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HP Smart Update Firmware DVD User Guide Part Number 447788-401 March 2010 (Tenth Edition)

Deployment options 10 Deployment options Host types You can run the Smart Update Firmware DVD either online or offline. When performing an online de

Deployment options 11 — On Linux operating systems, enter /autorun NOTE: If you are using a USB drive key with multiple CD images, navigate to

Deployment options 12 1. Obtain SYSLINUX 3.5 or higher from The Syslinux Project website (http://syslinux.zytor.com/index.php) and download to a Lin

Deployment options 13 4. Execute HP Smart Update Manager to have the new firmware components recognized. Deploying components not on Smart Update F

Deployment options 14 can be re-enabled. Once the BitLocker Drive Encryption has been re-enabled, the plain text key is removed and BitLocker secure

Deployment options 15 When the firmware update process is completed, the BitLocker Drive Encryption support can be re-enabled by following steps 1 t

Deployment options 16 Setup Before proceeding with the configuration, ensure that your TFTP server and PXELinux configuration is setup and configure

Deployment options 17 Your final configuration must be similar to the following example: label sos MENU LABEL Automatic Firmware Update Version 9.

Deployment options 18 To deploy firmware and software components from Windows® PSPs and server blade bundles simultaneously, run the HP Smart Update

Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode 19 Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode Overview HP Smart Update DVD, in conjunct

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Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode 20 Updating the firmware on a server To update the firmware on a server, you have the following

Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode 21 NOTE: Do not close the virtual media web page, or it might disconnect the ISO image. 9.

Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode 22 10. You must either plug in the KVM dongle or use iLO Remote Console support to browse into t

Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode 23 Updating multiple enclosures simultaneously To update multiple enclosures simultaneously, you

Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode 24 Sample scripts The sample script is used to control updating firmware on blades in an enclosu

Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode 25 # If you want to use a pre-made/modified list, just comment out the if statement # and the &

Smart Update Firmware DVD Automatic Deployment Mode 26 UID light status Meaning Blinking Either a remote console is active, or the Automatic Mode

Advanced topics 27 Advanced topics Server virtualization detection and support HP Smart Update Manager, running in the context of a Windows® PSP, su

Advanced topics 28 Configuring IPv6 for Windows Server 2003 For information on setting up a Windows Server® 2003 operating system within an IPv6 net

Advanced topics 29 IPv6 addresses can be passed to HP Smart Update Manager in command line arguments or using the HP Smart Update Manager user inter

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Advanced topics 30 Configuring IPv6 for Windows Server 2008 HP Smart Update Manager provides the most robust support for remote deployment when usin

Advanced topics 31 IPv6 addresses can be passed to HP Smart Update Manager in command line arguments or using the HP Smart Update Manager user inter

Advanced topics 32 Limitations of IPv6 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 Windows Server® 2003 requires site-local addresses to provide

Advanced topics 33 IPv6 addresses can be passed to HP Smart Update Manager in command line arguments or using the HP Smart Update Manager user inter

Advanced topics 34 Limitations of IPv6 for Linux The only current limitation of HP Smart Update Manager in a Linux IPv6 environment is that all remo

Troubleshooting 35 Troubleshooting Recovering from a failed ROM upgrade Recovering from a failed system ROM upgrade Use redundant ROM or ROMPaq to r

Troubleshooting 36 6. Power up the server. The server generates one long beep and two short beeps to indicate that it is in disaster recovery mode.

Troubleshooting 37 Recovering from an installation failure Collecting trace directories HP Smart Update Manager generates a set of debug trace logs

Troubleshooting 38 The following is an example of how the output trace in the OpMan.trace determines if a component was prevented from being shown o

Troubleshooting 39 • For Linux, ensure that the target server can be contacted through SSH and that the scp command is available to securely send f

Recovering from a failed system ROM upgrade ... 35 Recovering from a f

Troubleshooting 40 Recovering from a blocked program on Microsoft Windows Configuring Windows firewall settings The Windows® Security Alert appears

Troubleshooting 41 scanning software from denying service to the application. The SOAP server is deployed on the remote target using the initial por

Troubleshooting 42 Ports 60000-60007 Random ports are used in this range to pass messages back and forth between the local and remote systems via S

Troubleshooting 43 system, the message causes the reboot not to occur automatically. For a successful reboot, you must select the Exit button. Reco

Troubleshooting 44 Troubleshooting HP Smart Update Manager in IPv6 Windows Server 2003 environment To validate that the IPv6 network is configured c

Troubleshooting 45 • Verify that you can connect to the admin$ share using the credentials within HP Smart Update Manager by issuing the following

Troubleshooting 46 this parameter for each server blade and within four seconds after the boot prompt appears following the server POST.

Technical support 47 Technical support Reference documentation To download the ProLiant Firmware Maintenance and other CDs, see the SmartStart downl

Acronyms and abbreviations 48 Acronyms and abbreviations GUI graphical user interface HBA host bus adapter HDD hard drive HPSUM HP Smart Update M

Acronyms and abbreviations 49 SAN storage area network SAS serial attached SCSI SCSI small computer system interface SOAP Simple Object Access Pr

Introduction 5 Introduction HP Smart Update Firmware DVD overview The HP Smart Update Firmware DVD provides a collection of firmware for supported H

Index 50 A advanced topics 27 audience assumptions 5, 19 authorized reseller 47 B BladeSystem firmware 7 blocked HP Smart Update Manager, re

Index 51 redundant ROM 35 references 47 release sets 8 release sets vs bundles 9 remote functionality, recovering 39 requirements, minimum

Introduction 6 To successfully deploy HP Smart Update Manager on target systems based on a Windows® operating system, the following must be availabl

Introduction 7 New features The Firmware DVD 9.0 has the following new features: • Ships on a DVD • Contains Firmware Deployment Tool and Blade Bu

Introduction 8 Obtaining the HP Smart Update Firmware DVD The Smart Update Firmware DVD can be downloaded at no cost from the HP Technical Support w

Smart Update Firmware DVD contents 9 Smart Update Firmware DVD contents Release sets versus bundles A release set is an enhanced, solutions-oriented