HP Insight Diagnostics enables you to simplify the process of effectively identifying, diagnosing, and isolating hardware issues on your server.
With this robust management tool, the service tools quickly resolve the server problems. To streamline the service process and resolve problems quickly, it is necessary to have the right information available at the time when a service call is placed. Insight Diagnostics provides higher server availability through the following features:
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Online installation and operation— In an online environment, it is not necessary to take the server offline or reboot the server in order to use Insight Diagnostics.
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Comprehensive configuration capture— Gathers detailed hardware and operating system configuration information under a single tool.
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Automatic configuration audit trail—Automatically maintains a configuration history for the server. By storing multiple configuration snapshots and highlighting changes and differences, the utility can provide a detailed record of the server history.
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Integrated Management Log (IML)— Insight Diagnostics can manage the server Integrated Management Log (on supported systems).
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Remote Capability—Allows remote access to a server through a web browser interface.
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Diagnose—Used for diagnosing of hard drives attached to HP Smart Array Controller and Power supplies that are deemed diagnosable.
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Hardware Testing—Available in Offline Edition, hardware testing provides for testing many hardware components and logging failures and test results.
This combination of features simplifies the service process and minimizes the downtime of server.
Typical uses of Insight Diagnostics are:
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Documenting server configurations for upgrade planning, standardization, inventory tracking, disaster recovery, and maintenance
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Comparing historical configurations on the same server or another (baseline) server
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Saving configuration information for in-depth troubleshooting
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Diagnosing apparent hardware failures
For more information, see the Read me at c:\hp\hpdiags\readme.txt
on windows and /opt/hp/hpdiags/readme.txt
on Linux and Solaris.