Esmpro Customer Presentation

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NEC Express serversManagement tools

G.MICHONSenior Manager Pre-salesServer & Storage solutions

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NEC Management framework

MasterScope is a series of Integrated System Management software products which simplify day-to-day operations and control whole IT infrastucture

Operations Management

Job Management Software Deployment Platform Optimization Backup

JobCenter Deployment Manager SigmaSystemCenterNetworker/ NetVault/

NetBackUp

System Management

System Management Network Management Storage Management App Management

System ManagerOperations Navigator Network Manager StorageManager Application Navigator

MISSION CRITICAL OPERATIONS

Unified Management

Corporate Management

IT Service Level Management

Invariant Analyzer

Server & Storage Management (Hardware)

ESMPRO ManagerStorage Manager

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Integrated mgmtMasterScope MCO

NW monitoring

Resourcemonitoring

Service,Process monitoring

HW monitoring

Log monitoring

Server alive monitoring by ICPM and SNMP trap monitoring

Check the running status by monitoring up down status of Windows service and process

Monitor logs from OS and AP and detect abnormal situation

Monitor threshold of OS performance (remaining CPU, memory, disk etc).

Monitor performance information of middleware soft (DB, AP server, Web server etc). Monitor service level of certain protocols

Application mgmtMasterScope Application Navigator

Server mgmtMasterScope SystemManager

Network mgmtMasterScope Network Manager

Target layer

Storage monitoring Storage mgmt tool for running status and config mgmt.

Storage mgmtMasterScope StorageManager

Detects HW failure HDD, fan,.), component status changeRemote Control

Server HW mgmtESMPRO Manager

Monitoring points Product lineup

AP performance monitoring

Today Focus

NEC Management framework

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ESMPRO Manager version 5

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ESMPRO5 Server Management Overview

At a glance

Management solution for NEC Express5800 servers

Bundled with Express5800 servers (Express Builder CD-ROM)

Centralized and distributed management of NEC Express servers

Management Features

Real-time monitoring

Hardware components status

Software information (Firmware/OS)

Alert management (Hardware failure/status change)

Performance/usage monitoring

Power control & monitoring

Remote control operations (Power, Logs, Batch, ..)

Integration with other frameworks (HP Open-View, Microsoft MOM, Nagios ..)

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Server Infrastucture monitoring

NEC Express5800Servers

ESMPROManager

WEB-based Manager

InternetIntranet

ESMPRO agents(SNMP)

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Server hardware monitoring

Hardware failureComponent status change

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

ESMPRO agents(SNMP)

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Power supply, Fans failureDisk failureNetwork failure

Notification of any hardware failure & component status change

An alert is sent to the manager

Running

Warning

Error

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Event/failure notification & escalation

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

Running

Warning

Error

Notification of hardware failure & component status change

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Send an e-mail to the administrator

Server in error

e-mailwith source of error(s)

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Discovering Server Infrastucture

NEC Express5800

Servers

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

ESMPRO agents(SNMP)

Detection& organization

Discovery

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Server detection and registration in the organization

Choose the method to detect the servers :IP range or network mask

Manual or automatic detection

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Server organization (Root = Infrastucture)

Server tree organization

Servers are organized in groups which reflects the

organization

Add group(s)Detect server(s) inside a given group

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Monitoring server health status

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

2+2 Power Configuration (Hot-Plug)


Power supply, FansDisk Network Mother boards………

Hardware componentshealth status

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Likely to be the most important to monitor …

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

2+2 Power Configuration (Hot-Plug)


Power supply, FansDisk Network Mother boards………

More prone to failures ….

Power supply Hard disk drive

Much less problems with Mother board PCI boards

Very critical component Memory Dimms But highly reliable ECC + optional redundancy on top

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Server health status

All server components

Main serverinformation

Running

Warning

Error

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Deeper dive in

Detailled view of server componentsExpand the tree

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Alert viewer

Alerts/Events from the monitored servers

Server(s) name and IP adress of the monitored server(s)

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Alert detail (SNMP trap)

Trap error:One of power supply has failed

An e-mail is sentTake the corrective

action

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Alert forwarding to an SMTP mailer

Alerts/Events forwarding to SMTP e-mail SMTP

mailer

Adress recipient

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Remote Control operations

Functionnal server groups

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

Production

Test

Remote control operations Power control Batch Server update (Bios/Firmware) Running time …….

