Management Software for HP RAID cards

[Duke5A]

The HP software for managing their RAID controllers from within Windows is absolute garbage with Dell's Open Manage coming in a close second. I've been spoiled with Dell servers though because their PERC controllers are just rebranded LSI cards and the LSI Megaraid Storage Manager works with them. MSM to me is exactly what it should be and nothing more (remote management capabilities, built-in reporting, etc).

 

Does anyone know of any tricks to managing HP RAID controllers? I'm just trying to get some simple email reporting going, but their software and required licensing for basic functionality is a minefield.

 

Thanks...