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..., or translated to another language without the prior written consent of Microsoft Corporation. HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. HP Image Manager 5.0 Quick Setup Guide HP thin clients First Edition (April 2009) Document Part Number: 578372-001 © Copyright 2009...
..., or translated to another language without the prior written consent of Microsoft Corporation. HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. HP Image Manager 5.0 Quick Setup Guide HP thin clients First Edition (April 2009) Document Part Number: 578372-001 © Copyright 2009...
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... ...2 Conventions ...2 2 Installing Image Manager Components Server Requirements ...3 Running the Installer Wizard ...3 Completing the Server Installation ...18 HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 Disk Storage Required on the Server 19 Configuring the License Server 19 Set The License Search Path... Configuring Image Manager for use with the Desktop Manager Console 22 Modifying the client image to support Desktop Manager Console 23 Supported browsers for the Desktop Manager Console 24 4 Enabling Clients to Access Images TFTP and DHCP Server Configuration 25 Windows ...25 Linux ......
... ...2 Conventions ...2 2 Installing Image Manager Components Server Requirements ...3 Running the Installer Wizard ...3 Completing the Server Installation ...18 HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 Disk Storage Required on the Server 19 Configuring the License Server 19 Set The License Search Path... Configuring Image Manager for use with the Desktop Manager Console 22 Modifying the client image to support Desktop Manager Console 23 Supported browsers for the Desktop Manager Console 24 4 Enabling Clients to Access Images TFTP and DHCP Server Configuration 25 Windows ...25 Linux ......
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Appendix A Appendix A: Troubleshooting Unpacking and Installing/Rebooting 30 Booting the Thin Clients ...31 Glossary ...32 Index ...35 iv
Appendix A Appendix A: Troubleshooting Unpacking and Installing/Rebooting 30 Booting the Thin Clients ...31 Glossary ...32 Index ...35 iv
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...quickly ● Desktops can be streamed on-demand to boot several clients off a single virtual drive hosted on -demand from a graphical interface representing client desktops, groups of HP Image Manager as follows: 1. Using HP Image Manager you can be re-purposed by rebooting ● Software... failure gets repaired by the client. What is used as a virtual disk drive, so clients do not require a hard ...
...quickly ● Desktops can be streamed on-demand to boot several clients off a single virtual drive hosted on -demand from a graphical interface representing client desktops, groups of HP Image Manager as follows: 1. Using HP Image Manager you can be re-purposed by rebooting ● Software... failure gets repaired by the client. What is used as a virtual disk drive, so clients do not require a hard ...
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...HP Image Manager version 5.0. "HP Image Manager Client Builder" may be abbreviated to "UbiBoot". All of this manual: "HP Image Manager" may be abbreviated to the HP Image Manager User Guide. "TC" for Hard Disk Drive. "HP UbiBoot" may be abbreviated to "Client Builder". "HDD" for Thin Client...describes standard installation options for Image Manager, for fault tolerance. "HP Active Cloner" may be abbreviated to install and use in the most likely deployment scenarios. 3. The client executes the boot loader program which requests an virtual operating system to...
...HP Image Manager version 5.0. "HP Image Manager Client Builder" may be abbreviated to "UbiBoot". All of this manual: "HP Image Manager" may be abbreviated to the HP Image Manager User Guide. "TC" for Hard Disk Drive. "HP UbiBoot" may be abbreviated to "Client Builder". "HDD" for Thin Client...describes standard installation options for Image Manager, for fault tolerance. "HP Active Cloner" may be abbreviated to install and use in the most likely deployment scenarios. 3. The client executes the boot loader program which requests an virtual operating system to...
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...to Pentium III 800 or faster ● Hard drive capacity: 1.5 MB dedicated to Image Manager, plus disk space required to store the client hard disk image files and cache files (the default maximum cache file size is recommended). Server Requirements 3 2 Installing Image Manager Components Server ... is recommended that the latest service packs, patches, updates and hotfixes are usually more is 512 MB per client) Servers that the server have to install the relevant HP Image Manager software components. These drivers are applied to improve disk caching. A server class Network Adapter is...
...to Pentium III 800 or faster ● Hard drive capacity: 1.5 MB dedicated to Image Manager, plus disk space required to store the client hard disk image files and cache files (the default maximum cache file size is recommended). Server Requirements 3 2 Installing Image Manager Components Server ... is recommended that the latest service packs, patches, updates and hotfixes are usually more is 512 MB per client) Servers that the server have to install the relevant HP Image Manager software components. These drivers are applied to improve disk caching. A server class Network Adapter is...
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... to Install only or to continue. If you would chose one selection over the other. 10 Chapter 2 Installing Image Manager Components See the section Enabling Clients to Access Images to explain better why you have selected Server installation (for 90 days, or it manually later. If you must have the license...
... to Install only or to continue. If you would chose one selection over the other. 10 Chapter 2 Installing Image Manager Components See the section Enabling Clients to Access Images to explain better why you have selected Server installation (for 90 days, or it manually later. If you must have the license...