DevelopmentCan be executed at server group or individual server level

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Remote control operations

Remoteoperations

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Power measurements at server level

Power consumptionfor a given server

Measurementperiod

Power

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Power measurements at server group level

Power consumptionfor a group of servers

Cumulated power consomption of all servers in a group

Server Power consumption

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Reduce Power consumption (ECO)

Reduce/adjust Powerconsumptionat server level

Different levelsPower reduction by lowering CPU frequency

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Choose the groupChoose the server(s) inside the group

Reduce Power consumption (ECO)

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Remote Power Control at server/group level

Power controlOS shutdownReset operationsfor a given server or a group of servers

Choose the groupChoose the server(s) inside the group

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Remote batch at server/group level

Choose the batch to execute and scedule it

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NEC Express5800

Servers

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

Manage the software package version

In typical organisation

Difficulties to maintain software package homogeneity Most of the time software packages repository are not updated regularly Or merely do not exist Updates are manual

Requirement for a fully automated solution

Bios 1.21

Bios 1.27

Firm xxx

Firm yyy

Package 1

Package 2

Software control and versionning

is non accurate

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NEC Express5800

Servers

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

Software update with NEC Express update

Download update modules automatically from a unique central repository (NEC)

BIOS, Firmware, ….

Notify the servers on which updates are required Specify the update required state with special icon

Instruct Starting Remote Update Easy operation from ESMPRO console Multiple update modules to multiple servers

Remotely confirm update completion

Display the completion result with special icon

Central Repository (NEC Web site)

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NEC Express Update

Download software packages from this NEC web site

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NEC Express Update (package dowload)

Select the software package(s) to installon a given server or a group of server

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NEC Express Update (package dowload)

Current software package on a given server

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In-Band server management

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

ESMPRO agent(SNMP)

Lan

Redundant Lan(teaming)

In-band management

In case of network failureTransparent failoverNO communication loss

Network connection down notification

Take the corrective action

Lan ports

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Out-of-Band server management

ESMPROManager

InternetIntranet

ESMPRO agent(SNMP)

Lan

Redundant Lan(teaming)

In-band management

Complete network failure

Lan ports

Lan management port

Out-of-Band management

DedicatedLan

Login to NEC Express Scope engine

Need another way for getting access

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Out-of-Band server management

Login to NEC ExpressScope engine

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Out-of-band management with NEC ExpressScope

Expressscope V2:

BMC designed by NEC and compliant with IPMI 2.0 standard.

Out-of-band management mode.

Dedicated management port with web server.

Real time sensor reading

SEL log can be saved into a file.

Remote Power Control.

Server monitoring (T°C, Voltage, Fan speed, Chassis Intrusion, PSU Module, HDD Status, Power

Consumption)

Remote media : including write access on USB key.

Remote KVM as standard : faster, ready to use.

BMC network configuration by SETUP

Alerts by SNMP traps or SMTP mail.

CLI using TELNET / SSH with extended commands.

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Expressscope V2

5x SATA(1.5G or 3G bps) (No Repeater)

8.5-10.6GB/s1066/1333MHz Front Side Bus

5.3GB/s

5.3GB/s

5.3GB/s

5.3GB/s

Intel®Xeon™

Processor

Intel®Xeon™

Processor

Intel®Xeon™

Processor

Intel®Xeon™

Processor

Intel® 5000P(Blackford)

Intel® 5000P(Blackford)

Memory12x DDR2-667 FBD(Up to 48GB)ECC, Chipkill, Spare, Mirror2-4Way Interleavedx4 ESI

PCIe(x8)4GB/s

Intel® 6321(ESB2E)

Intel® 6321(ESB2E)

