HP Device Manager 4.5 - Installation Guide

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Table of contents
Overview ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Server preparation ............................................................................................................................... 5
FTP server configuration .................................................................................................................... 5
Windows Firewall settings ................................................................................................................. 5
Firewall settings for FTP ................................................................................................................. 5
Firewall settings for HP Device Manager ......................................................................................... 6
Installing HP Device Manager 4.5 ......................................................................................................... 7
Running the installation file ................................................................................................................ 7
HPDM configuration ....................................................................................................................... 11
Creating a new database ................................................................................................................ 15
Upgrading to HP Device Manager 4.5 ................................................................................................. 20
Running the installation file to upgrade HPDM ................................................................................... 20
HPDM configuration during an upgrade ........................................................................................... 25
Using an existing database ............................................................................................................. 29
HP Device Manager tools ................................................................................................................... 35
Configuring HPDM Server ............................................................................................................... 35
Accessing the Server configuration file .......................................................................................... 35
Thread settings ........................................................................................................................... 35
Port settings ............................................................................................................................... 36
Poll settings ................................................................................................................................ 36
Task settings ............................................................................................................................... 36
Log settings ................................................................................................................................ 37
Cache settings ............................................................................................................................ 37
Configuring HPDM Gateway ........................................................................................................... 38
HPDM Gateway configurations .................................................................................................... 39
HPDM Gateway tray icon colors .................................................................................................. 40
HPDM Gateway tray icon menu ................................................................................................... 40
Configuring DHCP tags ................................................................................................................... 41
Configuring HPDM Agent................................................................................................................ 41
Configuring HP WES/XPe/CE clients ............................................................................................ 41
Configuring HP ThinPro/Debian clients ......................................................................................... 42
Agent parameters ....................................................................................................................... 44
Appendix A—Port usage in HP Device Manager ................................................................................... 45