HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Installation Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction/overview
- 2 Requirements and networking considerations
- 3 Installing your Insight Control server provisioning appliance for the first time
- Overview of the first time set up steps
- Get the software for a first time install
- Install Insight Control server provisioning on VMware vSphere/ESXi hypervisor
- Install Insight Control server provisioning on Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
- Log in to the appliance and configure appliance networking
- Accessing your appliance from a browser for the first time
- Next steps
- 4 Updating from version 7.2.2 to 7.3.1
- 5 DHCP server setup
- 6 Setting up the Media Server
- Introduction to the Media Server
- Introduction to the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- Requirements for setting up your Media Server
- Procedure for using the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- Changes made to your web server by Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- 7 Generating and uploading WinPE to the appliance
- 8 Recommended actions after initial setup
- 9 Support and other resources
- 10 Documentation feedback
- A Updating from version 7.2 or 7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- Best practices for a successful update to 7.2.2
- Get the 7.2.2 update software and prepare it for use
- Prerequisites for update from 7.2/7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- Instructions for updating from 7.2 or 7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- What you need to do after installing the 7.2.2 update
- Changing from single NIC to multi-NIC (optional)
- Instructions for recovering from a failed 7.2.2 update
- REST API call to upload the 7.2.2 update file
- Glossary
- Index
appliance optimized to run the IC server provisioning application, there is not enough storage on
the appliance to host deployment software. For this reason, a separate Media Server is required
in order to provision servers. See “Setting up the Media Server” (page 41) for details on the use
of the Media Server, requirements for the Media Server and for details on using the Media Server
setup utility.
Considerations for generating WinPE
WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) is the service OS for the Windows operating system.
It is a special purpose operating system that is used when provisioning a target server with a
Windows OS. In many cases you will need to build a WinPE Service OS PXE image and upload
it to the appliance. WinPE cannot be shipped with your appliance, so you will need to generate
it externally and upload it to the appliance. This step would need to be performed as part of the
initial appliance setup or each time the appliance is updated since the WinPE image contains the
latest ProLiant drivers. See “Generating and uploading WinPE to the appliance” (page 48) for
details and requirements for generating and uploading WinPE to the appliance.
Recommended firmware version
IC server provisioning version 7.3.1 supports the latest firmware (including the latest versions of
the SPP, drivers, Intelligent Provisioning). See the Insight Management 7.3 Update 1 Support Matrix
for details on recommended firmware versions for 7.3.1.
Port list
The following table lists the ports that need to be open for Insight Control server provisioning.
NOTE: The OS installation configuration files shipped with Insight Control server provisioning
all have the firewall disabled by default. If your installation requires that the firewall be enabled,
be sure to include port 1002 in the list of open ports, as this is the port the SA agent uses to
communicate with the appliance.
In the following table, Web browser refers to the web browser an administrator would be using
to access these systems.
Target server iLO NIC
Communicating withDirectionDescriptionPort
Appliance NIC or Web browserinboundhttp80 (tcp)
Appliance NIC or Web browserinbound (A user configurable port. If
the user changes the port, it needs to
https443 (tcp)
be changed in the firewall and during
iLO discovery.)
Web browserboth (optional)Remote console23 (tcp)
Appliance NIC:
Communicating withDirectionDescriptionPort
target serverinboundDHCP67 (udp)
target serverinboundTFTP69 (udp)
target serveroutboundssh22 (tcp)
target server, Web browserbothhttp80 (tcp)
target server, Web browser, iLO,
Matrix CMS
bothhttps443 (tcp)
Considerations for generating WinPE 9