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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 View the Contents of the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant State File
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant State File Variable List
Considerations for Creating a State File
Sample Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant State File for Linux
Sample Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant State File for Windows
Sample Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant State File for Firmware Updates
How to Create an Unattended Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant State File
How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Linux
How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Windows Server
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
Note - Your server must support firmware updates through the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application to use the firmware upgrade option.
You can use PXE to launch the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application and perform an unattended system firmware update on your Sun Fire and Sun Blade servers, and you can choose to perform other provisioning tasks such as system BIOS and Oracle ILOM upgrade, HBA firmware, and SP recovery.
If you enable an unattended firmware update and an update is not required on the target server, the unattended install stops, prompting for user intervention to continue.
To avoid an interruption of the update process, confirm that the firmware image you are using for the update is newer than what is already on the target server(s). The firmware version (build number) of the update image is included in the README file. The firmware version (build number) on a target server can be viewed by logging into the service processor and viewing the information through the Oracle ILOM web interface, or by entering the version command at the CLI prompt.
The Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant state file is a text file that directs the unattended installation of the firmware update.
Next Steps
How to Create the Application Image and Prepare for a PXE-Based Launch