HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Administrator Guide

Figure 2 Insight Control server provisioning discovery
Target Server
Discovery
Start
Are you
using PXE as your
discovery
method?
Gen8 or newer
target server?
Add target server via
iLO using appliance
UI
Power on target
server manually
Server is
automatically PXE
booted to default
service OS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Server is
automatically
booted to default
HP Intelligent
Provisioning service
OS
Target
Server Life
Cycle
1
Discovery is complete.
Target server is running
default service OS
and is waiting for a
Build Plan to be run.
Indicates a target
server state
User action
Action taken
automatically
by appliance
Use the following points to help you decide which method to use when adding servers.
Reasons to add servers via iLO
• You have the iLO credentials for your target servers.
• You have Gen8 or newer servers and want to use HP Intelligent Provisioning.
• You don’t want to PXE boot your Gen8 or newer servers.
• You don’t want a special access account automatically created on your iLOs.
Reasons to boot to maintenance mode when using iLO
• You want to discover all the server information so you can see it and use it for search in the
UI.
• You want to verify the server network connection before running a Build Plan.
• You will be running a Build Plan with network personalization, so you must establish the
server’s deployment NIC. (Network personalization cannot be used unless the server has been
booted to maintenance at least once.)
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