The HP Server Automation training course provides the necessary foundation to manage the data center servers and application environment using HP Server Automation (SA). The course covers the key components of SA and their functionality.
Through lecture and hands-on practice, Participants develop the skills necessary to successfully provision servers, manage physical and virtual environments, as well as manage software, packages, patches, and application configurations using SA. They will also learn how to enforce compliance, and audit and report on server activities through SA.
By attending HP Server Automation workshop, Participants will learn to:
- Describe the Server Automation (SA) core architecture and key components of SA
- Integrate unmanaged servers into the SA managed environment and discover server information through SA
- Use the Operation System (OS) Provisioning feature of SA to automate the installation of OS onto servers
- Provision virtual servers and manage their server lifecycle through SA
- Create static and dynamic device groups to manage multiple servers as groups
- Manage packages as part of the software management feature in SA
- Use a policy-based management methodology to provision software and manage software updates
- Describe and use Application Deployment Manager (ADM) to manage an application lifecycle using SA
- Use the Application Configuration feature of SA to manage the values in configuration files on managed servers
- Manage patches on various OS platforms using a patch policy or software policy
- Use the Audit and Remediation feature of SA to ensure servers and applications are compliant with defined best practices or corporate policies
- Use the Compliance feature of SA to discover out-of-compliance servers in the managed environment and ensure that they are in compliance with corporate policies
- Use the Global Shell and Global File System (OGFS) features to explore and manage servers in an SA environment
- Create, manage, and execute scripts I SA to manage servers or server groups
- Knowledge of networking terms and concepts
- Knowledge of various operating system environments
- System Administrators
- IT Managers
- IT or Application Architects
- Data Center Managers
- Application Experts
- Operations Experts
- Deployment Specialists
- Application Deployment Manager Administrators
- QA Team Members and Managers
- Security Administrators
- Other technical personnel who are responsible for data center automation