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/