
technical paper
february 2001
hp netserver lp 1000r/2000r remote manageability
executive summary
The soaring proliferation of remote servers deployed by service
providers and data center facilities is occurring as many of
these same enterprises are centralizing and consolidating their
IT staff. As a result, service provider and data center IT
managers are seeking better tools and techniques for remotely
managing their sprawling infrastructures. At the same time,
cost-conscious service providers must also confront the
manageability challenges inherent in supporting internal and
external service level agreements (SLAs) that guarantee
specific performance criteria. Regardless of an infrastructure’s
size, these converging trends continue to challenge those IT
professionals responsible for managing far-flung computing
networks while still trying to control operational and labor costs.
HP has an established expertise in the design and integration
of intelligent manageability features for its Netserver product
family. This technical paper describes how HP has
incorporated a suite of remote manageability features into the
HP Netserver LP 1000r and LP 2000r low-profile servers in
order to give service providers better control over their
distributed systems.
These manageability features include three choices for remote
manageability:
• Alert On LAN (AOL) and Wake-On-LAN—Provides the ability
to power cycle and gracefully shut the server down over the
LAN
• HP Integrated Remote Assistant (IRA)—Serial port-based
remote capabilities that can be accessed through the LAN
using a terminal concentrator
• Optional HP Toptools Remote Control Card (TTRCC)—
Provides comprehensive LAN-based management
capabilities
And additional manageability software:
• pcAnywhere
• HP Toptools
• HP OpenView Managex Event Manager
This paper also provides information that can serve as a guide
for those users who must make the right technology choices in
order to support infrastructure growth.
what is remote manageability?
Operating a complex and geographically dispersed data
center or service provider facility around-the-clock can be a
time-consuming and expensive proposition. Until recently,
IT managers have had to dispatch scarce service personnel to
remote locations to perform simple, and often repetitive,
system management tasks. As a result, one of the key
challenges for resource-strapped IT managers has been to find
and implement technologies that can provide a single point of
control for remotely monitoring their off-site servers. In
addition, these remote manageability tools needed to initiate
action if a
failure did occur. With the explosive growth of remote server
deployment, data centers and service provider facilities now
require the ability to remotely manage such important
administration functions as power on/off cycling as well as
problem resolution.
HP has a variety of solutions that address your remote
management needs:
• Remote diagnostics
• Remote configuration
• Remote BIOS/firmware update
• System event log viewing
• OS/application monitoring
• Paging and e-mail notification
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