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Overview

HP Insight Control Environment for Linux (ICE-Linux) provides comprehensive imaging & deployment, monitoring, and management for Linux-based ProLiant server platforms. Built on the industry-leading HP Systems Insight Manager platform, this solution integrates open source technology with experience leveraged from HP's Linux products in HP ICLE and HP XC Clusters, while providing paths to the future with developing management technologies.

Why use HP Insight Control Environment for Linux?
  • Integrated Linux management on industry-standard ProLiant servers
  • Architected to manage expanding Linux multi-server ProLiant environments to meet increasing issues of productivity, utilization, and control
  • Leverage the best management technologies (open source & HP proprietary) from an established HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) platform
  • Use established open source technologies (Nagios & others) for extensible health and performance monitoring
  • Enable Linux users in Enterprise computing and Departmental clustering
  • Globally supported by HP
  • HP Insight Control Environment for Linux (ICE-Linux) brings the full expertise of HP's management investments from UNIX & Windows to the Linux environment, while providing flexibility to meet the variety of usual management tasks.



    What's new

    HP Insight Control Environment for Linux (ICE-Linux) provides comprehensive imaging & deployment, monitoring, and management for Linux-based ProLiant server platforms. From bare metal system discovery through health and performance monitoring, this solution enables maximum server control for productively managing Linux multi-server environments.

    Control
    • Role-based access and security tied to the HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) platform for consistency and reliability
    • Bare metal system discovery and Linux deployment, coupled with system image capture and deployment, to get systems up and running quickly
    • Server power control to manage industry-standard servers even in remote locations
    • Flexible and extensible monitoring for notifications, alerts, events, histories, graphs, and reporting - to know what is really happening without guessing

    Flexibility
    • Use Blade servers, Rack servers, or Virtual Connect
    • Choose HP-supported Linux distributions (RHEL, SLES) or choose your own Linux solution using HP-enabled capabilities.
    • Manage clusters to empower your team, workgroup, or department

    Savings
    • Industry-standard ProLiant servers leverage the best management technologies from open source and HP
    • Build your future management infrastructure by incorporating the best innovations in management technologies into the HP SIM platform as they become available
    • Measure and regulate power using HP Insight Power Manager to assure efficient use of resources
    • Convenient task chains included for common management and deployment tasks

    Service & Support
    • First year of 24x7 Software Technical Support and Update Services included with every ICE-Linux purchase
    • Rapid access to trained support staff that can help quickly isolate and troubleshoot software installation and configuration issues
    • Globally supported by Hewlett-Packard

    Ideal environment

    Ideal for...

    Organizations that are Linux-centric and are using a variety of open source tools and utilities to manage an increasingly complex and growing industry-standard server environment.
    • Discover and provision your systems with a coordinated underlying platform, with the information stored in either Oracle or PostgresSQL
    • Deploy and image your servers using a one-to-many model for productivity
    • Monitor your systems, or network, or services -- to take the guesswork out of the status and availability of your infrastructure
    • Manage your systems using a platform of integrated technologies which allows new technology innovations to be added in the future

    Teams, workgroups, and departments that want to flexibly deploy moderate-size clusters to enhance their output.
    • Insight Control Environment for Linux (ICE-Linux) provides good performance for managing and monitoring clusters of servers of moderate size (60 nodes typical)
    • Distributed Linux management of server groups allows for cloning of user-created images and for the remote deployment of operating systems and images

    Medium-sized organizations with growing Linux server environments who need integrated management processes and tools for system management productivity.
    • ICE-Linux provides a robust set of core system management capabilities to control the infrastructure -- including abilities to discover, deploy, image, monitor, and remotely manage industry-standard servers
    • Flexibly configure the solution to observe and report the attributes of highest concern
    • Add newer technologies to the stable management platform over time to assure growth paths to your IT future

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