Key Features and Benefits
HP Insight Diagnostics simplifies the process of effectively identifying, diagnosing, and isolating hardware issues on your server.
In addition to robust management tools, service tools can be invaluable in quickly resolving server problems. In order to streamline the service process and resolve problems quickly, it is necessary to have the right information available at the time that a service call is placed. Insight Diagnostics helps provide higher server availability through the following features:
- Online installation and operation - Not necessary to take the server offline or reboot the server in order to use Insight Diagnostics.
- Comprehensive configuration capture - Gathers detailed hardware and operating system configuration information under a single tool.
- 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.
- Integrated Management Log (IML) - Insight Diagnostics can manage the server Integrated Management Log (on supported systems).
- Remote Capability - Allows remote access to a server through a web browser interface.
- Diagnose - Used for diagnosing of Hard drives attached to HP Smart Array Controller and Power supplies that are deemed diagnosable.
This combination of features simplifies the service process and minimizes downtime experienced by a server.
Typical uses of Insight Diagnostics are:
- Documenting server configurations for upgrade planning, standardization, inventory tracking, disaster recovery, and maintenance
- Comparing historical configurations on the same server or another (baseline) server
- Saving configuration information for in-depth troubleshooting
- Diagnosing apparent hardware failures
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