Console Quick Start, Third Edition - HP Integrity BL c-Class Servers

HP‐UXandOpenVMS

TheHP‐UXandOpenVMSoperatingsystemsusetheconsoleconnectionoftheiLO2MPasthe

defaultconsole.However,iftheiLO2MPconsolepathisnotselectedintheEFIBootManager

ConsoleConfigurationmenu,HP‐UXmessagesmaynotbepresentedtotheconsoledevice.Also,

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HP‐UXsystemstypicallymustonlyhavetheiLO2 MPconsolepathselectedintheEFIBoot

ManagerConsoleConfigurationmenu.

YoucanalsouseVGAtoconnectconsolesthatuseHP‐UXandOpenVMSoperatingsystems.On

thefrontoftheIntegrityserverblade, connecttheSUVcable

tothelocalI/Oconnector.

ForinformationonchangingthedefaultconsoleandusingtheEFIBootManagerConfiguration

Options,seeSelectingYourHP‐UXConsoleintheHP‐UXInstallationandUpdateGuideontheHP

websiteat:http://www.docs.hp.com/en

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SelectyouroperatingsystemversioninByOSReleaseandfindtheguideunderInstallingand

Updating.

ExtensibleFirmwareInterface

Priortoinstallingandbootinganoperatingsystem,allconsoleinteractiononaserverbladeis

throughsystemfirmware.Systemfirmwarecommunicatestotheconsoleconnectionsspecifiedin

theEFIBootManagerConsoleConfigurationoptions.Theseconfigurationoptionsmustmatchthe

physicalconsoledeviceconnections.

Onceanoperatingsystemisinstalled,

thedefaultsystemconsoleoutputisdeterminedandis

dependentontheEFIBootManagerConsoleConfigurationsetting.Forinformationonchanging

thedefaultconsoleandusingtheEFIBootManagerConfigurationOptions,seeyouroperating

systemdocumentation.

IMPORTANT Failuretoproperlyconfiguretheconsoledevicecanresultintheinabilityofthe

operatingsystemtointeractwiththeserver.Thissymptomcanbemisinterpreted

asasystemhang.

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HP Part Number *5991-8054* March 2009