Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Search for | Example | Results |
---|---|---|
A single word | cat
|
Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Search for | Operator | Example |
---|---|---|
Two or more words in the same topic |
|
|
Either word in a topic |
|
|
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
|
|
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
|
A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
|
- OS sequence-based provisioning
- OS provisioning components
- Build customization scripts
- How the OS Build Agent locates the Build Manager
- Provisioning setup for OS sequences
- OS Provisioning setup task summary
- Setting up the Media Server
- Creating MRLs
- Media Resource Locator Administration
- Multipath SAN support for OS provisioning
- Configuring RAID on HPE ProLiant servers before OS provisioning
- Defining installation profiles and OS sequences
- OS installation profile requirements
- Oracle Solaris/Sun SPARC 10 installation profile requirements
- Red Hat Linux installation profile requirements
- VMware ESX installation profile requirements
- SUSE Linux installation profile requirements
- Microsoft Windows installation profile requirements
- Defining and managing OS installation profiles
- Modifying existing OS installation profiles
- Changing the properties of OS installation profiles
- Modifying OS installation profile packages
- Viewing the change history for an OS installation profile
- Deleting an OS installation profile
- Build customization scripts
- Solaris build customization scripts
- Linux build customization scripts
- Windows build customization scripts
- Defining custom attributes
- Creating OS sequences
- Manage Boot Clients
- Using the Manage Boot Clients option
- Running an MBC APX
- Booting a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server in a non-DHCP environment
- Booting a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Itanium 64-bit server in a non-DHCP environment using Elilo boot
- Booting a Windows Server in a non-DHCP environment
- DHCP Custom Attribute
Booting a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Itanium 64-bit server in a non-DHCP environment using Elilo boot
If you plan to use SA Provisioning in an environment without a DHCP server, you must assign static IP information for the managed server and manually configure that server to resolve the SA Core.
There are several reasons you might need to manually specify the network information for a sever being provisioned:
- You don’t use DHCP and must manually specify the static IP address the Agent’s IP and Port
- You must provision a server but DHCP is inactive.
- You must provision a server but DHCP is blocked by firewall rules.
You can export the Linux Itanium image by logging in to the SA Client and selecting
Library > By Folder > Opsware > Tools > OS Provisioning.
The images are named using the following format:
HPSA_linux_boot_cd_IA64.iso
The following section provides details for provisioning in a non-DHCP environment.
When you boot an unmanaged server in a non-DHCP environment, you will see a boot screen similar to that shown below:
HPE SA Linux Boot CD (<version):
Enter the appropriate Linux service OS
at the ‘Elilo boot:’ prompt.
linux5 - RHEL 5.7 based Linux service OS
linux5-txt - RHEL 5.7 based Linux service OS for serial consoles
ELILO boot:
After you select the boot method, you will see a Network Configuration dialogue that allows you to enter a static IP address for the server, the subnet mask, the host gateway IP address, and the IP address and default port for the SA Agent Gateway:
Red Hat Linux Itanium 64-bit network configuration dialog
If the operating system you are provisioning is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 IA64, you must add the custom attribute kernel_arguments
with the value console=ttyS1
to the OS Installation Profile.
You can manually configure the following fields:
- Interface: the NIC to be used
- IP Address: static IP address for the server being provisioned
- Netmask: netmask for the server being provisioned
- Gateway: Gateway IP address the server being provisioned should use (network level IP router)
- DNS Suffix: the fully qualified DNS suffix the server being provisioned should use
- Agent Gateway IP: the default SA Agent Gateway hostname or IP address
- Agent Gateway Port: the port used for the SA Agent Gateway
After the information in these fields is entered and applied, the server is able to register with the SA Core. You can now start the normal SA Provisioning process.
DHCP custom attribute
After provisioning, servers that have been registered with the SA Core using a static IP specification will display the hpsa_netconfig
custom attribute in the server record.
We welcome your comments!
To open the configured email client on this computer, open an email window.
Otherwise, copy the information below to a web mail client, and send this email to hpe_sa_docs@hpe.com.
Help Topic ID:
Product:
Topic Title:
Feedback: