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

7.1.3 Discovering running systems ............................................................................................78
7.2 Assigning Insight Control for Linux licenses to discovered systems........................................78
7.3 Preparing and discovering switches and enclosures.................................................................79
7.4 Changing the boot method........................................................................................................80
7.5 Next steps...................................................................................................................................81
8 Setting up managed systems ..................................................................................83
8.1 Populating the Insight Control for Linux repository.................................................................83
8.2 Linux OS installation..................................................................................................................83
8.3 Setting up managed systems for monitoring.............................................................................83
8.3.1 Opening network ports on managed systems...................................................................84
8.3.2 Resolving host names on the CMS.....................................................................................84
8.3.3 Installing additional components of the PSP.....................................................................85
8.3.4 Configuring agents and HP SIM SSH keys.......................................................................85
8.3.5 Configuring console access and logging............................................................................88
8.3.6 Turning on password authentication ................................................................................90
8.4 Next steps...................................................................................................................................90
9 Installing operating systems on managed systems ...............................................91
9.1 Linux OS installation overview..................................................................................................91
9.1.1 Interactive versus unattended installations.......................................................................91
9.1.2 Supported operating systems............................................................................................92
9.1.3 Installing other Linux operating systems..........................................................................92
9.2 Using installation configuration files for unattended installations...........................................92
9.2.1 Naming conventions for installation configuration files...................................................93
9.2.2 Customizing installation configuration files.....................................................................94
9.2.3 Installation configuration files for custom operating systems..........................................96
9.2.4 Configuring an operating system for console redirection.................................................96
9.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems..............................................................97
9.3.1 Additional prerequisites for certain ProLiant servers.......................................................98
9.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems.......................................................................................99
9.4.1 Installing RHEL using an unattended method..................................................................99
9.4.2 Installing RHEL interactively.............................................................................................99
9.5 Installing SLES on managed systems.......................................................................................101
9.5.1 Installing SLES using an unattended method..................................................................101
9.5.2 Installing SLES interactively............................................................................................101
9.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems...............................................101
9.6.1 Installing a VMware ESX OS using a Kickstart file.........................................................102
9.6.2 Installing a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi OS interactively...........................................103
9.7 Installing another variant of Linux on managed systems........................................................105
9.8 Generic procedure for installing an OS on one or more managed systems............................106
10 Capturing and deploying Linux images ...........................................................109
10.1 Overview of capturing and deploying Linux images ...........................................................109
10.1.1 File system types............................................................................................................110
10.1.2 Precapture and postcapture scripts................................................................................110
10.1.3 Predeployment, postdeployment, and final deployment scripts..................................111
10.2 Prerequisites to capturing a Linux image..............................................................................111
10.3 Capturing a Linux image from a managed system................................................................114
10.4 Preparing for scalable deployment........................................................................................115
10.5 Deploying a captured Linux image to one or more managed system...................................118
10.6 Insight Control for Linux partition wizard overview............................................................120
10.6.1 Partition wizard requirements and guidelines..............................................................121
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