HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.2 Administrator Guide

1.1 Components of Insight Control server provisioning
The following diagram illustrates how the IC server provisioning virtual appliance networking,
Media Server, target servers, and an optional HP Matrix Operating Environment work together.
Figure 1 Insight Control server provisioning components
Browser
DHCP server
(optional)
Media Server
Appliance IP address
NIC
Appliance
Deployment IP address
Matrix OE
(optional)
Agent
Target server
Deployment interface
iLO IP address
• The Appliance is the HP Insight Control server provisioning product, which is delivered as a
virtual machine optimized to run the application.
• The Insight Control server provisioning appliance comes with an embedded DHCP server.
Depending on your environment, you may configure this server for use or disable it via the
appliance UI Settings screen. See “Deciding whether to use a DHCP server internal or external
to the appliance” (page 10) for additional information.
• The Appliance IP address is the IP address assigned to the appliance. Use this IP address to
browse to the appliance via a supported Browser.
• The Deployment IP address is the IP address used by the deployment engine within the
appliance. It is used to communicate with a Target server’s Deployment interface IP address
and its iLO IP address. This should be on the same network as the Appliance IP address. If
you are using IC server provisioning with the HP Matrix Operating Environment, this is the IP
address to provide to Matrix OE.
• The Target server represents a server managed by IC server provisioning. Each managed
server runs an Agent, which is software used to make changes to the server. The agent is used
for software installation and removal, software and hardware configuration, and server status
reporting.
• The Media Server contains vendor-supplied OS media used during OS provisioning. It may
also contain media for other purposes, such as firmware and driver updates, and is also where
captured images are stored. The Media Server is a separate server from the Insight Control
server provisioning appliance and is not included as part of the appliance backup and restore
actions.
1.2 Adding servers
Before you can run a job on a target server, that server must first be added to Insight Control server
provisioning. There are multiple ways to add servers to your appliance. The following sections
describe those methods and outline their differences. See also “Adding servers that are already
running an operating system” (page 41).
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