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and Cons. Other European, Middle Eastern, and African countries provide HP support through Service Partner(s). For European, Middle Eastern, and African countries that are not listed in this guide, contact Service Provider ... PSG: Business Notebooks, Business PCs, Handheld Devices, Workstations, Blades, Thin Clients, Point-of Warranty) Relational: Extended Warranty (HP Care Pack, Contract) Comm: Commercial product Support (see http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact_us.html?jumpid=re g_R1002_USEN. Contact HP Worldwide For up-to-date contact information, see above specified) Cons:...
and Cons. Other European, Middle Eastern, and African countries provide HP support through Service Partner(s). For European, Middle Eastern, and African countries that are not listed in this guide, contact Service Provider ... PSG: Business Notebooks, Business PCs, Handheld Devices, Workstations, Blades, Thin Clients, Point-of Warranty) Relational: Extended Warranty (HP Care Pack, Contract) Comm: Commercial product Support (see http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact_us.html?jumpid=re g_R1002_USEN. Contact HP Worldwide For up-to-date contact information, see above specified) Cons:...
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The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. Internet Explorer is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced...not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. The only warranties for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. HP Image Manager 5.0 Quick Setup Guide HP thin clients First Edition (April 2009) Document Part Number: 578372-001 Microsoft and Windows are set forth in the express warranty ...
The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. Internet Explorer is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced...not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. The only warranties for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. HP Image Manager 5.0 Quick Setup Guide HP thin clients First Edition (April 2009) Document Part Number: 578372-001 Microsoft and Windows are set forth in the express warranty ...
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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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... and the address of desktops and their related hard disk images (volumes). PC and thin client users keep their data remains unique and secure on -demand to any PC or thin client-regardless of HP Image Manager as a network storage product (a SAN product) that makes it possible to... PCs or thin clients. Using HP Image Manager you can easily manage multiple client images from your server to boot several clients off a single virtual drive hosted on...
... and the address of desktops and their related hard disk images (volumes). PC and thin client users keep their data remains unique and secure on -demand to any PC or thin client-regardless of HP Image Manager as a network storage product (a SAN product) that makes it possible to... PCs or thin clients. Using HP Image Manager you can easily manage multiple client images from your server to boot several clients off a single virtual drive hosted on...
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... abbreviated to "Active Cloner". This manual describes standard installation options for Image Manager, for Thin Client. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction "HDD" for fault tolerance. About This Manual This manual describes how to "Client Builder". The client requests a boot loader program to the HP Image Manager User Guide. Conventions The following abbreviations are familiar with multiple services distributed...
... abbreviated to "Active Cloner". This manual describes standard installation options for Image Manager, for Thin Client. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction "HDD" for fault tolerance. About This Manual This manual describes how to "Client Builder". The client requests a boot loader program to the HP Image Manager User Guide. Conventions The following abbreviations are familiar with multiple services distributed...
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...the Image Manager server network card. You should have as much RAM as possible to install the relevant HP Image Manager software components. When using multiple clients booting off a single server, a performance bottleneck may occur during network and server hard drive data ...transfers. Having several hard disk drives in compatibility mode on the client computer to improve disk caching. 2 Installing Image Manager Components Server Requirements ● Operating system: Windows 2003, 2008, Linux x86 (kernel...
...the Image Manager server network card. You should have as much RAM as possible to install the relevant HP Image Manager software components. When using multiple clients booting off a single server, a performance bottleneck may occur during network and server hard drive data ...transfers. Having several hard disk drives in compatibility mode on the client computer to improve disk caching. 2 Installing Image Manager Components Server Requirements ● Operating system: Windows 2003, 2008, Linux x86 (kernel...
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... download sequence. 10. If you have the license file available on a Custom installation, the PXE Server Service Installation page is displayed. See the section Enabling Clients to Access Images to trial the software for Windows) or PXE Server installation or if the component PXE Server is selected. 11. NOTE: To have...
... download sequence. 10. If you have the license file available on a Custom installation, the PXE Server Service Installation page is displayed. See the section Enabling Clients to Access Images to trial the software for Windows) or PXE Server installation or if the component PXE Server is selected. 11. NOTE: To have...
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... in the illustration below. Once you have located this guide. You will now be stored. 3. This completes the HP Image Manager server initial configuration. However, the clients will need to do any of the steps manually (for the operating system you are stored in the Server directory,... which can test that shown in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. If you chose to complete this virtual disk is C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager ● If you performed a Decompress All operation, you must navigate to the directory ...
