HP OpenVMS 8.x manual Setting Up InfoServer Support

NOTE: When using vMedia to install or upgrade OpenVMS, HP recommends that you use an image of the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD located on your Windows-based PC or server. This has two advantages:

—If the DVD is defective or corrupted, when you attempt to create an image of it, the imaging software will fail, thereby indicating the DVD's condition.

—Installing or upgrading OpenVMS from the image file is much faster than installing from a DVD. This advantage outweighs any extra cost or time of copying the DVD to the ISO image file.

NOTE: If your Integrity server has a local DVD drive, install or upgrade from the OpenVMS for Integrity Servers OE DVD inserted in the DVD drive on your Integrity server instead of using vMedia from your Windows-based management workstation. In short, for best performance with installations or upgrades, choose from the following, listed according to the potential speed (from fastest to slowest):

—If your Integrity server has a local DVD drive, install or upgrade using the OpenVMS for Integrity Servers OE DVD from that DVD drive instead of using vMedia from your Windows-based system.

—Install or upgrade using an ISO image of the OpenVMS for Integrity Servers OE DVD, where the image is stored on your Windows-based management workstation.

—Slowest, and not recommended unless you have no other recourse, install or upgrade from a DVD drive on your Windows-based management workstation.

To set up your environment for vMedia support, see Section C.1.4 (page 207).

•Up-to-date firmware for the Integrity server (on server blades, this includes the firmware for the Onboard Administrator).

•For upgrades, OpenVMS boot flags set to (0,0).

•Optionally, HP iLO or other means for monitoring the console.

C.1.3 Setting Up InfoServer Support

If you want to use the InfoServer utility to provide a network service for provisioning, follow the steps described in this section. To use the InfoServer utility to enable provisioning over the network, the utility must be running on an OpenVMS Alpha or OpenVMS I64 system in the same LAN as your Integrity server (or any other server that you want to provision). The utility can be running on the system that is to be provisioned. The InfoServer utility uses the TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS BOOTP server and TFTP to help boot the OpenVMS operating system. The InfoServer accesses a bootable image of OpenVMS that you store on a system in the same LAN. Follow these steps to enable the required InfoServer support for HP SIM provisioning. For more information, see Appendix B (page 189).

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