The Hardware Management Pack enhances the functionality of the
Operations Manager to provide more detailed information about managed IBM® systems.
Using the Operations Manager Console with the Hardware Management Pack installed
After installing the IBM Hardware Management Pack, you can use
the Monitoring pane of the Operations Manager Console to monitor the system.
The IBM Hardware
folders and views in the Monitoring pane provide a complete view of the health
of your IBM System
x™ and BladeCenter® x86
Blade Systems.
Adding an IBM system to be managed by the Operations Manager
Use the Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 Discovery Wizard
to discover and add IBM systems to be managed. The Discovery Wizard deploys
the Hardware Management Pack to the discovered system.
Monitoring the health of systems, hardware components, and other targets
The Hardware Management Pack discovers and monitors the health
of hardware components: processors, memory, network adapters, storage, management
controllers, power supplies, fans, temperature sensors, and voltage sensors.
The Hardware Management Pack can also discover and monitor the health of system-management
software, such as IBM Director Agent, IPMI driver, IBM IPMI Mapping Layer, and ServeRAID™ Manager
Level 1 Agent.
Using Health Explorer to identify and resolve problems
You can use the Health Explorer to identify and resolve error states
that show up when monitoring IBM systems and hardware components. For a quick check
up, you can take a look at Active Alerts, Windows® Computer on IBM System x and BladeCenter x86
Blade Systems, or All IBM System x and BladeCenter x86 Blade Systems. These
views show any existing Alerts on your IBM hardware.
Using knowledge pages to resolve problems
You can access knowledge pages about errors, events, and components
to learn more about your systems and hardware components, and to learn how
to resolve errors when they occur.