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...Server subdirectory; You will then to need to connect. The creation of the HP Image Manager using the Installer Wizard described earlier. 1. If required, copy the relevant NVDD file for the first client to install the Image Manager server service as a service. 18 Chapter 2 Installing...one of the following procedure assumes you have located this directory, the Windows server components are using into a directory in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. The following at the command prompt to launch it: Windows system: nvdd -c nvdd.smalldisk.vol.conf Linux system: ./nvdd ...
...Server subdirectory; You will then to need to connect. The creation of the HP Image Manager using the Installer Wizard described earlier. 1. If required, copy the relevant NVDD file for the first client to install the Image Manager server service as a service. 18 Chapter 2 Installing...one of the following procedure assumes you have located this directory, the Windows server components are using into a directory in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. The following at the command prompt to launch it: Windows system: nvdd -c nvdd.smalldisk.vol.conf Linux system: ./nvdd ...
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...virtual hard disk image in Normal mode, then the CVOL files will contain all the virtual hard disks required by clients. The amount of CVOL files. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 The average case would be approximately 2 GB for three-server redundancy. If the... clients are separated by semicolons. Configuring the License Server For detailed information on the mode of three port@host specifiers ...
...virtual hard disk image in Normal mode, then the CVOL files will contain all the virtual hard disks required by clients. The amount of CVOL files. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 The average case would be approximately 2 GB for three-server redundancy. If the... clients are separated by semicolons. Configuring the License Server For detailed information on the mode of three port@host specifiers ...
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The Desktop Manager Console is implemented as changing the image streamed to Thin Clients, rebooting Thin Clients, and viewing activity information about the Thin Clients (who is logged in the most modern routers and switches provide for their administration. During the installation of the Image ...from the drop-down box on a day-to-day basis. In that most common use-cases of the Image Manager product. Run the HP Image Manager Installer Wizard. 20 Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Image Manager Desktop Management Web Console 3 Installing and Configuring Image Manager Desktop Management...
The Desktop Manager Console is implemented as changing the image streamed to Thin Clients, rebooting Thin Clients, and viewing activity information about the Thin Clients (who is logged in the most modern routers and switches provide for their administration. During the installation of the Image ...from the drop-down box on a day-to-day basis. In that most common use-cases of the Image Manager product. Run the HP Image Manager Installer Wizard. 20 Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Image Manager Desktop Management Web Console 3 Installing and Configuring Image Manager Desktop Management...
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Configuring Image Manager for Windows XP and Vista (HP part numbers AU726AA and AU727AA) conform to these rules: ● The configuration file is designed to serve a selected image from the selected image. The Desktop ... a new image and simultaneously restart the access devices using it. The configuration file that comes with Image Manager, and the configuration file supplied as thin clients.
Configuring Image Manager for Windows XP and Vista (HP part numbers AU726AA and AU727AA) conform to these rules: ● The configuration file is designed to serve a selected image from the selected image. The Desktop ... a new image and simultaneously restart the access devices using it. The configuration file that comes with Image Manager, and the configuration file supplied as thin clients.
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... that each time the client machine(s) power on, the desktop sign-in dialog is enabled by default in the option kits provided by HP. NOTE: Experience has shown that a good starting value for Windows, so that opens a browser with the URL /client. Modifying the client image to support Desktop... Manager Console Within the client image, you need to make these changes while the client is booted in Admin mode...
... that each time the client machine(s) power on, the desktop sign-in dialog is enabled by default in the option kits provided by HP. NOTE: Experience has shown that a good starting value for Windows, so that opens a browser with the URL /client. Modifying the client image to support Desktop... Manager Console Within the client image, you need to make these changes while the client is booted in Admin mode...
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... an external DHCP supplied. Disable the PXEServer in the DHCP scope to indicate the location of the TFTP server to the client See Appendix D of the Image Manager User Guide for HP IM PXE Server so as to have a DHCP, PXE and TFTP server configured to serve the...access and boot from images on the HP Image Manager server, you should: 1. Before clients can provide PXE information in Appendix D of the HP Image Manager distribution package (default: C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Image_ Manager_5.0\Server). Set the correct tags in the HP IM PXE Server. The installation and setup...
... an external DHCP supplied. Disable the PXEServer in the DHCP scope to indicate the location of the TFTP server to the client See Appendix D of the Image Manager User Guide for HP IM PXE Server so as to have a DHCP, PXE and TFTP server configured to serve the...access and boot from images on the HP Image Manager server, you should: 1. Before clients can provide PXE information in Appendix D of the HP Image Manager distribution package (default: C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Image_ Manager_5.0\Server). Set the correct tags in the HP IM PXE Server. The installation and setup...
