HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Administrator Guide

Contents
1 Insight Control server provisioning overview...................................................8
Components of Insight Control server provisioning........................................................................9
HP Insight Control server provisioning concepts............................................................................9
2 Managing the appliance...........................................................................11
Activating Insight Control server provisioning..............................................................................11
Updating the appliance...........................................................................................................11
Information on using Insight Control server provisioning...............................................................11
Actions for managing your appliance........................................................................................11
3 Managing your Media Server....................................................................13
About the Media Server..........................................................................................................13
Default HP Media Server layout...........................................................................................13
Copying OS Distributions or SPP to the Media Server.............................................................14
How the Media Server works with OS Build Plans..................................................................14
Media Server custom attributes.......................................................................................15
Windows OS Build Plans...............................................................................................16
Linux ESXi OS Build Plans...............................................................................................16
Install SPP and update firmware OS Build Plans.................................................................16
Install Intelligent Provisioning Firmware Update OS Build Plan.............................................16
Manually creating a Windows-based Media Server....................................................................16
Create a Windows-based Media Server...............................................................................17
Setup a Windows file share for Windows deployments...........................................................17
Grant read permission to IIS users...................................................................................18
Setup HTTP access for Linux and ESXi deployments.................................................................18
Manually creating a Linux-based Media Server...........................................................................19
Create Linux-based Media Server.........................................................................................19
Setup Samba Server for Windows deployments.....................................................................20
Setup HTTP access using Apache Web Server for Linux and ESXi deployments...........................21
Setup HTTP access on SUSE Linux Media Server................................................................21
Setup HTTP Access on Red Hat Linux Media Server...........................................................21
Setup NFS access for the Linux Media Server (optional)..........................................................22
Setup Linux File Share (NFS) for Linux and ESXi deployments...............................................22
Modify the operating system installation OS Build Plans for NFS..........................................23
Modify the Update Firmware OS Build Plan for NFS..........................................................23
Modify the Intelligent Provisioning Firmware Update OS Build Plan for NFS..........................23
Modify the Install SPP OS Build Plan for NFS....................................................................23
4 Managing user accounts...........................................................................25
5 Special OS and hardware considerations....................................................26
Working with UEFI capable servers...........................................................................................26
Making the SLES11 SP2 OS Build Plan work properly on ML310e Gen8 v2 and DL320e Gen8 v2
servers..................................................................................................................................27
Network hardware exceptions..................................................................................................27
RHEL5.x OS Build Plan special configuration for SAN multipath....................................................28
RHEL 6.3 OS deployments with iSCSI or FCoE require special configuration of kickstart file..............28
Special configuration for servers with B120i and B320i controllers ...............................................28
6 Managing and provisioning servers............................................................29
Server life cycle......................................................................................................................29
Target server requirements.......................................................................................................30
Adding servers.......................................................................................................................30
Deciding which method to use to add a server.......................................................................30
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