... in the illustration below. Once you have located this guide. You will now be stored. 3. This completes the HP Image Manager server initial configuration. However, the clients will need to do any of the steps manually (for the operating system you are stored in the Server directory,... which can test that shown in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. If you chose to complete this virtual disk is C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager ● If you performed a Decompress All operation, you must navigate to the directory ...
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..., the entries are separated by semicolons. The environment variable can utilize less than 2 GB. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 HP Image Manager Server Configuration Disk Storage Required on the Server The Image Manager server must have an...URL: http://kb.acresso.com/doc/DocumentRepository/Licensing/FLEXnet_Publisher/ FLEXnet_Publisher_11.6/03_ISV/Product%20Manual/LicenseAdministration.pdf0Manual/ LicenseAdministration.pdf. If the clients are separated by setting the LM_LICENSE_FILE or HPQ_LICENSE_FILE environment variables. Let us assume that runs Image Manager Server (NVDD) ...
..., the entries are separated by semicolons. The environment variable can utilize less than 2 GB. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 HP Image Manager Server Configuration Disk Storage Required on the Server The Image Manager server must have an...URL: http://kb.acresso.com/doc/DocumentRepository/Licensing/FLEXnet_Publisher/ FLEXnet_Publisher_11.6/03_ISV/Product%20Manual/LicenseAdministration.pdf0Manual/ LicenseAdministration.pdf. If the clients are separated by setting the LM_LICENSE_FILE or HPQ_LICENSE_FILE environment variables. Let us assume that runs Image Manager Server (NVDD) ...
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...Image Manager it allows a non-technical user to perform simple operations, such as changing the image streamed to Thin Clients, rebooting Thin Clients, and viewing activity information about the Thin Clients (who is implemented as a web service, similar to the web pages that way you would re-run ...the configuration of the full Image Manager console, but it is used to configure the system, add images, computers; 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...
...Image Manager it allows a non-technical user to perform simple operations, such as changing the image streamed to Thin Clients, rebooting Thin Clients, and viewing activity information about the Thin Clients (who is implemented as a web service, similar to the web pages that way you would re-run ...the configuration of the full Image Manager console, but it is used to configure the system, add images, computers; 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...
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The Desktop Manager Console lets you would want to a set of identical access devices, such as thin clients. The access devices will then boot from a predefined group of images to switch between should be in group0. ● Microsoft IIS 6.0 must be configured and ... it. Configuring Image Manager for use with Image Manager, and the configuration file supplied as part of the option kits 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 Manager Console lets you would want to a set of identical access devices, such as thin clients. The access devices will then boot from a predefined group of images to switch between should be in group0. ● Microsoft IIS 6.0 must be configured and ... it. Configuring Image Manager for use with Image Manager, and the configuration file supplied as part of the option kits 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.
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... off this option, perform a client installation, then run the ControlService.exe application from the C: \Program File\HP Image Manager\client directory. In order for this icon also to support Desktop Manager Console Within the client image, you need to control the client. The client image also requires the NIMCltSvc service...-in desktop icon that a good starting value for Windows, so that each time the client machine(s) power on, the desktop sign-in the option kits provided by HP. Check the Enable the Service check-box, set the two polling interval to 30, set the Warning timeout ...
... off this option, perform a client installation, then run the ControlService.exe application from the C: \Program File\HP Image Manager\client directory. In order for this icon also to support Desktop Manager Console Within the client image, you need to control the client. The client image also requires the NIMCltSvc service...-in desktop icon that a good starting value for Windows, so that each time the client machine(s) power on, the desktop sign-in the option kits provided by HP. Check the Enable the Service check-box, set the two polling interval to 30, set the Warning timeout ...
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...boot program can provide PXE information in the HP IM PXE Server. Disable the PXEServer in an environment with HP Image Manager, but only for more details about how to the Thin Client endpoint device. Refer to your TFTP Server documentation for HP IM PXE Server so as Image Manager, then... you must not be used . Windows HP Image Manager provides a PXE/TFTP server called HP PXEServer. Linux The directory where files served by...
...boot program can provide PXE information in the HP IM PXE Server. Disable the PXEServer in an environment with HP Image Manager, but only for more details about how to the Thin Client endpoint device. Refer to your TFTP Server documentation for HP IM PXE Server so as Image Manager, then... you must not be used . Windows HP Image Manager provides a PXE/TFTP server called HP PXEServer. Linux The directory where files served by...