GbE PHY(2ch)(82563EB)

MAC 2ch

1x ATA100

PCIe(x8)PCIe(x8) 4GB/s

PCIe(x8)PCIe(x8) 4GB/s

64bit/133MHz PCI-X (3.3V)

Full height riser

PCI-X133 1.06GB/s

PCIe(x8) 4GB/sPCIe(x8)

Low profile riser

ServerEngines™Server Management Controller2

(Pilot2)

ServerEngines™Server Management Controller2

(Pilot2)

DRAM

2x Serial Ports (1x Rear, 1x internal)

MAC 1ch

BMC

10/100 PHY(1ch)

2x US

B

1x VGA2x PS/2

for BMC & VRAM

PC

Ie(x1)

SPI Flash for BMCVideo

LP

C TPM1.2

BIOSFlash

RMII

CPU2 LGA 771 sockets

4x SATA for for HDD & 1x SATA for tape drive

I/OAT (Standard)2x LAN (for General Use)

1x IPMB

6x USB2.0 (2x Front, 2x Rear, 2x Internal*)

1x LAN(for Management)

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Ethernet Management Port

Dedicated management port

IP address policy:

1. Default IP address is 192.168.1.1 (DHCP disabled)2. Can be forced to IP address3. Can be changed to DHCP

Web server policy:

4. Disabled by default5. Can be enabled for HTTP6. Can be enabled for HTTPS

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Pre requisites / Log In

OS and Browser: • XP SP2 with IE6/7 or Firefox 2.0• Vista with IE7 or Firefox 2.0• RedHat 4 with Firefox 2.0

JRE:• 1.6 from SUN Microsystems or +

Connection URL:

http://bmc_address:bmc_port

http: better performancehttps: better security

Default account (must be changed for security):

Log in : administratorPassword: <none>

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Main Screen: the Control Panel Function

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Power Control Menu

These power ON/OFF controls are hardware commands send to BMC

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IPMI

MC Information => BMC Firmware versionBackup IPMI => IPMI.DAT fileSystem Environment => Real time sensor reading (T°, V, speed, PSU, Watts…)

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Sensor Real Time reading

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Remote Devices

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Remote Devices Licence

Licence is always bundled with server but still has to be entered into BMC (log out/log in required)Be careful on similar character of license (1 and l, …)

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Remote Devices: Remote KVM 1/2

Remote KVM allows to redirect video, keyboard and mouse. Mouse cursor synchronization is auto under Windows (see User Guide for maximum resolution)

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Remote Devices: Remote KVM 2/2

In case of key map problem, a virtual keyboard can be used (EN/FR)

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Remote Devices: Remote Media

Following device/image can be used for remote media:

• Floppy drive• CD/DVD drive• USB Key (read/write)• ISO image of Floppy/CD/DVD

Device is detected as USB device on server =>

Refer to User Guide for limitation on Remote Media

On 100MB LAN, Remote Media Transfert is = to 1.6x CDROM speed

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Configuration (Network/Web/Alerts/CLI)

Network=> LAN settingsWeb Server=> security settings of WebAlert=> SMTP alertsMiscellaneous=> telnet/SSH settings

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Configuration (Users)

- Maximum of three users connected simultaneously

- Three users levels: Administrator: view IPMI info, view/change settings, access to remote KVM/Media Operator: view IPMI info, view settings only and no remote KVM/MediaUser: view IPMI info only

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CLI by Telnet/SSH

Once CLi enabled, NEC BMC specific commands can be used to control server remotely (See User Guide for details)

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Integration withother Management framework

HP-Open View (OVO & NNM)Microsoft MOM

Nagios


Integration with Nagios

NEC Express with ESMPRO Agent

Nagios management server

Net-S

NM

P(snm

ptrapd)

SN

MP

TT

Windows computer with ESMPRO Manager

trap

redirect trap to Nagios

Nagios external command file

Nagios

Nagios periodically check the command file.Output

the result.


