution (STE). During task setup you can view and edit the source device's configuration. This configuration can then be copied to a target set or a group of devices. This can be useful for copying existing configurations from a source device to multiple destinations. The destinations are determined by the selected query. The HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide is located on the Management CD.

HP Insight Management Agent must have at least one community string predefined with re-create rights. Additionally, the HP Insight Management Agent must have sets enabled. To enable sets go to Control Panel Management Agents

The group configuration support based thresholds has three items that can be set using the HP Systems Insight Manager group configuration screen.

Related topics. 

» CPU Threshold
» Page File Thresholds
» Cache Hits Thresholds

Select a source device and click [Next] from the HP Systems Insight Manager screen. Select the [Edit] link from the group configuration tree display for the HP Subsystem Status information. Select Threshold Settings > Threshold Properties. If the cursor is placed over any of the threshold settings a tool tip will be shown stating “Threshold warning and critical value settings, a value of 0 means it is not set”. You can select one or more of the settings before saving the configuration information. You do not have to select all settings. The warning and critical levels are grouped together for each setting.

Warning and critical threshold limits can be set for the properties where indicated in the list below. Alarms are sent when the performance property value meets the threshold conditions and stays for 15 data collection intervals. The data collection interval is set in the HP Management Agents Control Panel applet under the Windows Control Panel Settings. Alarms are sent to the configured destinations through SNMP and e-mail.

To set thresholds the user must have administrator access on the managed device.

CPU Threshold

% CPU Time Percentage of time that all processors are executing a non-idle thread. Designed as a primary indicator of processor activity, this counter is calculated by measuring the time that each processor spends executing the thread of the idle process in each sample interval, and subtracting that value from 100%. (Each processor has an idle thread, that consumes cycles when no other threads are ready to run.) It can be viewed as the percentage of the sample interval spent doing useful work. This counter displays the average percentage of busy time observed during the sample interval. It is calculated by monitoring the time, the service was inactive, and then subtracting that value from 100%.

CPU Threshold

Page File Thresholds

Paging File Usage Percent (Thresholds Supported): The amount of the Page File instance in use in percent. Lower is better.

Page File Thresholds

Cache Hits Thresholds

Copy Read Hits Percent (Thresholds Supported): Cache Copy Read Hits Percent is the percentage of cache copy read requests that hit the cache, that is, they did not require a disk read in order to provide access to the page in the cache. A copy read is a file read operation that is satisfied by a memory copy from a page in the cache to the application's buffer.

The higher the value, the better the performance. Thresholds limits have to be set accordingly.

Cache Hits Thresholds

SNMP Configuration

With the use of group configuration administrators are now able to quickly change the SNMP configuration settings on multiple devices through a single operation by utilizing HP Systems Insight Manager. To learn more about creating an SNMP Group Configuration Control Task, see the HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide. The example below details how to set the service on a single device.

Cache Hits Thresholds

SNMP Agent Configuration

The SNMP Agent Configuration page is used to view and set the SNMP (Win32 Service) Agent configuration.

The SNMP Agent page allows setting the Contact, Location and Service type for the SNMP service.

If you change the SNMP Agent configuration, you need to click the [Apply] button to send the configuration request to the server. If your server is running Windows NT 4.0, the SNMP service settings will not take effect until you click the [Restart Agents] button.

  • Contact displays the contact person responsible for the SNMP management of the server

  • Location displays the location of the server

  • Service displays the service type for the server

Wait until you have completed changing all of the settings before clicking the [Restart Agents] button, you will not be able to refresh the page or make other changes while the restart is occurring. Once you click the [Restart Agents] button, and then refresh the page to view the updated information.

Security Configuration

The SNMP Security Configuration page is used to view and set the SNMP (Win32 Service) Security configuration.

The SNMP Agent page allows setting the SNMP Community String Accepted Host List, and Send Authentication Trap settings for the SNMP service.

The security rights for an accepted community name are NONE, NOTIFY, READ_ONLY, READ_WRITE and READ_CREATE.

The accepted host list is the host names or IP addresses of the machines that your server is allowed to accept SNMP requests from.

The accepted host list will always have 127.0.0.1 listed by default so that SNMP and the Web Agent service will function correctly.

You can disable or enable the Send Authentication Trap flag.

You may [add], [edit] or [remove] security configurations. After the changes have been made on the browser, you need to click the [Apply] button.

If your server is running Windows NT 4.0, the SNMP security settings will not take effect until you click the [Restart Agents] button. Wait until you have completed changing all of the settings (Agent, Security, Traps) before clicking the [Restart Agents button], you will not be able to refresh the page or make other changes while the restart is occurring. Once you click the [Restart Agents button], and then refresh the page to view the updated information.

Trap Configuration

This page is used to set the SNMP (Win32 Service) Trap community names and destinations.

The Trap Destination hosts are a semi-colon delimited list of servers where the traps for a specific community name are sent. To enable your ProLiant server to send alerts to HP Systems Insight Manager and other management applications, you must configure the appropriate trap destination(s). Trap destinations may be input as an IP address, and IPX address, or a host name.

After all the changes have been made on the browser, you need to click the [Apply] button.

If your server is running Windows NT 4.0, the SNMP Trap settings will not take effect until you click on the [Restart Agents] button. Wait until you have completed changing all of the settings (Agent, Security, Traps) before clicking the [Restart Agents] button, since you will not be able to refresh the page or make other changes while the restart is occurring.

HP Insight Management Agent Configuration

The HP Insight Management Agent page is used to view and set the HP Insight Management Agent configuration.

If you make HP Systems Insight Manager changes, you must click the [Restart Agents] button for changes to the HP Systems Insight Manager (Server Agent, Foundation Agents, Storage Agent, and NIC Agents) settings to take effect on the server.

Server Role displays the description of the system’s role or function. You can also set the Server Role text on multiple devices by creating a Group Configuration Task in HP Systems Insight Manager. To learn more about how to set the server role see the HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide.

Wait until you have completed changing all of the settings before clicking the [Restart Agents] button, you will not be able to refresh the page or make other changes while the restart is occurring. Once you click the [Restart Agents] button, and then refresh the page to view the updated information.