HPE OneView for VMs 5.0 Help

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HPE OneView Help
- Where to find HPE OneView documentation
- Enable off-appliance browsing of UI help
Navigating the appliance user interface
- About the graphical user interface
- About the Activity sidebar
- Activity sidebar details
- Expand or collapse the Activity sidebar
- Audit tracking
- Banner and main menu
- Browsers
  - Browser best practices for a secure environment
  - Commonly used browser features and settings
  - Set the browser for US or metric units of measurement
- Button functions
- Filters sidebar
- Help sidebar
  - Appliance status screens
  - View the End-User License agreement
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- Icon descriptions
  - Status and severity icons
  - User control icons
  - Informational icons
- Labels screen details
  - About labels
- Map view screen details
- Notifications area
- Log out of the appliance
- Organizing resources into groups by assigning labels
  - Adding a new label to a resource
  - Adding an existing label to a resource
  - Removing a label from a resource
  - Searching for resources by label
  - View resources by label
- Performing an action on multiple resources
- Search help topics
  - Help search features and limitations.
- Search resources
  - Clear the Smart Search box
- View resources according to their health status
  - Reset the health status view
What can I do with HPE OneView?
- Manage security and user accounts
- Manage and monitor server hardware, server profiles, and server profile templates
- Manage and monitor enclosures, enclosure groups, logical enclosures, and firmware
- Manage and monitor hypervisor profiles, hypervisor cluster profiles, and hypervisor manager
- Manage networks and connectivity
- Manage facilities: power, data centers, racks
- Manage storage
- Monitor the health of the environment
- Manage the appliance
Quick Start: Initial configuration of HPE OneView
- Initially configure resources and HPE OneView
  - Configuring the appliance
  - Configuring resources
- About defining physical dimensions and power systems
- Understanding the impact of future configuration changes
  - Configuration changes that require or result in resource outages
  - Configuration changes that might require changes to multiple resources
    - Adding a network
    - Adding an enclosure
Quick Start: Add a network and associate it with an existing server
- Adding a network and associating it with an existing server
Quick Start: Configuring SAN storage
Managing the appliance
- About the appliance maintenance console
  - About disabling IPv4
- How the appliance handles an unexpected shutdown
Activity
- About the Activity display
- About activities
- About monitoring health
- Activity states
- Activity statuses
- Activity types: alerts and tasks
  - About alerts
  - About tasks
- Service alerts
- View an activity
- Filter activities
- Add a note to an alert
- Assign an owner to an alert
- Clear an activity
- Restore a cleared activity to the active state
Dashboard
- About the Dashboard
- Add a dashboard panel
  - Adding a pre-defined dashboard panel
  - Adding a custom dashboard panel
- Delete a custom dashboard panel
- Edit a custom dashboard panel
- Filter the view of a resource based on its status on the Dashboard
- Move a dashboard panel
- Reset the dashboard
- Viewing the firmware activation schedule
Data Centers
- About data centers
- Add a data center
- Edit a data center
  - Changing data center properties
  - Changing the layout of a data center
- Edit remote support settings
- Manipulate the view of the data center visualization
- Remove a data center from the appliance
- View the peak temperature of racks in a data center
Enclosures
- About enclosures
  - About enclosure configuration options
  - Connectivity and synchronization with HPE OneView
  - Graphic representation of enclosures
  - Remote support at the enclosure
- About managed, monitored, and migrated enclosures
- About managed c7000 enclosures
  - Effects of managing a c7000 enclosure
  - Before adding an enclosure for management
  - Prerequisites for bringing a c7000 enclosure into HPE OneView
  - Firmware options when adding enclosures for management
- About monitored enclosures
  - About the monitored mode acknowledgment
- About migrating c7000 enclosures managed by other management systems
  - Best practices for migrating an enclosure from VCM into HPE OneView
  - Before migrating c7000 enclosures
    - About c7000 migration and firmware
    - About VCM settings that will not be migrated
  - About migrating partially stacked domains
  - About offline or in-service migration
  - About blocking issues during migration
  - About migration acknowledgments
- About unmanaged and unsupported c7000 enclosures
- Quick Start: Add a c7000 enclosure with a single logical interconnect group and connect its server blades to networks
  - Scenario 1: Adding an enclosure to manage to an existing enclosure group
  - Scenario 2: Defining network connectivity before adding a c7000 enclosure to manage
  - Scenario 3: Defining network connectivity as you add the enclosure to manage
- Quick Start: Add a c7000 enclosure with multiple logical interconnect groups and connect its server hardware to networks
- Quick Start: Configure a c7000 enclosure and server blade for direct attach to an HPE 3PAR Storage System
  - Configuring a c7000 enclosure and server blade for direct attach to an HPE 3PAR Storage System