Requirements for Nagios integration

Linux, RHEL Server release 5.2 for this document

Nagios, version 3.0.6 for this document

Net-S NMP, providing trap capture tool “snmptrapd”. Tested version: 5.4.2.1

Associated Perl package Net-SNMP.

SNMP trap translator (aka SNMPTT), that translates SNMP traps to human readable format, and sends the result to Nagios. Tested version: 1.2

NEC ESMPRO Manager, that receives SNMP traps from ESMPRO Agent, then redirects them to the Nagios management server.

http://www.net-snmp.org/

http://www.snmptt.org/


Microsoft Operation Manager 2007

Select the management pack to import

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Define policy to receive ESMPRO traps in OVO

Select Action > New > SNMP Interceptor menu from OVO.

Press “New…”to define rule.

(see next page)


Define rule Condition in OVO

Enterprise ID : .1.3.6.1.4.1.119.2.2.4.4.100.2

Generic ID : (6) EnterpriseSpecific

Specific ID : 1 - 3

ESMPRO has 3 kind of traps.

You must define policy rule

respectively.


Define rule Actions Message in OVO

Severity : select “Normal” for Specific ID 1select “Minor” for Specific ID 2select “Major” for Specific ID 3

Message Text : Use $ notation to refer to trap variables.

Press “OK”until you see the policy editor main

window.(next page)


Define rule respectively


ESMPRO traps in the OVO active messages window

File systemalert detectedby ESMPRO

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Server Management Software ComparisonIn-Band management

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NECESMPRO Ver.5

ComparisonHP

System Insight Manager

Remote Monitoring (HW State, Log, etc.) Yes = Yes

Remote Power Control Yes = Yes

Alert Monitoring Yes = Yes

Retrieve H/W Configuration and OS Information

Yes = Yes

Command Line I/F, Script I/F Yes = Yes

Security (SSL, SSH) Yes = Yes

Web Server Yes = Yes

Task Scheduling Yes = Yes

Scheduled Power Control w/o UPS Yes > No

Automated BIOS/BMC Update,Version Control

Yes (ExpressUpdate) = Yes

Integrated RAID Management Yes > Yes (monitor only)

Virtual LCD Yes > No

Power Consumption Monitoring Yes > Yes (Option License)

Power Capping Control Yes > Yes (Option License)

Directory Service (LDAP) No < Yes

VM Management No (Support with SSC) < Yes (Option License)

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Management Controller ComparisonOut-of-Band management

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NECEXPRESSSCOPE Engine2

ComparisonHP

iLO2

Remote Monitoring (HW State, Log, etc.) Yes = Yes

Remote Power Control Yes = Yes

Send Alert (SNMP, E-Mail) Yes > Yes (SNMP only)

Retrieve H/W Configuration Yes = Yes

Monitor HDD failure (agent-less) Yes > No

Remote KVM Yes (java-base) < Yes (java-base, ActiveX)

Remote Media Yes = Yes

Security (SSL, SSH) Yes = Yes

Web Server Yes = Yes

Command Line I/F (SMASH CLP) Yes = Yes

Remote F/W update Yes (require tftp server) < Yes

Virtual LCD Yes > No

Power Consumption Monitoring Yes (current value only) < Yes

Power Capping Control Yes = Yes

Directory Service (LDAP) No < Yes


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ESMPRO operations can be also done through command line

C:\>dscli groupPowerOn GroupName(Power ON every servers belonging tothe same group)

Power ON Power ON

Power ON

CLI examples

Power Control (Group DC-ON) - dscli groupPowerOn GroupName - dscli powerOff ServerName

Status Check (Status of server status LED) 　 - dscli getStatusLamp ServerName [sample results] GREEN_ON (LED is green) AMBER_BLINK (Amber blinking)


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Express R120a-1with LSI Raid

Teaming

Windows 2008R2Enterprise

ESMPRO Manager 5.x

192.168.2..202

192.168.6.210

Management port

Windows 2008

EMPRO agent 4.52

Universal Raid Utility

Managementstation

Lan Internet

Lan ports

Paris Barcelona

RDP sessionon management station running ESMPRO Manager

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