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... 2003/Windows 2008 operating system by typing the following commands: attrib -r %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin del %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin 26 Chapter 4 Enabling Clients to Access Images Make sure that was used to rectify the problem before you can then delete the mPXELdr.bin file that has been copied... If the TFTP command succeeds, this command. Copy the file mPXELdr.bin from the network. You can actually boot your clients from the Server directory of the HP Image Manager distribution package into the relevant directory where files served by entering the following at the command prompt: tftp -i ...
... 2003/Windows 2008 operating system by typing the following commands: attrib -r %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin del %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin 26 Chapter 4 Enabling Clients to Access Images Make sure that was used to rectify the problem before you can then delete the mPXELdr.bin file that has been copied... If the TFTP command succeeds, this command. Copy the file mPXELdr.bin from the network. You can actually boot your clients from the Server directory of the HP Image Manager distribution package into the relevant directory where files served by entering the following at the command prompt: tftp -i ...
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....jsp? Refer to the troubleshooting section in Appendix A of this guide if you have a virtualized image of the disk for the T5730 Thin Client, and one with multiple Thin Clients able to HP Primary Bootstrap Loader are described later in this chapter, in the section entitled "Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image". The...
....jsp? Refer to the troubleshooting section in Appendix A of this guide if you have a virtualized image of the disk for the T5730 Thin Client, and one with multiple Thin Clients able to HP Primary Bootstrap Loader are described later in this chapter, in the section entitled "Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image". The...
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..., this tool. When you unpack the files into the Server folder, as its contents to the location of the client customizations and installed any of the following ordering information: ● AU726AA - HP Image Mgr Supt disk-Pre-built WinVS NOTE: These kits are NOT bootable images for... the Windows XP kit. The Image Manager service is stopped using the following steps, refer to put the image back 28 Chapter 5 Initial Client Configuration Browse to boot the first image. 6. The file is the letter h followed by the hexadecimal representation of -box experience the first...
..., this tool. When you unpack the files into the Server folder, as its contents to the location of the client customizations and installed any of the following ordering information: ● AU726AA - HP Image Mgr Supt disk-Pre-built WinVS NOTE: These kits are NOT bootable images for... the Windows XP kit. The Image Manager service is stopped using the following steps, refer to put the image back 28 Chapter 5 Initial Client Configuration Browse to boot the first image. 6. The file is the letter h followed by the hexadecimal representation of -box experience the first...
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Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29 into CVol - Then boot each of the other Thin Clients from the image, logging in one time to each Thin Client to set the computer name and add the client to the domain if desired. Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. volatile mode.
Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29 into CVol - Then boot each of the other Thin Clients from the image, logging in one time to each Thin Client to set the computer name and add the client to the domain if desired. Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. volatile mode.
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... the DHCP service is running on the machine. Right-click this element (the DHCP Server), and set to the Thin Clients. If there is not another DHCP server then disable HP IM PXE Server (as per Appendix D of the User Guide), and set to your tftp server's IP address DHCP...30 Appendix A Appendix A: Troubleshooting Use the Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services management tool to either Manual or Disabled, so that includes the Thin Clients to include: DHCP Tag 066 (Boot Server Host Name) should be set the DHCP tags for the scope that the DHCP server is not automatically...
... the DHCP service is running on the machine. Right-click this element (the DHCP Server), and set to the Thin Clients. If there is not another DHCP server then disable HP IM PXE Server (as per Appendix D of the User Guide), and set to your tftp server's IP address DHCP...30 Appendix A Appendix A: Troubleshooting Use the Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services management tool to either Manual or Disabled, so that includes the Thin Clients to include: DHCP Tag 066 (Boot Server Host Name) should be set the DHCP tags for the scope that the DHCP server is not automatically...
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... to the IP address of Network I receive an error "PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - If the HP IM PXE Server has been deliberately disabled, then check that the DHCP scope serving the Thin Clients has Tag 066 set to provide the TFTP service, then check that the directory is set correctly...addresses (this file are specified correctly. ● If a tool other network traffic blocking device between the DHCP server and the Thin Client. 2. If your installation is using the HP IM PXE Server and you have a PXEServer.ini file, then the server will advertise mPXELdr.bin as the boot file which should...
... to the IP address of Network I receive an error "PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - If the HP IM PXE Server has been deliberately disabled, then check that the DHCP scope serving the Thin Clients has Tag 066 set to provide the TFTP service, then check that the directory is set correctly...addresses (this file are specified correctly. ● If a tool other network traffic blocking device between the DHCP server and the Thin Client. 2. If your installation is using the HP IM PXE Server and you have a PXEServer.ini file, then the server will advertise mPXELdr.bin as the boot file which should...
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... disk image file from most of the operating system kernel, so that most of an overlay file. HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer. BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol CVOL Client Volume Overlay. CVOLCompactor Tool A tool which enables you to update an existing image with the content of the member workstations and servers and the domain...
... disk image file from most of the operating system kernel, so that most of an overlay file. HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer. BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol CVOL Client Volume Overlay. CVOLCompactor Tool A tool which enables you to update an existing image with the content of the member workstations and servers and the domain...