I just deployed the HP Blade System Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (what a mouth full!). It was relatively easy. I’m assuming you’ve already added the Proliant Server management pack.
- Get the IP address of each of the blade chassis’ you have.
- Set up a "user" account for OpsMgr and note the password.
- Configure SNMP alerts to your OpsMgr server and set up a read string for the OpsMgr Server.
- Download and install the exe from HP.
- Start the BladeSystem monitor and add your chassis in there using your chassis IP address and OpsMgr user account/password.
- Add the blade management pack from the HP Blade Management Pack folder in Program Files.
- Discover a network device using the SNMP read string and the chassis IP address.
- Deploy agents to your blade servers.
Wait a while, maybe 10-15 minutes.
Come back and you’ll find lots of newly discovered objects and a really cool BladeSystem diagram that drills down to all of the components.