Monitored server hardware

Monitored servers are managed outside of HPE OneView and use a free license called HPE OneView Standard. Monitoring allows you to monitor power, cooling, hardware health, and utilization. You can power on and off the server, iLO remote console, and review inventory. You can also get email notification, SNMP trap forwarding, and optional 1 year 9x5 support.

The monitoring feature is available for all G6 and later ProLiant servers with iLO 2, iLO 3, iLO 4, or iLO 5. If a server is being monitored by HPE OneView, you can still manage the enclosures, server profiles, and Virtual Connect infrastructure through VCM or VCEM. You cannot manage server profiles for monitored server hardware in HPE OneView. HPE OneView can configure the servers’ iLO to send their sysLogs to a remote destination. See the HPE OneView API Reference documentation of the PATCH operation on /rest/serverhardware for additional details about how to perform a sysLog operation.

HPE OneView monitors the server hardware for inventory and hardware status only. Server blades that are in a monitored enclosure are added as monitored. You can add rack servers or server blades to inventory and monitor the hardware. Inventory and monitoring is useful when you have servers that have already been deployed.

For HPE Superdome Flex Server, server chassis that are in a rack manager are added as monitored if the firmware installed on the rack manager does not support managed mode features.