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Hardware Installation

Determining Your Server Management Strategy

Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager

Oracle Hardware Management Pack

Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant

Operating System Installation

Administration, Diagnostics, and Service

Index

Determining Your Server Management Strategy

With your Oracle x86 server, you have three single-server management options available. They are:

Each of these server management options has unique capabilities, but some of the functions of the tools overlap. Each of these software options is freely available and can be used together.

This section includes information to help you evaluate the single-server management solution that best fits your server environment and the management tasks that you can perform. It also provides information on how to access the software and documentation.

The following table gives examples of common server management tasks that you can perform with the available single-server management software.

Task
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager
Oracle Hardware Management Pack
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
Update BIOS or Oracle ILOM firmware
Yes
No
Yes
Configure Oracle ILOM
Yes
Yes
Yes
Install Linux or Windows operating system and drivers
No
No
Yes
Monitor hardware components
Yes
Yes
No
Configure RAID
No
Yes
Yes
Update HBA and expander firmware
No
Yes
Yes
Power on or off the server remotely
Yes
No
No