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17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections
This chapter addresses the following topics:
•
“Introduction to collections” (page 147)
•
“Populating a collection” (page 148)
•
“Adding servers and switches to an Insight Control for Linux collection” (page 148)
•
“Removing a managed system or switch from an Insight Control for Linux collection” (page 149)
17.1 Introduction to collections
The Insight Control for Linux installation process creates an HP SIM collection specifically for Insight
Control for Linux. The Insight Control for Linux collection identifies the systems and related objects
(servers, switches, and HP BladeSystem
enclosure s) that Insight Control for Linux can monitor and
manage. A collection enables you to easily designate and track managed objects, and the Insight
Control for Linux collection is divided into subcollections of managed objects based on object type.
The default Insight Control for Linux collection name is icelx, but you can override the default
name during the Insight Control for Linux installation process.
The collection name also represents a virtual prefix for referencing managed system s when using
Insight Control for Linux commands. For example, the default collection name icelx enables you
to reference managed systems using condensed canonical notation such as icelx[1-15] where
icelx1
through icelx15 are the internally assigned names for the managed systems in the
icelx collection.
When you open HP SIM, the Insight Control for Linux collection and its subcollections are listed in
the left frame under Systems Managed by Insight Control for Linux.
For more information about HP SIM collections, see the &HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide;.
Table 20 lists the specific subcollections that Insight Control for Linux manages.
Table 20 Insight Control for Linux subcollections
How populated Description Subcollection name Object type
Populated either manually or
automatically by entering Yes in Properly licensed servers placed
in this subcollection are enabled
for Insight Control for Linux {collection_name}_Servers Server
the Auto-populate field when
advanced monitoring and
management. running the
Options
→IC-Linux→Configure
Management Services task; the
Auto-populate option places all
managed systems with an Insight
Control for Linux license into the
collection.
Populated automatically when
you run the Provides access to the
management processor on each
managed system. {collection_name}_Console_Ports Console Port
Options
→IC-Linux→Configure
Management Services task, with
the associated console ports of
any servers listed in the Servers
collection.
Populated automatically when
you run the If the hardware configuration
contains HP blade servers and {collection_name}_Enclosures Enclosures
Options
→IC-Linux→Configure
enclosure s, this collection
Management Services task, with provides access to the
enclosures.
any enclosures, known to HP
SIM, that also contain blade
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