HP Integrity rx2600 Headless Windows - Page 3

installation of servers in racks. Console switches with remote viewing capabilities do not present the same high resolution GUI that is available through Remote Desktop. Remote desktop also provides a more responsive mouse input experience. These remote view console switches also require user authentication management which further complicates systems that are being installed or repartitioned. For future systems there may be many fine-grained partitions which require careful allocation of IO slots. Avoiding the consumption of slots for non-critical use such as graphics will ease the deployment of future systems. Customers should start to deploy and operate systems using headless methods. How Do I Access a Headless System? Users have full access to the GUI of a system through the use of Remote Desktop. From any client PC on the network, running the Terminal Services Client (mstsc.exe) will present a complete, high performance GUI of the system's graphical console. All GUI based interaction is exactly the same as if the user was seated at a physical keyboard, monitor, and mouse directly attached to the system. The user has full access to the system's EFI command prompt, boot loader, and OS command prompt by connecting to its service processor via telnet. On mid-range systems, a terminal emulator can be launched from any web browser connected to the service processor. On entry level systems, the user can also connect directly to the service processor via the Integrity iLo web interface, or, if the Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack is installed, through SSH. Console Definitions When you see a document use the name 'console', it can refer to many different things and that can lead to confusion. It can mean anything from a serial port connection into a management processor's command line interface, to the default GUI interface to a Windows system, or many possibilities in between. In-band vs. Out-of-band Connections to a system are referred to as either in-band or out-of-band. An in-band connection is one that is under the control of the OS and the port is visible in the Windows Device Manager. Examples of this are a telnet connection to a network interface, a remote desktop GUI session, or a terminal connected to a serial port that is assigned a COMx name in device manager. An out-of-band connection is one that is not visible to the user of the OS. An example is a connection to the network port or serial port of the management processor. These ports do not appear in the Windows device manager and are not controlled by a Windows device driver. Remote Desktop Windows provides complete remote GUI access through the Remote Desktop. Remote Desktop uses the same tools and software as Terminal Services but without the requirement of setting up a complete license server. A license for two connections to the Administrator account is included. When a system is running and healthy, this is the primary and preferred method for interaction with a system. Remote Desktop provides access to all of the familiar GUI tools. It is also very high performance and gives a very good user experience compared to other remote GUI access methods.