Description
This five-day course provides the necessary foundation to manage the data center servers and application environment using HP Server Automation (SA) 10. The course covers the key components of SA and their functionality.
Through lecture and hands-on practice, you develop the skills necessary to successfully provision servers, manage physical and virtual environments, as well as manage software, packages, patches, and application configurations using SA. You will also learn how to enforce compliance, and audit and report on server activities through SA.
The course consists of focused, task-oriented lectures, text, and a series of detailed hands-on labs to teach the course material to the student. The hands-on labs use version 10.0 of the software.
Delegates will learn how to
- Describe the Server Automation (SA) core architecture and key components of SA
- Integrate unmanaged servers into the SA managed environment and discover server information through SA
- Use the Operation System (OS) Provisioning feature of SA to automate the installation of OS onto servers
- Provision virtual servers and manage their server lifecycle through SA
- Create static and dynamic device groups to manage multiple servers as groups
- Manage packages as part of the software management feature in SA
- Use a policy-based management methodology to provision software and manage software updates
- Describe and use Application Deployment Manager (ADM) to manage an application lifecycle using SA
- Use the Application Configuration feature of SA to manage the values in configuration files on managed servers
- Manage patches on various OS platforms using a patch policy or software policy
- Use the Audit and Remediation feature of SA to ensure servers and applications are compliant with defined best practices or corporate policies
- Use the Compliance feature of SA to discover out-of-compliance servers in the managed environment and ensure that they are in compliance with corporate policies
- Use the Global Shell and Global File System (OGFS) features to explore and manage servers in an SA environment
- Create, manage, and execute scripts I SA to manage servers or server groups
Outline
Module 1: Course Overview and Introduction to HP Server Automation
Module 2: Exploring the Architecture and Interfaces
Module 3: Agent Functionality and Server Integration
Module 4: Provisioning Operating Systems (OS) Using OS Build Plans (OSBPs)
Module 5: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Less or Static IP Provisioning
Module 6: Managing Virtualization
Module 7: Exploring Device Groups
Module 8: Exploring Device Groups with Search Results
Module 9: Managing Packages
Module 10: Software Management
Module 11: Working with Application Deployment Manager (ADM)
Module 12: Application Configuration Management
Module 13: Managing Patches
Module 14: Working with Audits, Snapshots, and Remediation
Module 15: Enforcing Compliance
Module 16: Exploring Servers Using the Global Shell and Global File System
Module 17: Scripting with SA
Module 18: Exploring Reports in SA
Prerequisites
Knowledge of networking terms and concepts
Knowledge of different operating system environments