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HP Insight Control Software for Linux User Manual

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Corrective actions

Cause/Symptom

Password modification failed.
Unable to add or update user account on
management processor.

Configure

→Management Processor→Credentials to

configure a new global password of at least 8 characters.

Use a browser to verify access to the LO100i management
processor with the following command to access its web

Possible bare metal discovery issues with LO100i servers

Insight Control for Linux cannot access an LO100i-based
management processor during bare metal discovery; thus, page. HP SIM uses this command to discover the LO100i

MP; this command must succeed before you can use Insight
Control for Linux to successfully discover the LO100i MP.

the LO100i MP and server are not correctly associated in
HP SIM.

http://LO100i_IP_Address/xmldata?item=all

where LO100i_IP_Address is the IP address of the
LO100i MP.

If you cannot access the LO100 web page, verify that the
correct firewall ports are open on your CMS, as specified
in the HP Insight Control for Linux Installation Guide.

Perform the following procedure to create a new partition
table:

Bare metal discovery might complain there is no DOS
partition on the disk

During a bare-metal discovery on a new system with new
disks, when the RAM disk is loaded onto the system, Insight

1.

Use the text editor of your choice to edit the /var/lib/
systemimager/scripts/toolkit.sh

file.

Change the value of the
CLEAR_DISKPARTITIONS_ON_DISCOVERY

variable

in that file from:

Control for Linux might report that there was no valid DOS
partition on the disk and subsequently might fail to complete
the discovery process.

CLEAR_DISKPARTITIONS_ON_DISCOVERY=0

To:

CLEAR_DISKPARTITIONS_ON_DISCOVERY=1

Save the file and exit the text editor.

2.

Reinitiate bare-metal discovery using
Options

→IC-Linux→Initiate Bare Metal Discovery....

3.

Edit the /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/
toolkit.sh

file to reset the

CLEAR_DISKPARTITIONS_ON_DISCOVERY

to 0.

Save the file and exit the text editor.

Add the following lines to the /etc/dhcpd.conf file on
the dhcpd server:

Servers with NetXen gPXE NIC require DHCP modifications

A server with a NetXen gPXE 4.0.230 NIC will not accept
an IP address from a Linux-based dhcpd server, which
causes problems with the discovery process.

# gpxe options
option space gpxe;
option gpxe.no-pxedhcp code 176 = unsigned
integer 8;
option gpxe-encap-opts code 175 =
encapsulate gpxe;
option gpxe.priority code 1 = signed
integer 8;

option gpxe.priority 1;

See the following website for more information:

http://etherboot.org

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