HP System Insight

HP Insight Diagnostics is a complete set of Intelligent Provisioning provided by HP through a variety of systematic and hardware tests, both offline and online. This software performs heavy tests on components such as processors, RAMs, hard drives, etc. in order to thoroughly examine the system. The program collects system configuration information and the ability to diagnose the health of HP server components using a variety of tests. In this article, we are going to examine the online testing of parts.

The HP Insight Diagnostics application simplifies the process of identifying the factors that cause a system problem. This application makes it possible to detect and separate these factors from hardware issues. Your access to this section allows you to take advantage of the following key benefits and features:

• Ability to check the existing system configuration with different levels
• Ability to test and diagnose hardware defects in the system
• Ability to document system settings for standardization, crash recovery, server maintenance
• Send configuration information to another location for deeper analysis
• Integrated Management Log Management – IML

During the offline review and testing of the software, the operating system installed by the user is taken out of the circuit, so the software information is not reported by the system and it is enough to access it through the Intelligent Provisioning environment. This option can be used online using web-based applications. To activate various functions on the HP System Insight, specific HP License types would be required.

Troubleshoot HP servers

HP System Insight Diagnostics (license) is a very efficient way to troubleshoot HP servers. Whenever a network administrator encounters a problem with the system, they can easily check and analyze the performance of HP servers. Just by doing the following steps in order:

• Check the health of the server and the status of the LEDs located on the front panel of the device
• Use the HP System Insight Diagnostics Survey Utility to verify server configuration components and firmware versions
• Use the offline test version of HP Insight Diagnostics to help authenticate server hardware components
• Use IML to detect errors. (if the server supports this option)

Minimum configuration required for HP System Insight

For a smooth, flawless and problem-free implementation of this feature in different operating systems, a system with the following minimum configuration is required.

HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition for Windows

• HP Advanced System Management Driver
• HP System Management Homepage
• HP Server Management Application and Agents
• Memory: 512 MB
• Graphics controller support: 1024×768

HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition for Linux

• HP System Management Homepage
• HP Server Management Application and Agents
• Memory: 512 MB

Graphics controller support: 1024×768

HP Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition

• System support for a bootable CD-ROM or HP Intelligent Provisioning installed in system
• Memory: 512 MB
• Graphics controller support: 1024×768

Note that if this software and its license are installed on a system with less than 1 GB of RAM, it is possible that some tests may not run correctly or may not run at all. You should also keep in mind that this amount of RAM is responsible for offline tests with a duration of up to 12 hours, and for more testing time, more RAM is needed.

Also note that you must use the appropriate methods for your operating system environment to perform the HP System Insight software installation process. Before installing HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition, note that HP’s suggestion is that if you have HP Survey Utility installed on your system, you need to uninstall it.

How to install the online version of HP Insight Diagnostics for Windows:

Installation via Smart Component:

• Enter the Windows environment through Administrator access.
• Download the Smart Component executable file.
• Temporarily copy the executable file to a folder on the server.
• Run the Smart Component executable file to begin installing the HP Diagnostics Interactive application.
• During the installation process, Insight Diagnostic files are copied to the hp/hpdiags path, usually on the same drive as Windows installed on.

How to install the online version of HP Insight Diagnostics for Linux:

Installation via Linux RPM Package Manager (RPM):

HP Insight Diagnostics is available for Linux but using the Linux RPM Utility. The following features are available in the RPM tool:

• Install
• Query
• Refresh
• Uninstall

Follow the steps below to install HP Insight Diagnostics for your Linux RPM file:

• First download the HP Insight Diagnostics RPM file. This file is both in the Service Pack Proliant (SPP) Image and can be accessed via the HP link.
• In the next step, enter the desired server as root.
• Now run pm -Uvh command. For example rpm -Uvh hpdiags-8.6.0-12.linux.x86_64.rpm
• To run the online version of HP Insight Diagnostics for Linux from the HP System Management homepage, follow these steps:
• Open your browser and Enter https: // localhost: 2381 in the address bar.
• Press the Enter key to bring up the System Management Homepage.
• Click on the Webapps option.
• Click on HP Insight Diagnostics in the Other Agent section.