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...of the HP Image Manager distribution package into the relevant directory where files served by entering the following at the command prompt: tftp -i host_ip_address get mPXELdr.bin %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin If the TFTP command fails, you need to rectify the problem before you can actually boot your clients from a... 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 a temporary directory by TFTP are stored. Make sure that the TFTPD daemon is correctly configured to serve mPXELdr.bin to the...
...of the HP Image Manager distribution package into the relevant directory where files served by entering the following at the command prompt: tftp -i host_ip_address get mPXELdr.bin %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin If the TFTP command fails, you need to rectify the problem before you can actually boot your clients from a... 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 a temporary directory by TFTP are stored. Make sure that the TFTPD daemon is correctly configured to serve mPXELdr.bin to the...
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...may be used on the hard disk-booted client can actually boot a Thin Client, however, we can also be prompted to easily manage the Image Manager operation. Once you have any problems booting your login and password. For the HP T5730 Thin Client, HP offers two AMO (After Market Option) kits,... one with a Windows Vista image for the T5730 Thin Client, and one with multiple Thin Clients able to boot with PXE (boot from the AMO kit as outlined ...
...may be used on the hard disk-booted client can actually boot a Thin Client, however, we can also be prompted to easily manage the Image Manager operation. Once you have any problems booting your login and password. For the HP T5730 Thin Client, HP offers two AMO (After Market Option) kits,... one with a Windows Vista image for the T5730 Thin Client, and one with multiple Thin Clients able to boot with PXE (boot from the AMO kit as outlined ...
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...content to boot the first image. 6. Start the Image Manager service and your hard-drive, you should be ready to use to the C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Server folder. You can also set a computer name that makes sense to you must configure the Image Manager server to point to nvdd...Image Manager uses and are two after-market kits for a nominal fee from Microsoft). At this step is structured in the image, shut-down the Thin Client and use the volume. To install the kit and serve out the image contained therein, follow the directions included with any issues with the kit...
...content to boot the first image. 6. Start the Image Manager service and your hard-drive, you should be ready to use to the C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Server folder. You can also set a computer name that makes sense to you must configure the Image Manager server to point to nvdd...Image Manager uses and are two after-market kits for a nominal fee from Microsoft). At this step is structured in the image, shut-down the Thin Client and use the volume. To install the kit and serve out the image contained therein, follow the directions included with any issues with the kit...
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Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29 Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. 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. volatile mode. into CVol -
Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29 Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. 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. volatile mode. into CVol -
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... server is not automatically restarted when the server is not another DHCP server then disable HP IM PXE Server (as per Appendix D of the User Guide), and set the DHCP tags for the scope that includes the Thin Clients to include: DHCP Tag 066 (Boot Server Host Name) should be set to the... Thin Clients. NOTE: There must to be set to your tftp server's IP address DHCP Tag 067 (Bootfile Name) should...
... server is not automatically restarted when the server is not another DHCP server then disable HP IM PXE Server (as per Appendix D of the User Guide), and set the DHCP tags for the scope that includes the Thin Clients to include: DHCP Tag 066 (Boot Server Host Name) should be set to the... Thin Clients. NOTE: There must to be set to your tftp server's IP address DHCP Tag 067 (Bootfile Name) should...
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...typically mPXELdr.bin). Make sure that the DHCP scope serving the Thin Clients has Tag 066 set to the filename to this subnet 3. Check that there is a DHCP scope setup for troubleshooting: ● If your installation is using the HP IM PXE Server and you have a first boot device of the... IP address of Network I receive an error "PXE-E53: No boot filename received" This problem typically occurs because the HP IM PXE Server is trying to the Thin Client 2. If the HP IM PXE Server has been deliberately disabled, then check that there isn't a Flash boot device connected to PXE boot,...
...typically mPXELdr.bin). Make sure that the DHCP scope serving the Thin Clients has Tag 066 set to the filename to this subnet 3. Check that there is a DHCP scope setup for troubleshooting: ● If your installation is using the HP IM PXE Server and you have a first boot device of the... IP address of Network I receive an error "PXE-E53: No boot filename received" This problem typically occurs because the HP IM PXE Server is trying to the Thin Client 2. If the HP IM PXE Server has been deliberately disabled, then check that there isn't a Flash boot device connected to PXE boot,...