HP ProLiant Firmware Maintenance CD User Guide

• HP ProLiant Firmware Maintenance CD User Guide
• Navigation tips
• Notices
• Introduction
  • HP ProLiant Firmware Maintenance CD overview
  • Minimum requirements
  • Obtaining the Firmware HP ProLiant Maintenance CD
  • Deployment options
    • Online deployment
    • Offline deployment
    • HP USB key utility
    • Deployment of components not on Firmware Maintenance CD
  • Trusted Platform Module
    • TPM scenarios
• Firmware Maintenance CD powered by HP Smart Update Manager
  • Deployment scenarios
    • Graphical deployment on a local host
    • Scripted deployment on a local host
    • Deployment to multiple remote hosts
  • Keyboard support
  • First time execution
    • Selecting an installation host for the first time
    • Selecting components to install for the first time
  • Local host installations using the GUI
    • Selecting an installation host
    • Selecting components to install
      • Status field
      • Reboot section
      • Component selection pane
      • Installation options
    • Viewing the installation results
  • Multiple-host installations using the GUI
    • Selecting remote hosts or groups
      • Managing hosts
      • Managing groups
      • Entering credentials for hosts
    • Selecting components to install on multiple hosts
    • Viewing the installation results for multiple hosts
• Scripted deployment
  • Command line interface
    • Command line syntax
    • Command line arguments
    • Component configuration for Windows components only
    • Command line examples
    • HP Smart Update Manager return codes
      • Windows smart component return codes
      • Linux smart component return codes
• Advanced topics
  • Deploying firmware and software simultaneously
  • Server virtualization detection and support
  • Configuring IPv6 networks with HP Smart Update Manager
    • Configuring IPv6 for Windows Server 2003
    • Configuring IPv6 for Windows Server 2008
      • Limitations of IPv6 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008
    • Configuring IPv6 for Linux
      • Limitations of IPv6 for Linux
• Troubleshooting
  • Recovering from a failed ROM upgrade
    • Recovering from a failed system ROM upgrade
      • Redundant ROM recovery
      • ROMPaq recovery
    • Recovering from a failed option ROM upgrade
      • Array controller ROMs
      • Lights-Out management ROMs
  • Recovering from an installation failure
    • Collecting trace directories
  • Recovering from a loss of Linux remote functionality
    • Configuring firewall settings
  • Recovering from a blocked program on Microsoft Windows
    • Configuring Windows firewall settings
    • Enabling ports in HP Smart Update Manager
  • Recovering from operating system limitations when using a Japanese character set
    • Displaying the user-specified reboot message using a Japanese character set when running on a Linux operating system
    • Rebooting with the user-specified reboot message using a Japanese character set when running on a Windows operating system
  • Recovering from Fatal Error - application will exit message
    • Running in a directory path containing double-byte characters
  • Recovering from a missing reboot message when running on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
    • Running HP Smart Update Manager on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
  • Recovering a lost HP Smart Update Manager connection
    • Mounting the Firmware Maintenance CD on virtual media
  • Troubleshooting HP Smart Update Manager in IPv6 networks
    • Troubleshooting HP Smart Update Manager in IPv6 Windows Server 2003 environment
    • Troubleshooting HP Smart Update Manager in IPv6 Windows Server 2008 environment
    • Troubleshooting HP Smart Update Manager in IPv6 Red Hat and Novell SUSE-based Linux environments
• Technical support
  • Reference documentation
  • Operating system information
  • HP contact information
• Acronyms and abbreviations
  • GUI
  • HBA
  • HPSUM
  • I/O
  • iLO
  • iLO 2
  • NIC
  • POST
  • PSP
  • RBSU
  • RILOE II
  • SAN
  • SAS
  • SCSI
  • SOAP
  • SSH
  • SSL
  • WMI