- Add an enclosure
- Adding a c7000 enclosure to manage its contents
- Add server hardware to managed enclosures
  - Checklist: connecting a server to a data center network
- Add an enclosure to monitor the hardware
- Bring an unmanaged enclosure under management
- Claim a c7000 enclosure currently being managed by another management system
- Collect remote support data for enclosures
- Enable remote support on an enclosure
- Forcibly add an enclosure currently monitored by another management system
- Forcibly remove an enclosure if a remove action fails
- Move a monitored enclosure to managed status
- Prepare a VCEM enclosure for migration into HPE OneView
- Migrate a c7000 enclosure currently managed by VCM
  - Migrating an enclosure managed by VCM
  - Perform post-migration tasks
  - Resolve compatibility issues
- Reapply the enclosure configuration
- Refresh the enclosure to re-synchronize it with HPE OneView
- Remove a server from an existing enclosure
- Remove an enclosure from HPE OneView
Enclosure Groups
- About enclosure groups
  - Enclosure groups and logical interconnect groups
- About enclosure configuration scripts
- Create an enclosure group
- Delete an enclosure group
- Edit an enclosure group
Fabrics
- About HPE Composable Cloud with ProLiant DL
- About HPE Composable Fabric Manager consistency checking
Firmware Bundles
- About firmware bundles
- About the firmware repository
  - About uploading and using hotfixes
  - About removing an SPP from a firmware repository
- About updating firmware
- Add a firmware bundle to the appliance firmware repository
- Create a custom SPP
- Cancel a hung firmware update task
- Configure the NIC settings in Onboard Administrator (OA)
- Downgrade firmware
- Remove a firmware bundle from the firmware bundle repository
- View the firmware repository
Firmware Compliance
- About the Firmware Compliance display
- About pending updates count and status
- Detailed view of firmware compliance
- Summary view of firmware compliance
- Download firmware compliance reports
- Filter firmware updates
- View firmware compliance
Hypervisor Cluster Profiles
- About hypervisor cluster profiles
- About vSAN enabled hypervisor clusters
- Add hypervisor cluster volume
- Add existing hypervisor to hypervisor cluster profile
- Add new hypervisors to hypervisor cluster profile
- Delete hypervisor cluster profile
- Edit hypervisor cluster profile
- Import hypervisor cluster profile
- Remove a hypervisor from a hypervisor cluster profile
- Remove hypervisor cluster volume
Hypervisor Managers
- About hypervisor managers
  - About management preferences
- Hypervisor manager user privileges
- Add hypervisor manager
- Edit hypervisor manager
- Remove hypervisor manager
Hypervisor Profiles
- About hypervisor profiles
  - About hypervisor profile consistency validation
- About hypervisor maintenance mode
- About powering off hypervisors
- Edit hypervisor profile
- Enter maintenance mode
- Exit maintenance mode
- Power hypervisor on or off
- Reset or cold boot a hypervisor
- Update from hypervisor cluster profile
Interconnects
- About interconnects
- Interconnects screen details
- Uplink and downlink port advanced statistics
- Add an interconnect
- Clear port counters
  - Clearing port counters
- Collect remote support data for interconnects
- Enable or disable uplink or downlink ports on an interconnect
  - Enabling or disabling uplink or downlink ports on an interconnect
- Enable remote support for an interconnect
- Reapply interconnect configuration
- Replace an interconnect
- Reset protection
- View data transfer statistics for uplink and downlink ports
  - Viewing data transfer statistics for uplink ports
  - Viewing data transfer statistics for uplink and downlink ports
Licensing
- About licensing
- View license status
- Add a license key to HPE OneView
- Apply a license to managed server hardware
Logical Enclosures
- About logical enclosures
  - About inconsistent logical enclosures
  - About updating firmware from a logical enclosure
- About orchestrated and parallel activation
- Logical Enclosures screen details
- Bring an unmanaged enclosure with invalid firmware under management
- Configure an enclosure with an OA configuration script
- Create a logical enclosure
- Delete a logical enclosure
- Edit a logical enclosure
- Reapply the logical enclosure configuration
- Update the logical enclosure configuration from the enclosure group
- Update firmware from a logical enclosure
- Create a logical enclosure support dump file
Logical interconnects
- About logical interconnects
  - About internal networks
  - About stacking links and stacking health
  - About trunking for the HPE Virtual Connect FC Module
  - About uplink sets
  - Creating or deleting a logical interconnect
- About active/active and active/standby configurations
  - About active/standby configurations
  - About active/active configurations
    - Requirements for an active/active configuration
    - Sample active/active configuration for single logical interconnect group
- About consistency checking in logical interconnect configurations
- About firmware associated with a logical interconnect
  - About updating firmware for logical interconnects
    - About activating firmware options
  - About updating firmware for a single interconnect
- About Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) address mode
- About loop protection
- About pause flood protection
- About port monitoring
