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2 preparing for virtual media, 1 discovering the management processor with hp sim, Preparing for virtual – HP Insight Control Software for Linux User Manual

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IMPORTANT:

Use these tools to define the network configuration parameters before running

any other tool that uses virtual media, especially Initiate Bare Metal Discovery.

Usually, network configuration is performed in two stages:

In the first stage, you define the network configuration parameters and store them under a
network name. You can have as many network name definitions as you want.

In the second stage, you use the Network Configuration Editor to apply the predefined
network names to the server's management processor.

These tools are discussed in

“Using the Define Networks tool” (page 29)

and

“Using the Network

Configuration Editor” (page 31)

, respectively.

2.2 Preparing for virtual media

Preparing for virtual media consists of three activities:

“Discovering the management processor with HP SIM” (page 26)

“Creating a user account and enabling virtual media on the management processor” (page 28)

“Licensing virtual media on the management processor” (page 29)

NOTE:

If a server's NIC is on a private (physical) network, but the server's iLO is on a public

(physical) network, you must edit the /opt/mx/icle/icle.properties file so that the iLO
can mount the bootable ISO image file from the CMS. Add the following line to the
icle.properties

file:

VIRTUAL_MEDIA_REPOSITORY_IP=CMS_ext_IP

Where CMS_ext_IP is the external IP address of the CMS.

2.2.1 Discovering the management processor with HP SIM

1.

Using HP SIM, begin the process of discovering the management processor by selecting
Options

Discovery....

2.

Select New....

The window expands to accommodate additional parameter fields:

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Configuring network parameters for virtual media