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3 Advanced topics Creating an Intelligent Provisioning update mirror Use an Intelligent Provisioning update mirror to access software and firmware delivered through SPP from a server within your local network, increasing the speed of updates. NOTE: This method only works with complete SPPs. If you added or removed components from the SPP, use HP SUM to deploy the SPP. For more information, see the HP Service Pack for ProLiant User Guide on the HP website: http://www.hp.com/support/SPP_UG_en The mirror requires a web server running on a server with any operating system capable of serving files over FTP or HTTP. To create an Intelligent Provisioning update mirror for an SPP: 1. Download the SPP and copy the files to your web server: a. Download the SPP version or bundle from the HP website: http://www.hp.com/go/spp/download b. Extract the .iso file from the archive (.zip) file. c. Mount the SPP ISO and copy the contents to your web server. The following example uses UNIX commands and assumes that the web server is serving the files from /srv/ www/spp-version1. On Windows, you can use a utility to mount the ISO and then copy the files with Windows Explorer. # mkdir -p sppmount # mount -o loop SPP2011.09.0.iso sppmount # mkdir -p /srv/www/spp-version1 # cp -r ./sppmount/. /srv/www/spp-version1 # umount sppmount # rmdir sppmount 2. If you want to host the IP software on the mirror, download the latest version of Intelligent Provisioning and copy the files to your web server: a. Navigate to the HP website: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1048499843 b. From the newest folder, download the following files: • Gaius.img.gz • Vid.img.gz • Hp_manifest.zip c. Copy the files to your web server. # cp gaius.img.gz /srv/www/ipupdate-1.00 # cp vid.img.gz /srv/www/ipupdate-1.00 # unzip -d /srv/www/ipupdate-1.00 hp_manifest.zip Creating an Intelligent Provisioning update mirror 31

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3 Advanced topics
Creating an Intelligent Provisioning update mirror
Use an Intelligent Provisioning update mirror to access software and firmware delivered through
SPP from a server within your local network, increasing the speed of updates.
NOTE:
This method only works with complete SPPs. If you added or removed components from
the SPP, use HP SUM to deploy the SPP. For more information, see the
HP Service Pack for ProLiant
User Guide
on the HP website:
h
t
tp://w
w
w
.hp
.co
m/su
ppo
r
t/SP
P_UG_e
n
The mirror requires a web server running on a server with any operating system capable of serving
files over FTP or HTTP.
To create an Intelligent Provisioning update mirror for an SPP:
1.
Download the SPP and copy the files to your web server:
a.
Download the SPP version or bundle from the HP website:
h
t
tp://w
w
w
.hp
.co
m/go/s
pp/do
w
nload
b.
Extract the
.iso
file from the archive (
.zip)
file.
c.
Mount the SPP ISO and copy the contents to your web server. The following example
uses UNIX commands and assumes that the web server is serving the files from
/srv/
www/spp-version1
. On Windows, you can use a utility to mount the ISO and then
copy the files with Windows Explorer.
# mkdir -p sppmount
# mount -o loop SPP2011.09.0.iso sppmount
# mkdir -p /srv/www/spp-version1
# cp -r ./sppmount/. /srv/www/spp-version1
# umount sppmount
# rmdir sppmount
2.
If you want to host the IP software on the mirror, download the latest version of Intelligent
Provisioning and copy the files to your web server:
a.
Navigate to the HP website:
b.
From the newest folder, download the following files:
•
Gaius.img.gz
•
Vid.img.gz
•
Hp_manifest.zip
c.
Copy the files to your web server.
# cp gaius.img.gz /srv/www/ipupdate-1.00
# cp vid.img.gz /srv/www/ipupdate-1.00
# unzip -d /srv/www/ipupdate-1.00 hp_manifest.zip
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