HP Servicecontrol Manager Overview

SCM is an easy-to-use, multi-system management solution with a Web-enabled interface and a command line interface. SCM delivers multi-system access to all key system administration tools for fault monitoring, configuration, and workload management. Administrators with multiple HP systems running primarily HP-UX or Linux benefit the most from using SCM.

SCM provides management of more systems with increased control and decreased errors throughout the IT environment. The biggest advantage is SCM's synergistic integration of multiple administrative tasks providing a significant improvement in productivity for virtually all multi-system configurations. In fact, sites with multiple HP servers with similar or the same configurations experience as much as a 5x improvement in system administration productivity when they implement SCM. SCM provides system administrators with:

Increased productivity through a single point of administration for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows manageability tools (Windows manageability provided through launching HP Proliant Insight Manager7)
Increased efficiency through multi-system management capabilities such as group operations and role-based management
Improved security through roles-based management, authentication and encryption
Ensured accountability through audit logging of changes across the IT environment
Expanded flexibility through the use of customized scripts and commands executed across multiple systems simultaneously

Features	Benefits
Choice of management interfaces- Web-enabled graphical user interface or command line interface	Provides options for remote management that span an intuitive graphical user interface to a command line interface for fast, low-bandwidth operations.
Group operations- simultaneously launch management tasks across multiple servers	Increases efficiencies, especially in environments with large server farms that have similar configurations.
Role-based management- assign administrators access to certain manageability tools for specific managed nodes or node groups	Reduces error-caused downtime by allowing the delegation of administrative tasks without a proliferation of root privileges.
Audit logging- log task information including: 1) the target nodes; 2) the result of the action; 3) the tool name used to perform task; 4) the user name who performed the task	Ensures accountability for actions and tracks changes across the IT environment.
Security- secure authentication between the managed node and the central management server (CMS), as well as between the CMS and the network client	Increases confidence knowing that the transactions between the network client, the CMS, and the managed nodes are all authenticated and encrypted.
Customized scripts and commands- easily customize frequently used scripts and commands	Provides the ability to add current scripts and commands into SCM and execute them across multiple systems simultaneously.
Access to HP-UX, Linux, and Windows management tools- launch HP-UX, Linux, and Windows (via user-defined launch of HP Insight Manager7) management tools from the SCM CMS	Provides a single point of control for HP-UX and Linux manageability tools. HP Insight Manager7, which can also be integrated into SCM, provides Windows monitoring and device management.

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