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What is the HP Insight Integration for CA Unicenter? |
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The The HP Insight Integration for CA Network and System Manager simplifies system management by integrating the discovery and management of HP ProLiant, AlphaServer, and Integrity servers into the Unicenter NSM application.
The Insight Integration is a scalable solution that works directly with native Unicenter applications, including WorldView, Enterprise Console, and the Unicenter Agent Technology to monitor HP servers, clients, and storage that use Unicenter as the primary management console. With the Insight Integration, you can manage events for HP hardware and other enterprise resources from a common Unicenter interface.
Additional in-depth data for HP hardware is available through integrated menu items that enable access the HP System Management Homepage, HP Systems Insight Manager, and HP RILOE and iLO management tools.
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What's new in revision 3.5 |
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Revision 3.5 offers the following new features:
- Updated HP hardware discovery and SNMP notifications that support HP Insight Management Agents 8.60
- Support for Unicenter NSM r11.1 and r11.2
- Support for the HP Management Agents running on Windows 2008
- Option to generate Unicenter event messages directly from HP Systems Insight Manager
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What are the major benefits of using this solution |
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The benefits of implementing the Insight Integration for CA Unicenter include the following:
- Maximizes investments in HP hardware and Unicenter management software
- Simplifies IT management with single console operations
- Brings the benefits of Insight Management to Unicenter
- Access to HP systems data from anywhere on the network
- Improved response and diagnosis of system events
- Proactive monitoring helps reduce administration and increases systems availability.
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What operating systems and management console platforms are supported? |
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Support for the discovery of HP systems running the following operating systems:
- Tru64 UNIX
- OS/2
- SCO UnixWare
- SCO OpenServer Release 5
- Novell NetWare 5.x
- Microsoft® Windows® NT
- Windows® XP
- Windows® 2000
- Windows ServerT 2003
- Windows 2008
- Linux
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What Insight Management Agents are required? |
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The Insight Integration for CA Unicenter, revision 3.5 supports Insight Management Agents v5.0 through 8.60.
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Can I use any popular browser applications to access the web-enabled features of the Insight Management Agents? |
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The following browser solutions are recommended as a minimum:
- Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 1 or greater
- Mozilla 1.7 or later
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What service and support options are available for this product? |
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Support for installation and configuration is available via e-mail. HP will usually respond to your request on the next business day. Request support.
Services for this product all other HP technologies can be purchased through HP Services. Contact your HP representative or HP Channel Partner for more information.
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How is this product made available? |
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The Insight Integration for CA Network and System Manager can be downloaded from HP.com at no charge following a simple registration. For further details on Insight Management and to download the Insight Integration for CA Unicenter. |
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