  - Port ID indicator color definitions
  - Local port monitoring
- About SNMP settings
- About the Virtual Connect FlexFabric–20/40 F8 interconnect module
- About utilization sampling
- Logical Interconnects screen details
  - Logical Interconnect
  - General
  - Firmware
  - Internal Networks
  - Uplink Sets
  - Stacking Links
  - Interconnect settings
  - Utilization Sampling
  - SNMP
  - Quality of Service (QoS)
  - Edit Traffic Class
  - Create or edit uplink sets
    - Add or remove networks
    - Add or remove uplink ports
  - Add or edit SNMP Trap Destinations
  - Add or edit SNMP Access
  - Port Monitoring or Configure port monitoring
    - Additional port monitoring details
    - Downlink port for port monitoring details
  - MAC addresses
  - Update firmware
- Add an SNMP trap destination
- Add an uplink set
- Add or Edit a Private VLAN domain
- Configure a port to monitor network traffic
- Delete an uplink set
- Edit a logical interconnect
- Edit internal networks
- Edit uplink sets
- Manage redistribution login settings for uplink failover on a Fibre Channel network
- Manage SNMPv3 user settings
  - Add an SNMPv3 user
  - Edit an SNMPv3 user
  - Remove an SNMPv3 user
- Manage SNMP access for c7000 enclosures
  - Add access for an SNMP manager
  - Edit access for an SNMP manager
  - Remove access from an SNMP manager
- Manage SNMP trap destinations
  - Add an SNMP trap destination
  - Edit an SNMP trap destination
  - Remove an SNMP trap destination
- Manage the frequency of control messages through the LACP timer
- Reapply the logical interconnect configuration to its physical interconnects
- Supported SNMP Management Information Bases (MIBs)
- Update firmware for logical interconnects within enclosures
  - Stage and activate firmware for update from logical interconnect
  - Stage firmware for later activation for update from logical interconnect
  - Activate the firmware for update from logical interconnect
  - Update the firmware for Virtual Connect interconnects configured for Fibre Channel networks
- Update the logical interconnect configuration from the logical interconnect group
- View and download the MAC address table
  - Viewing MAC addresses on a logical interconnect
- View the general configuration of a logical interconnect
Logical Interconnect Groups
- About logical interconnect groups
- About Quality of Service for network traffic
- Logical Interconnect Groups screen details
- Create a logical interconnect group
- Edit a logical interconnect group
  - Configuring trunking for HPE Virtual Connect 16Gb 24-Port FC Module after an upgrade or with existing configurations
  - Configuring trunking for the HPE Virtual Connect 16Gb 24-Port FC Module with a new configuration
- Delete a logical interconnect group
- Disable trunking configuration
- Copy a logical interconnect group
- Enable or disable Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) tagging
  - Enabling LLDP tagging when creating a logical interconnect group
  - Enabling or disabling LLDP tagging on an existing logical interconnect group or logical interconnect
- Enable or disable enhanced type-length-value (TLV) settings
  - Enabling enhanced TLV settings when creating a logical interconnect group
  - Enabling or disabling enhanced TLV settings on an existing logical interconnect group or logical interconnect
Logical Switches
- About logical switches
- Create a logical switch
- Change logical switch operational mode
  - Changing logical switch operational mode from monitored to managed
  - Changing logical switch operational mode from managed to monitored
- Delete a logical switch
  - Deleting a logical switch
- Edit a logical switch
- Reapplying the logical switch configuration to its physical switches
- Refresh a logical switch
  - Refresh a logical switch
- Update a logical switch from the logical switch group
  - Updating a logical switch from the logical switch group
Logical Switch Groups
- About logical switch groups
- Logical Switch Groups screen details
- Create a logical switch group
- Delete a logical switch group
- Edit a logical switch group
Networks
- About networks
- About Ethernet networks
- About Fibre Channel networks
- About Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks
- Data center switch port requirements
- Quick Start: Add an active/active network configuration for single or multiple logical interconnect groups
  - Adding an active/active network configuration for single or multiple logical interconnect groups
- Quick Start: Migrate from an active/standby to an active/active configuration
  - Migrating from an active/standby to an active/active configuration
- Add a dedicated network for untagged traffic
- Add a tunnel network
- Associate a network with a managed SAN
- Create networks
- Connect servers directly to a storage system
  - Connect servers directly to a storage system in an existing environment
- Delete a network
- Edit network configuration settings
Network Sets
- About network sets
- Network Sets screen details
- Create a network set
- Delete a network set
- Edit a network set
Power Delivery Devices
- About power delivery devices
- Power Delivery Devices screen details
- Add a power connection
- Add a power delivery device
- Add an iPDU currently being managed by another management system
- Edit the properties of a power delivery device
- Filter power delivery devices
- Power down a power delivery device
- Power on or off the locator light for a power delivery device
