HP Xw460c HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation - Administrator's Guide for Lin - Page 3

Contents 1 Introduction 1-1 Blade workstation solution documents 7 1-2 Purchasing and downloading RHEL 4 8 1-3 Downloading the HP Installer Kit for Linux 10 1-4 Obtaining HP technical support ...10 1-5 Differences between the HP ProLiant BL460c Server Blade and the HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation 10 2 Hardware Support Matrix 3 Blade workstation video subsystem 3-1 Setting Remote Console Mode ...13 3-2 Admin Mode...14 3-3 Setup Mode ...15 3-4 User Mode...16 4 Installing and powering on the blade workstation 4-1 Setting up your client computer ...18 4-2 Installing and turning on the blade workstation 18 4-2-1 Preparing the blade workstation infrastructure 18 4-2-2 Configuring the blade workstation hardware 20 4-2-3 Methods to connect media to the blade workstation 20 4-2-4 Powering on the blade workstation 21 5 Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 5 5-1 Pre-installation preparation...22 5-2 Pre-installation setup ...23 5-3 Installing RHEL 4 ...29 5-4 Optional: Installing the HP iLO 2 High-Performance Mouse for Linux 37 5-5 Installing the HPIKL CD ...39 5-6 Post-installation verification and modifications 41 5-7 Rebooting the blade workstation ...44 5-8 Establishing an RGS connection...44 6 Managing the blade workstation 6-1 Onboard Administrator...46 6-2 Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) ...48 6-2-1 Accessing iLO 2...48 6-2-2 iLO 2 Remote Console ...50 6-2-3 Viewing the Linux console 51 6-2-4 iLO 2 virtual media ...52 6-3 HP Insight Diagnostics ...53 6-3-1 Key features and benefits ...53 6-3-2 Theory of operation ...53 6-3-3 Accessing HP Insight Diagnostics 53 6-3-4 Survey tab...53 6-3-5 Test tab...54 6-3-6 Status tab...54 6-3-7 Log tab ...55 6-3-8 Help tab ...55 6-3-9 Saving and printing information in HP Insight Diagnostics 55 6-3-10 Downloading the latest version of HP Insight Diagnostics 56 6-4 ROM-Based Setup Utility ...56 6-5 Power-on self-test...56 6-6 BIOS Serial Console...56 Contents 3