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Figure 7-1 Initiate Bare-Metal Discovery tool

IMPORTANT:

You can use the Initiate Bare-Metal Discovery tool tool for servers that are

PXE-booted or that use virtual media.

If you are using virtual media, you can only use this tool for bare-metal discovery of an iLO-based
management processor. Furthermore, before using this tool, you must first discover the server's
iLO and define the network configuration definitions using the Network Configuration Editor.
For more information on defining the network configuration and discovering the iLO, see

Chapter 6 (page 63)

. For information on the Network Configuration Editor, see

“Using the

Network Configuration Editor” (page 70)

.

You can also use the Initiate Bare-Metal Discovery tool to discover bare-metal systems through
PXE.

Follow these steps to perform a bare-metal discovery:

1.

Run the Initiate Bare-Metal Discovery tool by selecting Options

IC-LinuxInitiate Bare

Metal Discovery

.

2.

Select the management processor for the server you want to discover as the target and select
Next>

.

You can select multiple management processors to discover multiple servers.

3.

Verify the target and select Next>.

4.

Select the Virtual Media radio button.

5.

Select Run Now.

6.

When HP SIM correctly identifies the server, a new task named Bare Metal Discovery
Post Processing

appears in the Task Results list, which you can view with the Tasks

& Logs

View Task Results… menu item.

Allow the task to run to completion.

7.

The server appears in the HP SIM All Servers collection and the associated management
processor appears in the HP SIM All Management Processors collection.

7.1 Discovering systems

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