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

7.1.3 Support for custom or other variants of Linux operating systems.........................................82
7.2 Using Kickstart or AutoYaST files for unattended installations.....................................................82
7.2.1 Naming conventions for installation configuration files........................................................83
7.2.2 Customizing installation configuration files...........................................................................84
7.2.3 Installation configuration files for custom operating systems................................................86
7.2.4 Configuring an operating system for console redirection......................................................86
7.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems...................................................................87
7.3.1 Additional prerequisites for certain ProLiant servers............................................................88
7.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems............................................................................................89
7.4.1 Installing RHEL using an unattended method.......................................................................89
7.4.2 Installing RHEL interactively..................................................................................................89
7.5 Installing SLES on managed systems..............................................................................................91
7.5.1 Installing SLES using an unattended method.........................................................................91
7.5.2 Installing SLES interactively...................................................................................................91
7.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems......................................................91
7.6.1 Installing a VMware ESX OS using a Kickstart file.................................................................92
7.6.2 Installing a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi OS interactively..................................................93
7.7 Installing another variant of Linux on managed systems...............................................................95
7.8 Generic procedure for installing an OS on one or more managed systems...................................95
8 Using HP Insight Control for Linux to update HP ProLiant firmware........................99
8.1 Overview of updating HP ProLiant firmware................................................................................99
8.2 Basic firmware update functionality.............................................................................................100
8.2.1 Initial setup............................................................................................................................100
8.2.2 Updating firmware on systems known by HP SIM..............................................................100
8.2.3 Updating firmware on systems during bare-metal discovery..............................................101
8.2.4 Viewing the results of a firmware update.............................................................................101
8.2.5 Specifying HPSUM option flags............................................................................................101
8.2.6 Adding or removing firmware files from the firmware tar file............................................102
8.2.7 Firmware update time out.....................................................................................................102
8.3 Advanced firmware update functionality.....................................................................................103
8.3.1 Understanding the firmware configuration file....................................................................103
8.3.2 Example firmware configuration files...................................................................................104
9 Installing PSPs on managed systems........................................................................105
9.1 Overview of the PSP installation tool............................................................................................105
9.2 Required PSP components............................................................................................................105
9.3 Creating a PSP dependency script.................................................................................................106
9.4 PSP installation procedure............................................................................................................107
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....................................................................................112
10.3 Capturing a Linux image from a managed system.....................................................................114
10.4 Preparing for scalable deployment..............................................................................................116
10.5 Deploying a captured Linux image to one or more managed system........................................119
10.6 HP Insight Control for Linux partition wizard overview...........................................................121
10.6.1 Partition wizard requirements and guidelines....................................................................122
10.6.2 Using the partition wizard..................................................................................................123
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