HP Insight Control server provisioning Manual Media Server Configuration

Manually Creating a Windows-based Media Server

From the IC server provisioning virtual appliance, the IC server provisioning Media Server Setup Utility is

available for download onto a Windows-based server. This utility can be used to setup the Media Server via an

interactive interface. However, this section provides information on setting up a Windows-based Media server

without the utility.

IC server provisioning requires two types of access to the Media Server.

• Windows file share access to read operating system distribution files and HP SPP, and to store the Windows

images created using the provided Windows OS Build Plans (OSBPs).

• HTTP access to read operating system distribution files for Linux and ESXi scripted installations.

This section presumes that the reader is familiar with using a Windows operating system.

Create Windows-based Media Server

To create a Windows-based Media server:

1. On a server already running Windows, create a top level directory under which the Media Server files will be

stored. The example used will be c:\MediaServer.

2. Under this top level directory, create two subdirectories: Images and Media. For example,

c:\MediaServer\Images and c:\MediaServer\Media. The Media folder is where all of the vendor

supplied media will be stored, and the Images folder is where all captured images will be written.

3. For each operating system distribution, create a subdirectory under Media and copy the appropriate

operating system distributions, including hidden or system files, and SPP using the directory names in Table 2.

Using these directory names will ensure the IC server provisioning-provided OS Build Plans will run without

modification.

Setup Windows File Share for Windows Deployments

To setup the Windows file share:

1. Right-click the top level Media Server directory created in Step 1, for example c:\MediaServer, and select

Properties > Sharing Tab > Share button.

2. Enter the user authorized to access this share,

IMPORTANT: Only local Windows user accounts should be given authorization to access the file share.

Authorizing Domain user accounts to access the file share is not supported.

3. Set the Permission Level to Read/Write and click Share.

NOTE: If the user is not given write access then all Image capture build plans will fail while trying to store the

captured image to this share.

4. Apply the following Microsoft patch to enable use of ntlmv2 authentication for access validation on the file

share. The hotfix can be found at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957441. The hotfix creates/updates the

following registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0\AllowLegacyS

rvCall with value 1 (DWORD).

5. To test that the share was created successfully, access the file share from another Windows server.

Setup HTTP Access for Linux and ESXi Deployments

To setup sharing operating system files via HTTP, it is recommended to use Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)

since it is available as an installable feature on Windows servers. It is recommended using IIS 7 or above.