- Remove a power delivery device
- Resolve connectivity issues between an iPDU and the appliance
- View last 5 minutes of power consumption for an iPDU
- View last 24 hours of power consumption for an iPDU
Rack Managers
- About rack managers
- About rack manager states
- About rack manager chassis
- About Rack Manager Firmware view
- About Superdome Flex firmware bundle
- About Superdome Flex firmware update configuration options
- Rack managers screen details
- Add a rack manager
- Enable remote support for a rack manager
- Update Superdome Flex firmware from a rack manager
Racks
- About racks
  - Change the name of a rack
- Racks screen details
- Add a rack
- Edit the properties of a rack
- Change the layout of devices in a rack
- Remove a rack from management
Reports
- About reports
- View and save a report
SAN Managers
- About SAN managers
- SAN Managers screen details
  - General
  - Add or Edit a SAN manager screen details
    - HPE or Cisco SAN manager
    - Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) SAN manager
- Add a SAN manager
- Configure a Brocade switch for management using FOS API
- Create a Brocade switch FOS SAN manager
- Edit a SAN manager
- Migrate Brocade SAN management from BNA to FOS REST
- Refresh a SAN manager
- Remove a SAN manager
SANs
- About SANs
  - About SAN zoning
- SANs screen details
- Associate a SAN with a network
- Download SAN endpoints table
- Edit a SAN
- Generate an Unexpected Zoning Report
- Refresh a SAN
- Turn automated zoning on or off for a SAN
Server Hardware
- About server hardware
  - About monitored server hardware
  - About one-time boot option
  - About unsupported server hardware
  - Connectivity and synchronization with the appliance
  - How the iLO is changed as a result of HPE OneView management
- About Server Hardware Inventory
- Prerequisites for bringing server hardware into an appliance
- Server Hardware states
- Server Hardware screen details
  - Hardware
  - Firmware
  - Ports
  - Partition details
  - Remote Support
  - Add server hardware
  - Edit server hardware
- Add a rack server
- Claim a server currently being managed by another management system
- Collect remote support data for servers
- Count amount of monitored server hardware
- Edit server hardware
- Enabling health monitoring for legacy servers
- Forcibly add a monitored server currently monitored by another management system
- Forcibly remove a server if a remove action fails
- Launch the iLO console to manage servers remotely
- Power on a server
- Power off a server
- Remove a rack server from management
- Replace the system board on a server that has a server profile assigned
- Reset a server
- Resolve connectivity issues between the appliance and server hardware
- Set one-time boot option
Server Hardware Types
- About server hardware types
- Server Hardware Types screen details
- Delete a server hardware type
- Edit server hardware type properties
Server Profiles
- About server profiles
  - About assigning a server profile to an empty device bay
  - About attaching SAN volumes to a server profile
  - About configuring iLO settings in a server profile
  - About editing a server profile
  - About migrating server profiles
  - About moving a server profile
  - About removing (unassigning) a server profile from hardware
  - About server profiles and local storage
  - About server profile connections
  - About server profile connections and changing server hardware types
  - About server profile consistency validation
  - About staging server profile changes when updating from a server profile template
  - Authorizations for assigning a server profile to a server or an enclosure bay
  - Capturing best-practice configurations
  - Server Profiles status icon definitions
  - What happens when a server associated with a profile is inserted into a bay
  - Working with server profiles to control remove-and-replace behavior
- When to use a server profile
- Server Profiles screen details
  - General
  - Firmware
  - Connections
  - Local storage
    - Integrated storage controller
    - Logical drive details
  - SAN Storage
  - Boot Settings
  - BIOS Settings
  - Advanced
  - Edit local storage
    - Edit integrated storage controller
    - Add Logical Drive
  - Add or edit SAN volume
  - Add SAN storage path
  - Edit SAN storage targets
- Quick Start: Configure server hardware MAC address binding for FCoE server profiles
- Add a logical drive for integrated storage
- Add a logical drive for mezzanine storage
- Add a SAN volume to a server profile
- Assign a server profile to another server
- Boot from a managed SAN volume
- Configure a server profile with user-specified identifiers
  - Create a server profile with user-specified identifiers for an Ethernet connection
  - Create a server profile with user-specified identifiers for a Fibre Channel connection
  - Create a server profile with a user-specified serial numbers
- Copy a server profile
- Create a server profile
- Create a server profile template from a server profile
- Delete or force delete a server profile
- Edit a server profile
- Migrate an existing server profile
- Schedule firmware updates from a server profile
- Reapply a server profile
- Reconstruct a deleted server profile
- Unassign a server profile from server hardware
- Update firmware with a server profile
- Update the profile configuration from the server profile template
Server Profile Templates
- About server profile templates
