About this guide

This guide provides information about:

•Discovering elements

•Managing Security

•Configuring HP

•Monitoring and managing elements

•Provisioning elements

•Viewing events from elements

•Viewing reports about elements

•Viewing performance, capacity and chargeback information

•Troubleshooting HP

Intended audience

This guide is intended for:

•Network Engineers

•Administrators

•Any one that needs to monitor and/or manage their file servers

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for using this product include:

•Networking

•Storage Area Networks (SANs)

•The Common Information Model (CIM)

Related documentation

In addition to this guide, please refer to other documents for this product:

•Online help for HP Storage Essentials 5.00.01

•HP Storage Essentials 5.00.01 Installation Guide

•HP Storage Essentials 5.00.01 Application Guide

•HP Storage Essentials 5.00.01 CLI Guide

•HP Storage Essentials 5.00.01 for File Servers Guide

These and other HP documents can be found on the HP web site: http://www.hp.com/support/