HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 and 7.3 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

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Contents

1 Introduction.............................................................................................11

Automated infrastructure design provisioning and management....................................................12

Matrix infrastructure orchestration and the Matrix Operating Environment solution...........................12

Matrix infrastructure orchestration users and groups.....................................................................13

Software deployment and service provisioning............................................................................14

Operations Orchestration........................................................................................................15

API and CLI support................................................................................................................16

2 Installation and configuration.....................................................................17

Installing infrastructure orchestration..........................................................................................17

Upgrading infrastructure orchestration.......................................................................................17

Uninstalling infrastructure orchestration......................................................................................17

Licensing infrastructure orchestration..........................................................................................17

Configuring infrastructure orchestration users in Windows............................................................18

Matrix infrastructure orchestration roles.................................................................................18

Adding user accounts to groups...........................................................................................19

Removing Windows users with IO resource permissions..........................................................20

Modifying the infrastructure orchestration properties file...............................................................20

Adding custom links on console home page..........................................................................21

Adding a custom license agreement requirement....................................................................21

Adding or editing custom console links for logical servers.......................................................21

Re-enabling the telnet link...............................................................................................22

Hiding unused FlexNICs.....................................................................................................22

Modifying settings for use with customizable templates............................................................22

Defining custom server actions.............................................................................................23

Configuring a federated CMS environment.................................................................................24

Manually enabling federated CMS in new installations...........................................................24

Configuring a federation.....................................................................................................25

Support for a rolling upgrade of a CMS federation................................................................27

Create user groups on secondary CMSs...............................................................................27

Configuring resources on the secondary CMSs......................................................................27

Configuring HP Operations Orchestration..................................................................................28

Configuring Operations Orchestration system properties..........................................................28

Specifying SMTP credentials and system properties................................................................30

Accessing Operations Orchestration.....................................................................................31

Configuring a remote instance of Operations Orchestration Studio...........................................32

Downloading Operations Orchestration Studio..................................................................32

Installing a remote instance of Operations Orchestration Studio...........................................32

Updating a remote instance of Operations Orchestration Studio to the latest version..............33

Configuring Operations Orchestration Studio on a remote computer....................................33

Pruning history data for Operations Orchestration Central systems............................................34

Configuring deployment servers................................................................................................34

Registering deployment servers............................................................................................34

Configuring Insight Control server provisioning......................................................................35

Utilizing enhanced server customization...........................................................................35

Configuring Insight Control server deployment.......................................................................37

Creating server deployment job folders............................................................................37

Modifying the Erase ProLiant Hardware job......................................................................37

Configuring Ignite-UX.........................................................................................................41

Discovering the Ignite-UX deployment server.....................................................................41

Integrity VM Guest Kit installation....................................................................................42

Configuring HP Server Automation.......................................................................................42

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