- Consistency checking in server profile templates
- When to use a server profile template
- Server Profile Templates screen details
- Configure volume attachments and add volumes to a server profile template
- Copy a server profile template
- Create a server profile from a template
- Create a server profile template
- Delete a server profile template
- Edit a server profile template
- Update firmware with a server profile template
Settings
- About Settings
- Settings screen details
Settings: Activity
- About the Activity panel
Settings: Addresses and Identifiers
- About ID pools
- About reserved VLAN pools
- Addresses and Identifiers settings screen details
- Add an autogenerated or custom ID pool for MAC addresses, WWNs, or serial numbers
  - Add an autogenerated ID pool for MAC addresses, WWNs, or serial numbers
  - Add a custom ID pool range for MAC addresses, WWNs, or serial numbers
- Add an IPv4 subnet and address range
- Add an IPv6 subnet and address range
- Edit an IPv4 subnet and address range
- Edit an IPv6 subnet and address range
- View a list of active ID pools and their properties
Settings: Appliance
- About the appliance
  - Best practices for managing a VM appliance
  - How the appliance handles unsupported hardware
- About appliance updates
- About the factory reset operation
- About the support dump file
  - About the support dump preview file
- Appliance panel screen details
- Create a support dump file
- Determine if a new appliance update file is available
- Reset the Appliance to the original factory settings
- Restart the Appliance from the UI
- Shut down the appliance from the UI
- Update the appliance
Settings: Appliance Networking
- About the appliance networking settings
- Networking panel screen details
  - Networking
  - Add or edit networking panel screen details
- Change the Appliance network settings
- Change the DNS server
- Change to a dual-stack protocol
- Configure the appliance network at first-time login
- Ping a host name or IP address
Settings: Backup
- About backing up the appliance
- About restoring the appliance
- Backup screen details
  - Edit Backup screen details
- Back up an appliance manually
- Best practices for backing up an appliance
- Best practices for restoring an appliance
- Configure automatic remote backups
- Disable automatic remote backups
- Restore an appliance from a backup file using the HPE OneView GUI
  - Scenario: Select a backup file and start the restoration immediately
  - Backup and restore the appliance
- Post-restoration tasks
- Sample backup script
- Sample restore script
- View backup file details
Settings: Diagnostics
- About the ciDebug log
- Download ciDebug log
- Configure remote access service to an HPE OneView appliance
- Securing customer-initiated service sessions to enable remote TLS service sessions to HPE OneView
- View ciDebug log
Settings: Licenses
- Licenses panel screen details
  - License graphs
  - Add license
- Add a license key to the Appliance
- View license details
Settings: Notifications
- About email notification of alert messages
- Notifications panel screen details
- Add an email recipient and filter
- Configure the Appliance for email notification of alerts
- Delete an email recipient and filter entry
- Edit an email recipient and filter entry
- Enable or disable an email recipient and filter
- Send a test message for email notification
Settings: Proxy
- About appliance proxy settings
- Proxy page screen details
- Configure the proxy settings
- Edit Proxy screen details
Settings: Remote support
- About remote support
- Remote support screen details
- Preparing for remote support registration
- Add channel partners
  - Adding service partners
  - Adding resellers or distributors
- Enable remote support
  - Enabling remote support
- Edit remote support
Settings: Repository
- About firmware repositories
- Repository screen details
  - General
  - Add or Edit Repository screen details
- Add an external repository
- Edit an external repository
- Remove an external repository
Settings: Scopes
- About scopes
- About permissions
- Scope-enabled resource categories
- Scopes screen details
- Assign a resource to a scope from a resource page
- Assign a resource to a scope from the Scopes page
- Change user permissions
- Create a scope
- Delete a scope
- Edit a scope
- Filter resources by scope
- Remove a resource from a scope
- View resources assigned to a scope
Settings: Security
- About security settings
- About audit log
  - About audit log forwarding
- About certificate validation
- About complex passwords
- About cryptography mode settings
- About directory service authentication
- About emergency local login
- About FIPS or CNSA compatibility report
- About trusting certificates
- Authentication for appliance access
- Best practices for maintaining a secure appliance
- Certificate management
- Controlling access for authorized users
  - Mapping of SSO roles for iLO and OA
  - Mapping appliance interactions with iLO, OA, and iPDU
  - Specifying user accounts and roles
- Controlling access to the appliance console
  - Restricting console access
- Creating a login session
- Files you can download from the appliance
- Managing certificates from a browser
  - Self-signed certificate
  - Use a certificate authority
- Modeling scope-based access control in HPE OneView
  - About scope-based access control
    - Scope-based access control authorization semantics
    - Scope-based access control facts
