User Information and Service Guide - HP Carrier-Grade Server cc3310

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3. Select the Server Configuration Utilities and click on the Continue button.
4. Select the Run Service Partition Administrator option and click on the Continue button.
5. Select 3 on the Service Partition Administrator Menu to create a service partition.
6. When prompted with “On which drive should the service partition be installed”, select the number for
the appropriate drive.
7. When the following message, press any key to reboot the server:
The service partition was created successfully. The system will now be rebooted. After the reboot, return
to this utility and choose the option to format and install software. The service partition will not operate
correctly until it is formatted and software has been installed onto it. Strike a key when ready.
8. After rebooting, the HP Server cc3310 User Information Diagnostics and Utilities Resource CD software
runs again from the CD, and displays the Server Configuration Wizard. Click on the Continue button.
9. Select the Server Configuration Utilities and click on the Continue button.
10. Select the Run Service Partition Administrator option and click on the Continue button.
11. Select 4 on the Service Partition Administrator Menu to install service software.
12. When prompted with “Proceed with FORMAT”, press y to confirm partition formatting.
13. When prompted with “All data on drive D: will be lost! Are you sure? ”, press y to reconfirm partition
formatting.
14. When prompted with “The service partition has been installed successfully. Strike a key when
ready. . .”, press ESC to exit.
15. On the next screen, click on Exit.
16. When prompted by a pop-up box, click on OK. Ignore the warning that changes will be lost. (Your service
partition will not be affected.)
17. At the DOS prompt, hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete, then remove the CD from the drive.
NOTE After the service partition is installed, you can boot to it by pressing F4
during POST. The
service partition operating system is ROM-DOS. Once you have booted to the service partition,
you will be at a DOS prompt. From the prompt, you can access utilities and perform server
management functions by running batch files and executables. Example utilities include the
system setup utility and FRU/SDR load utilities.
Saving and Restoring the System Configuration
Using the system setup utility, you can save the following configuration information to a file:
• Platform type, BIOS revision, and firmware revision
• CMOS settings
• Extended system configuration data (ESCD)
• Settings for the EMP, PEP, and BMC LAN alerts
Data is saved from all sources. You cannot choose only certain pieces of configuration data to save. You can
also restore the information from a saved configuration file.
NOTE BIOS passwords are stored in the file. Restoring a configuration can change passwords on a
server. EMP and LAN passwords are not stored in the file.
Using the server configuration wizard, you can save the following configuration information to a file: