HP ProLiant Hardware Inventory Tool for Configuration Manager 2007 (howto)
Yesterday , I ran into a customer who wanted me to extend there Hardware inventory with there Compaq and HP Server equipment such as ILO Serial number , physical Memory slots , etc. Instead of making me sweating , I found the HP ProLiant Hardware Inventory Tool for Configuration Manager 2007 on the HP website : http://www.hp.com/support
The HP ProLiant Hardware Inventory Tool for Configuration Manager 2007 uses the HP Insight Management Agents to obtain HP-specific hardware information from System Center Configuration Manager 2007 client servers and adds this information to the database of the site server. The inventory tool runs on each specified client, creating a series of intermediate .MIF text files, which contains the information about specific client servers. The Configuration Manager Hardware Inventory Agent processes these files and sends them to the site server to update the appropriate database.
1. Go to the downloaded files and run the “HPProLiantHwInvToolForConfigMgr01_0.exe”
This will implement certain default collections , packages and advertisments. You could modify those or start from scratch like I did .
2. Do not forget to activate your HW inventory and to select : “Collect _NOIDMIF Files” .
The Inventory Tool generates the .MIF files on each node. The .MIF files are not automatically populated to the site server database.To ensure that the .MIF files are collected, you must enable the NOIDMIF files option in the Hardware Inventory Client Agent Properties as shown in the picture below :
3. Create your package or modify the default created one . Look at the default created program and modify according the screenshots below :
On the General Tab :
On the Environment Tab : “When ether or not a user is logged in”
On the Advanced Tab : “Suppress program notifications”
4. Create your collection where you going to target your program to.
Create a dynamic membership based on the following criteria :
Computer System Model lowercase is like %proliant%
5. Create your advertisment and on the shedule tab , rerun on weekly basis on your previous created target collection .
The inventory tool obtains the information and then displays it in the Configuration Manager Resource Explorer for the client server. In the example below you will see that there are field added , such like HP …
In this example , the HP Prolaint Software and Firmware :
In this example , the HP smart array Physical Drive :
Hope it Helps ,
Kenny Buntinx