  - Scope-based access control implementation process
    - Design the authorization model
    - Configure the authorization model
  - Troubleshoot authorization failures
  - Scope-based access control example: Scenario overview
- Nonbrowser clients
- Ports required for HPE OneView
- Protecting credentials
- Security-hardened appliance
- Secure Shell access
- Two-factor Authentication
  - Certificate owner - Subject alternative name attributes
  - Certificate owner - Subject attributes
  - Directory domain
  - Requirements to validate the certificate
- Security panel screen details
  - Security/Edit Security screen details
  - Add certificates screen details
  - Add/Edit Directory configuration details
  - Add Directory Server screen details
  - Certificates screen details
  - Create an Appliance Certificate Signing Request screen details
  - Create Self-Signed Certificate screen details
  - Create compatibility report screen details
  - Client Login Certificate Configuration Screen Details
  - Edit cryptography mode screen details
  - Manage certificates screen details
  - View FIPS or CNSA compatibility report screen details
- Add a certificate
- Add an authentication directory service
- Allow local logins
- Create a CA-signed client certificate for SCMB
- Create an appliance certificate signing request
- Create an appliance self-signed certificate
- Create FIPS or CNSA compatibility report
- Delete compatibility report
- Disable complex passwords
- Disable emergency local login
- Disable global settings for certificate checking
- Disable local logins
- Download a self-signed certificate
- Download audit logs
- Edit a certificate
- Edit cryptography mode
- Edit the authentication directory service settings
- Enable complex passwords
- Enable cross-domain authentication using the global catalog
- Enable emergency local login
- Enable or disable authorized services access
- Enable or disable services access
- Enable or disable smart card only login
- Enable or disable SSH access
- Extract root CA certificate for Active Directory server certificates
- Import a self-signed certificate
- Import an appliance certificate
- Locate CRL distribution points
- Forward an audit log
- Obtain and install the public key
- Remove a certificate
- Remove an authentication directory service
- Set an authentication directory service as the default directory
- Trusting a certificate
- View the Certificate settings
- View the public key
Settings: Server Profile Consistency
- About server profile consistency
Settings: SNMP
- About appliance SNMP settings
- SNMP panel screen details
  - SNMP
  - Edit SNMP Settings
- Add or edit SNMPv3 users
- Add or edit an SNMP trap destination
- Remove an SNMP user or trap destination
- Set the SNMP read community string
Settings: Storage
- About storage settings
- Configure settings to require volume templates for volume creation
Settings: Time and Locale
- About NTP servers
- About time and locale settings
- Time and Locale panel screen details
  - Time and Locale panel screen details
  - Edit Time and Locale
- Set the appliance clock manually
- Synchronize the appliance clock with an NTP server
Smart Update Tools
- About Smart Update Tools
  - Smart Update Tools: Auto mode
  - Smart Update Tools: OnDemand mode
- Install Smart Update Tools
Storage Pools
- About storage pools
- Select a storage pool from a domain
- Refresh a storage pool
Storage Systems
- About storage systems
- About HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems
- About HPE Nimble storage systems
- About HPE StoreVirtual Storage systems
- Connectivity and synchronization with the appliance
- About port groups
- Storage Systems screen details
- Add a storage system
- Add a volume
- Edit a storage system
- Edit the credentials of a storage system
- Refresh a storage system
- Remove a storage system
Storage Volumes
- About volumes
- About snapshots
- Volumes screen details
- Add a volume from a storage system
- Create a snapshot from a volume
- Create a volume
- Create a volume from snapshot
- Delete a volume
- Edit a volume
- Increase the capacity of a volume
- Revert to a prior snapshot of an HPE 3PAR Storage system
Storage Volume Sets
- About volume sets
Storage Volume Templates
- About volume templates
  - About volume template consistency
- Storage Volume Templates screen details
- Create a volume template
- Copy a volume template
- Delete a volume template
- Edit a volume template
Switches
- About top-of-rack switches
- Edit a switch
- Refresh a switch
- Remove a switch
Troubleshooting
- Basic troubleshooting techniques in HPE OneView
- Using the virtual appliance console
- Troubleshooting activity
  - Alerts are not generated
  - Alert is locked in HPE OneView
  - Alerts are not visible in the HPE OneView user interface
  - Alert status is reported as blank or unexpected in HPE OneView
  - Alert state in HPE OneView is unexpected
  - Original alert remains even after event is resolved
- Troubleshooting appliance issues
  - Appliance did not shut down
  - Appliance is offline and unusable
  - Appliance is offline, manual action is required
  - Appliance is offline, unrecoverable error
  - Appliance performance is slow
  - Audit entries are not logged in HPE OneView
  - Audit log could not be downloaded from HPE OneView
  - Audit log is absent in HPE OneView
  - Browser does not display the HPE OneView user interface
  - Cannot create or download a backup file for HPE OneView
