HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 5)

8.2 Linux OS installation.....................................................................................................78
8.3 Setting up managed systems for monitoring.....................................................................78
8.3.1 Opening network ports on managed systems............................................................79
8.3.2 Resolving host names on the CMS..........................................................................79
8.3.3 Installing additional SPP and PSP components..........................................................80
8.3.4 Configuring agents and HP SIM SSH keys...............................................................80
8.3.5 Configuring console access and logging.................................................................83
8.3.6 Turning on password authentication .......................................................................85
8.4 Next steps..................................................................................................................86
9 Installing operating systems on managed systems......................................87
9.1 Linux OS installation overview........................................................................................87
9.1.1 Interactive versus unattended installations..................................................................87
9.1.2 Supported operating systems...................................................................................88
9.1.3 Installing other Linux operating systems.....................................................................88
9.2 Using installation configuration files for unattended installations.........................................88
9.2.1 Naming conventions for installation configuration files................................................89
9.2.2 Customizing installation configuration files...............................................................90
9.2.3 Installation configuration files for custom operating systems.........................................92
9.2.4 Configuring an operating system for console redirection............................................92
9.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems........................................................92
9.3.1 Additional prerequisites for certain ProLiant servers....................................................93
9.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems...............................................................................94
9.4.1 Installing RHEL using an unattended method.............................................................94
9.4.2 Installing RHEL interactively....................................................................................95
9.5 Installing SLES on managed systems................................................................................95
9.5.1 Installing SLES using an unattended method..............................................................95
9.5.2 Installing SLES interactively.....................................................................................96
9.5.3 Required kernel parameters for installing x86 SLES operating systems on various
servers.........................................................................................................................96
9.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems..............................................96
9.6.1 Installing a VMware ESX or ESXi OS using a Kickstart file...........................................97
9.6.2 Installing a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi OS interactively.........................................98
9.7 Installing another variant of Linux on managed systems.....................................................99
9.8 Generic procedure for installing an OS on one or more managed systems.........................101
10 Capturing and deploying Linux images................................................104
10.1 Overview of capturing and deploying Linux images ......................................................104
10.1.1 File system types.................................................................................................105
10.1.2 Precapture and postcapture scripts.......................................................................105
10.1.3 Predeployment, postdeployment, and final deployment scripts..................................106
10.2 Prerequisites to capturing a Linux image......................................................................106
10.3 Capturing a Linux image from a managed system.........................................................109
10.4 Preparing for scalable deployment..............................................................................110
10.5 Deploying a captured Linux image to one or more managed system................................113
10.6 Insight Control for Linux partition wizard overview.........................................................116
10.6.1 Partition wizard requirements and guidelines.........................................................116
10.6.2 Using the partition wizard..................................................................................117
11 Installing and setting up virtual machines..............................................119
11.1 Installing virtual hosts.................................................................................................119
11.2 Registering the virtual host with Insight Control virtual machine management.....................120
11.3 Creating and installing virtual guests............................................................................121
11.3.1 Guidelines for configuring a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi virtual guest....................121
11.3.2 Guidelines for configuring a KVM virtual guest......................................................122
11.3.2.1 Installing a RHEL KVM virtual guest...............................................................122
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