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Deploying Integrity Support Packs in Microsoft Windows
This chapter discusses how to use ISPs for Microsoft Windows. HP provides the following
tools for configuring components and deploying ISPs for Windows:
• Remote Deployment Utility for Microsoft Windows
• Remote Deployment Console Utility for Microsoft Windows
Several usage scenarios are provided as examples at the end of this chapter.
Overview
ISPs are operating system-specific bundles of HP server support software. Each ISP includes
multiple self-installable components known as Smart Components (optimized drivers,
management agents, and utilities). This ISP design improves and simplifies operating system
integration, flexibility, and system configuration.
HP recommends the following procedure when working with ISPs:
1. Obtain the ISP, and place it on a software repository or other medium.
IMPORTANT: HP recommends that the ISP files are present on a non-read-only medium so that
the various Smart Components in the ISP can be configured before deployment. For example, the
Support Packs and components cannot be configured when they are on a CD-ROM.
2. Be sure the Smart Components do not have the read-only attributes set.
IMPORTANT: When a Smart Component is copied from the Smart Setup or Software
Maintenance CD, the read-only attribute is set by default. Use Microsoft Windows Explorer or the
attrib command to remove the read-only attributes of Smart Components copied from a Smart
Setup or Software Maintenance CD.
3. Configure the components using the configuration functionality in the Remote
Deployment Utility for Windows.
NOTE: Components must be configured only once. The configuration information is stored inside
each Smart Component so that it is available when the component is installed. You do not need to
configure components each time they are deployed. However, configuration is independent of the
target computer you select. If you change the configuration of a component after deployment, you
must redeploy the component.
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