  - Cannot create unencrypted support dump in HPE OneView
  - Cannot log in to HPE OneView after a factory reset action
  - Cannot restart the appliance after a shutdown
  - Cannot update HPE OneView appliance
  - Certificate was revoked
  - Could not retrieve the browser session
  - Error message is displayed after upgrading when certificate management feature is enabled
  - HPE OneView appliance update file downloads, but update fails
  - HPE OneView appliance update is unsuccessful
  - Icons are not visible on the HPE OneView dashboard
  - Invalid certificate chain prevents operations
  - Invalid certificate content prevents operations in HPE OneView
  - Login screen is not displayed
  - Restore action was unsuccessful for HPE OneView
  - Reinstall the remote console for proper iLO operation
  - Support dump file not saved for HPE OneView
  - Support dump was not created for HPE OneView
  - Unable to connect to the SCMB server using a CA-signed client certificate
  - Unable to import a certificate
  - Unexpected appliance shutdown
  - Unable to see all resources in the main menu
- Troubleshooting the appliance network setup
  - Appliance cannot access the network
  - Appliance cannot retrieve DNS information from DHCP server
  - Appliance is unable to discover adapter
  - Cannot change network settings
  - DNS server is unreachable
  - Gateway server is unreachable from HPE OneView
  - NTP synchronization fails in HPE OneView
  - Some tasks and device monitoring are not working for devices using only IPv6 addresses
  - Tasks fail when appliance is in IPv6 mode
- Troubleshooting cryptography mode switching
  - Mode switch to FIPS or CNSA fails after upgrade
  - Sessions terminate during cryptography mode switch
  - Unable to manage devices after switch to FIPS or legacy mode
  - Unable to switch to CNSA mode
- Troubleshooting email notifications
  - Alert email notifications not received after update
  - Cannot configure email notification of alerts for HPE OneView
  - Designated recipients are not receiving email notifications of events
  - Frequent, irrelevant email messages from HPE OneView
  - Host does not respond as an SMTP server to HPE OneView
  - Some test messages from HPE OneView were not received
  - Test message could not be sent from HPE OneView
  - Unable to connect through sending email address host name in HPE OneView
  - Unable to deliver email messages to some email IDs from HPE OneView
  - Unexpected alert notifications received from non-scope resources in HPE OneView
- Troubleshooting enclosures and enclosure groups
  - An existing enclosure is detected as being new after a midplane is replaced
  - Invalid Onboard Administrator certificate
  - Migration of the enclosure did not complete
  - Unable to add a c7000 enclosure
  - Unable to forcibly add a c7000 enclosure
  - Unable to migrate the VCM enclosure
  - Unable to remove a c7000 enclosure
  - Unable to unconfigure single sign-on (SSO) on the Onboard Administrator when adding or removing an enclosure
  - Unassigned server profile connections cannot be migrated
- Troubleshooting firmware updates
  - Cannot upload fwpkg file into a firmware bundle
  - Failed firmware update on all devices in an enclosure
  - Firmware compliance data is not available
  - HPE OneView is unable to initiate the Superdome Flex firmware update
  - Hotfix variants not applied to the server during a firmware update using the Firmware Only mode
  - iLO firmware failed to update in HPE OneView
  - Incorrect credentials prevent communication with HPE OneView
  - Lost iLO connectivity
  - Onboard Administrator firmware failed to update in HPE OneView
  - One or more firmware components are inconsistent with the specified firmware baseline
  - Suitable hotfix variant is not applied to the server during a firmware update using Smart Update Tools
  - Superdome Flex firmware update is unsuccessful and firmware version mismatch is detected
  - Unable to create and edit server profiles for the Superdome Flex, after firmware downgrade
  - Unable to initiate the firmware update
  - Unable to remove the firmware upgrade log files in HPE OneView
- Troubleshooting hypervisor profiles
  - Delete operation is not allowed in a vSAN aware hypervisor cluster profile
  - Hypervisor cluster profile fails to remediate the inconsistency
  - Remediate operation is not successful in HPE OneView for a vSAN aware hypervisor cluster profile
  - Unsuccessful migration of vSwitch type from Standard to Distributed
- Troubleshooting interconnects
  - Interconnect edit is unsuccessful in HPE OneView
  - Interconnect failure
  - Interconnect module is in Inventory state
  - Interconnect module is in Maintenance state
  - Interconnect module is in Unmanaged state
  - Interconnect status is Missing or Incompatible
- Troubleshooting licenses in HPE OneView
  - Cannot find license count in HPE OneView
  - Could not view license details in HPE OneView
  - Could not add license in HPE OneView
  - Could not add license key in HPE OneView
  - Could not apply license in HPE OneView
  - Higher number of licensed server hardware than number under management
  - Recently added or assigned licenses appear to be inaccurate
  - Restore a license key that has been erased
  - The license assigned does not match the type specified
- Troubleshooting logical interconnects
  - Creating logical interconnects with mixed firmware versions causes issues
  - Firmware update errors in HPE OneView
  - I/O bay occupancy errors in HPE OneView
