1 Overview

This chapter describes the following:

•”About This Product” on page 1

•”Suggested Topics for First-Time Users” on page 4

•”Product Components” on page 4

•”About the User Interface on the SE Home Page” on page 6

•”Installing the Java Plug-in” on page 11

•”Installing the Software Security Certificate” on page 12

•”Stopping the Service for the Management Server” on page 14

About This Product

IMPORTANT: If you access HP Systems Insight Manager through HTTP over SSL (HTTPS), you must provide the full DNS name for the host to be able to access HP Storage Essentials. For example, you could access HP Systems Insight Manager by using https://mycomputer.domainname.com:50000, but you could not use https://mycomputer:50000. For non-secure connections (HTTP), the full DNS name does not need to be provided.

HP Storage Essentials is a family of open, standards-built SAN management and storage resource management (SRM) solutions that enable you to visualize, monitor, report on, provision, and manage your heterogeneous storage environment with unprecedented simplicity and speed.

HP Storage Essentials is a family of open, standards-built SAN management and storage resource management (SRM) solutions that enable you to visualize, monitor, report on, provision, and manage your heterogeneous storage environment with unprecedented simplicity and speed.

Storage Essentials is integrated throughout HP Systems Insight Manager. You can determine where Storage Essentials begins by looking at the menus. Whenever a menu item displays “Storage Essentials,” it is a gateway into Storage Essentials. For example, assume you selected Tasks & Logs > View Storage Essentials Logs. You have selected to view the logs for Discovery Data Collection in Storage Essentials, not in HP Systems Insight Manager. When you select Tools >

Storage Essentials 5.00.01 User Guide

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