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Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant 2.5 User's Guide for x86 Servers |
Overview of the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant User's Guide
Getting Started With Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
What is Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant?
Supported Provisioning Tasks List
Launching the Application and Performing Provisioning Tasks
Local and Remote Media Launch Options for Sun Fire and Sun Blade Servers
How to Perform Provisioning Tasks
How to Install Windows Using Local or Remote Media
How to Install Linux Using Local or Remote Media
Updating System and Component Firmware
How to Update the System BIOS and Oracle ILOM Firmware
How to Update Expander Firmware
Recovering a Service Processor
How to Recover a Service Processor
Configuring Service Processor Settings
How to Configure Service Processor Identification Information Settings
How to Configure Network Information Settings
How to Manage Oracle ILOM User Accounts
Configuring BIOS Boot Device Settings
How to Set the Boot Device Order
How to Set the Boot Device for the Next Boot
Setting Up PXE-Based Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
How to Set Up the PXE Infrastructure
Preparing the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant PXE Image Files
Launching an Attended PXE-Based Session
Attended PXE-Based Session Overview
How to Create the Image for a PXE-Based Session
How to Launch an Attended Installation From a PXE Server
Performing Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks
Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks Requirements
Creating a State File for Unattended Installation
How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Linux
How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Windows Server
How to Prepare for an Unattended Firmware Update
How to Create the Application Image and Prepare for a PXE-Based Launch
How to Launch an Unattended Session From a PXE-Based Server
Observing Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks
Establishing a Viewing Connection Using a Virtual Console or Secure Shell (SSH) Connection
How to Set Up Root and VNC Passwords
How to Establish a Connection Using a VNC Viewer
How to Establish a Connection Using a Serial Console
Troubleshooting Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
No Driver Found Message Appears During Oracle VM 2.2.1 Server Installation
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Can Go Into a Loop at Last OS Install Screen
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Error Messages
How to View the Application Log File
How to Debug a PXE Image That Does Not Boot
Launching Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Using a USB Flash Drive
How to Get the Syslinux and Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Software
Creating an Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant USB Flash Drive
How to Boot the USB Flash Drive and Launch Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
How to Install Service Tags in Linux
The features and benefits of the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application version 2.5:
Supports multiple boot media options. Launch the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application from either a local drive attached to the server (CD/DVD or USB flash drive), a remote redirected network drive (virtual CD/DVD drive or ISO image), or an image available on your PXE network environment.
Provides Oracle-certified server- and configuration-specific device drivers for optional accessory cards and other system hardware.
Eliminates the need to obtain and prepare OS-level device drivers on separate media before installing the OS.
Assists in OS installation for Oracle VM and supported versions of Windows and Linux (Oracle, SLES and RHEL) operating systems.
Note - A licensed retail version of the OS software is required for the installation. The Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application does not provide the OS software.
Supports OS installation on hard disk, solid state disk, or compact flash.
Supports unattended OS installation and firmware update tasks using PXE-based Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant.
Supports autorun (Windows client only) allowing you to perform additional tasks outside of the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant environment (version 2.4 and later).
Assists in RAID configuration for servers that contain an integrated LSI disk controller. Support is for RAID 0 and RAID 1 integrated mirror or integrated mirror enhanced (striping). Assisted RAID 1 configuration is also available (beginning with Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant 2.4) for LSI SAS-2 controllers (926x, 9280).
Provides an Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application update option, allowing you to maintain the latest version of the application.
Update from the Oracle download site to ensure your session has the latest drivers and firmware.
Provides a specific set of service processor and Oracle ILOM configuration capabilities.
Enables management of Oracle ILOM user account settings and configuration of network settings, system clock, and system identification information.
Allows BIOS-level boot device priority configuration and next boot device selection.
Contains firmware update capabilities for:
System BIOS and Oracle ILOM firmware
HBA firmware
Expander firmware
Management and troubleshooting capabilities:
Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.1 contains Management Agents, Sun Server Hardware SNMP plug-ins, and CLI Tools. These components provide flexible in-band management to monitor and to configure your Sun Fires Server and Blade module's hardware.
For Oracle Hardware Management Pack documentation, go to: http://www.oracle.com/goto/OHMP/docs
For information about Oracle Hardware Management Pack, see the System Management product page at: http://www.oracle.com/goto/system-management.
Includes recovery capability for a non-functioning (corrupt or inaccessible) service processor. This feature is server-specific.
Creates an Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant session event log to facilitate troubleshooting.
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