  - Pause flood condition detected on a Flex-10 or Flex-20 physical downlink port
  - Physical interconnect warnings or errors in HPE OneView
  - Uplink set warnings or errors in HPE OneView
- Troubleshooting logical switches
  - Switch communications
- Troubleshooting networks
  - Network create operation in HPE OneView is unsuccessful
- Troubleshooting reports
  - Cannot view reports in HPE OneView
- Troubleshooting scopes
  - Cannot add scope in HPE OneView
  - Cannot edit or delete scope in HPE OneView
  - Troubleshoot authorization failures
- Troubleshooting server hardware
  - Add server failed
  - Cannot add a server
  - Cannot control power on server
  - Cannot remove a server
  - Lost connectivity to server hardware after HPE OneView appliance restarts
  - Refresh and other operations on rack manager or server hardware are not successful in HPE OneView for Superdome Flex servers
  - Replace a server with an assigned server profile
  - Server does not power on after system board replacement
  - Server is in POST while setting one-time boot option
- Troubleshooting server profiles
  - Any failure to update firmware and OS drivers
  - Auto-assignment for FlexNIC fails while assigning or deploying connections
  - Cannot add a connection from the profile
  - Cannot apply the server profile
  - Cannot complete firmware installation
  - Cannot find a network when adding a connection
  - Cannot update or delete profile in HPE OneView
  - Inconsistent firmware versions displayed in HPE OneView
  - Profile operations are not successful in HPE OneView
  - Profile operation times out when applying BIOS settings.
  - Server profile is not created or updated correctly in HPE OneView
  - Servers powered on, but not configured for SUT
  - Unable to delete profile: MyProfile or cannot make additional firmware changes
  - Unable to power off server profile
  - Unable to update firmware
- Troubleshooting storage
  - Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) SAN manager fails to add in HPE OneView
  - Storage system port is in a failing over state
  - Storage system port is in a failed over state
  - Storage system port is in a failed state
  - Storage system port is in a recovering state
  - Storage system port is in a partner port failed over state
  - Storage system port is in a partner failed state
  - Target port failure in HPE OneView
  - Volume does not boot operating system as expected
  - Volume is visible from the storage system but not visible on the appliance
  - Volume not available to server hardware in HPE OneView
  - Unable to establish connection with Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) SAN manager
  - Unable to establish connection with Fabric Operating System (FOS) SAN manager
  - Zone operations fail on Cisco SAN manager
- Troubleshooting switches
- Troubleshooting user accounts
  - Cannot add directory group
  - Cannot add directory service
  - Cannot add server for a directory service
  - Cannot delete local user account in HPE OneView
  - Cannot find directory group in HPE OneView
  - Cannot modify local user account in HPE OneView
  - Directory service not available
  - Incorrect privileges in HPE OneView
  - Unauthenticated user or group
  - User public key is not accepted by HPE OneView
Unmanaged Devices
- About unmanaged devices
- Unmanaged Devices screen details
  - General
  - Add or edit Unmanaged Devices
- Add an unmanaged device
- Edit unmanaged device properties
- Remove an unmanaged device
Users and Groups
- About user accounts
- About authentication settings
- About user roles
- Action privileges for user roles
- Built-in groups — Microsoft Active Directory
- Example: OpenLDAP directory configuration
- Example: Users and groups in same OU — Microsoft Active Directory
- Example: Users and groups in different OUs, under same parent — Microsoft Active Directory
- Example: Users and groups in different OUs, under different parents — Microsoft Active Directory
- LDAP schema object classes
- Users and Groups screen details
  - Add or Edit User screen details
  - Add/Edit Directory Group screen details
- Quick Start: Add an authentication directory service and groups
  - Scenario: Adding an OpenLDAP authentication directory service
  - Scenario: Adding a Microsoft Active Directory authentication directory service
- Add a fully authorized local user (Infrastructure administrator)
- Add a fully authorized user with authentication by membership in an organizational directory
- Add a group with directory-based authentication
- Add a local user with specialized access
- Add a user with role-based access and authentication by membership in an organizational directory
- Designate user privileges
- Edit a local user account (as Infrastructure administrator)
- Edit a user account
- Edit your local user account
- Remove a user or group account
- Reset the administrator password
- Validate the directory server configuration
- Verify user rights
Utilization
- About the Utilization panel
  - About utilization graphs and meters
- Utilization screen details
- Change the time range displayed in a utilization graph
- Create a custom utilization graph
Websites
HPE OneView Remote Technician
HPE OneView product feedback
Support and other resources
- Accessing Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support
- Accessing updates
- Customer self repair
- Remote support
- Warranty information
- Regulatory information
- Documentation feedback