Server Management Guide

Server Management Software and Utilities
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PE” package.
4.2 Intel
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Deployment Assistant CD
The Intel
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Deployment Assistant (IDA) provides a single interface with an easy to use HTML like
graphic UI to ease the process of setting up and deploying an Intel
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server from initial boot through the
initiation of an unattended OS installation.
Each Intel
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server board ships with a copy of Intel
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Deployment Assistant CD.
Intel
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Deployment Assistant helps a system administrator do the following:
Update an Intel
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server with the latest system software. Updates can be got from a set URL
(http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/ which can be customized by OEM), a network drive, or
removable media. The firmware components that can be updated using Intel
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Deployment
Assistant are: BIOS, Integrated BMC, non-expander HSCs, and SDRs.
Configure the most common options of the BIOS and firmware.
Configure a RAID volume on attached hard drives.
Install Microsoft Windows* and Linux* operating systems.
Clone all deployment work from one server to multi server.
NOTE
The installation is fully unattended except for a license screen agreement that you can agree to and any
changing of CDs.
The latest drivers for all the on-board components are added from IDA CD or from other supported
locations during the OS installation
Intel
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Deployment Assistant is a browser based graphical application that provides an easy to use,
wizard style interface to the system administrator for performing all the above tasks. It is packaged
onto a single CD which contains its own operating system (Linux*), a GUI, Intel
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Deployment
Assistant core, and supporting files for setup and deployment. Intel
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Deployment Assistant boots
automatically from a CD-ROM/USB drive and runs completely in a RAMDISK.