HP Smart Update Manager 6.4.1 Release Notes

7. Create a default pxelinux configuration.
a. Create a file name default in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory.
b. Set the contents of the default file to:
prompt 1
default Linux
timeout 100
label Linux
kernel vmlinux
append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 noapic acpi=off
8. Copy the entire contents of the SPP ISO to a directory named /tftpboot/SPP*, where ‘”’
represents the version of the SPP.
9. Add the following to /ect/httpd/conf/httpd/conf where “*” represents the version of the
SPP.
<Directory /tftpboot/SPP*>.
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
Alias /linux /tftpboot/SPP*
10. Start the dhcpd and apache services and activate tftp.
service dhcpd start
service xinetd restart
service httpd start
11. PXE boot the servers to begin the update process.
Finding help and user documentation
HP Smart Update Manager User Guide: You can download the user guide from the HP SUM
documentation library at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsum/documentation.
HP Smart Update Manager Online Help: In the GUI, you can open the online help by clicking
the ? in the right-corner of the application.
For help with the legacy CLI, see the Using legacy scripts to deploy updates chapter of the HP
Smart Update Manager User Guide. You can also type hpsum /h /s from the directory where
you saved HP SUM.
For help with the text-based console, see the Console Commands chapter of the HP Smart Update
Manager User Guide. You can also type hpsum /h from the directory where you saved HP SUM.
Migrating nodes from 6.x to the current version
Nodes you added to earlier versions of HP SUM must be migrated before you can use them in this
version of HP SUM. Use the script hpsum_migration to perform the migration at any time.
1. From the HP SUM directory, launch hpsum_migration.bat (Windows) or
hpsum_migration.sh (Linux).
2. HP SUM displays a list of previous versions of HP SUM it finds. Select the versions you want to
migrate to the current version.
HP SUM migrates the node address and name that you have entered in the earlier version of HP SUM.
16 Migrating nodes from 6.x to the current version