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...European, Middle Eastern, and African countries that are not listed in this guide, contact Service Provider for local support. Contact HP Worldwide For up-to-date contact information, see above specified) Cons: Consumer IPG & PSG Product Support Some Middle Eastern...and African countries provide HP support through Service Partner(s). Definitions Commercial 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/...
...European, Middle Eastern, and African countries that are not listed in this guide, contact Service Provider for local support. Contact HP Worldwide For up-to-date contact information, see above specified) Cons: Consumer IPG & PSG Product Support Some Middle Eastern...and African countries provide HP support through Service Partner(s). Definitions Commercial 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/...
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... in the United States and/or other countries. Pentium is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. © Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Internet Explorer is subject to change without notice.... No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced, or translated to change without notice. HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP Image Manager 5.0 Quick Setup Guide HP thin clients First Edition (April 2009) Document Part Number: 578372-001
... in the United States and/or other countries. Pentium is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. © Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Internet Explorer is subject to change without notice.... No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced, or translated to change without notice. HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP Image Manager 5.0 Quick Setup Guide HP thin clients First Edition (April 2009) Document Part Number: 578372-001
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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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... disk images (volumes). their personal configurations and settings; Using HP Image Manager you can think of HP Image Manager as a network storage product (a SAN product) that makes it possible to PCs or thin clients. HP Image Manager delivers operating systems and applications on the server. ...The server is HP Image Manager? 1 Introduction What is used as a virtual disk drive, so clients do not require a hard disk or flash memory. A...
... disk images (volumes). their personal configurations and settings; Using HP Image Manager you can think of HP Image Manager as a network storage product (a SAN product) that makes it possible to PCs or thin clients. HP Image Manager delivers operating systems and applications on the server. ...The server is HP Image Manager? 1 Introduction What is used as a virtual disk drive, so clients do not require a hard disk or flash memory. A...
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... may be abbreviated to "Image Manager server" or "NVDD server". "HDD" for Thin Client. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction This manual describes standard installation options for Image Manager, for use HP Image Manager version 5.0. "HP Active Cloner" may be abbreviated to "Image Manager Console" or just "the Console".... manual describes how to be abbreviated to the HP Image Manager User Guide. It assumes that you should refer to "Active Cloner". "HP Image Manager Server" may be abbreviated to be abbreviated to "Client Builder". The client requests a boot loader program to install and ...
... may be abbreviated to "Image Manager server" or "NVDD server". "HDD" for Thin Client. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction This manual describes standard installation options for Image Manager, for use HP Image Manager version 5.0. "HP Active Cloner" may be abbreviated to "Image Manager Console" or just "the Console".... manual describes how to be abbreviated to the HP Image Manager User Guide. It assumes that you should refer to "Active Cloner". "HP Image Manager Server" may be abbreviated to be abbreviated to "Client Builder". The client requests a boot loader program to install and ...
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... and that the latest service packs, patches, updates and hotfixes are usually available from the NIC manufacturer's web site. When using multiple clients booting off a single server, a performance bottleneck may occur during network and server hard drive data transfers. Running the Installer Wizard You ...plus disk space required to improve disk caching. Having several hard disk drives in the server, which are applied to install the relevant HP Image Manager software components. Server Requirements 3 A server class Network Adapter is recommended for the NICs in the server can also help ...
... and that the latest service packs, patches, updates and hotfixes are usually available from the NIC manufacturer's web site. When using multiple clients booting off a single server, a performance bottleneck may occur during network and server hard drive data transfers. Running the Installer Wizard You ...plus disk space required to improve disk caching. Having several hard disk drives in the server, which are applied to install the relevant HP Image Manager software components. Server Requirements 3 A server class Network Adapter is recommended for the NICs in the server can also help ...
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... it manually later. 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 continue. This page is not displayed if Decompress All is selected on your server. Choose to Install only or to trial...
... it manually later. 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 continue. This page is not displayed if Decompress All is selected on your server. Choose to Install only or to trial...
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... Installer Wizard described earlier. 1. Completing the Server Installation If you chose to the directory containing NVDD then typing one of the HP Image Manager using . However, the clients will need a virtual disk from the Server directory to that the NVDD server module is covered in the chapter Initial... have an existing FLEXnet server), you decompressed the software. The server will need to do any of the steps manually (for the first client to complete this guide. If required, copy the files SmallDisk.vol and nvdd.smalldisk.vol.conf from which you will now be stored. ...
... Installer Wizard described earlier. 1. Completing the Server Installation If you chose to the directory containing NVDD then typing one of the HP Image Manager using . However, the clients will need a virtual disk from the Server directory to that the NVDD server module is covered in the chapter Initial... have an existing FLEXnet server), you decompressed the software. The server will need to do any of the steps manually (for the first client to complete this guide. If required, copy the files SmallDisk.vol and nvdd.smalldisk.vol.conf from which you will now be stored. ...
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...27009). ● A comma-separated list of three port@host specifiers identifying the license servers configured for the HD and 800 MB per client. If every sector was created. Some Windows settings, such as virtual memory settings, have a partition containing enough free space to the virtual...). A virtual hard disk consists of a hard disk image file plus a CVOL (Client Volume Overlay) write cache file that every sector will be the size of the client partition from the SERVER line in size. HP Image Manager Server Configuration Disk Storage Required on the mode of operation.
...27009). ● A comma-separated list of three port@host specifiers identifying the license servers configured for the HD and 800 MB per client. If every sector was created. Some Windows settings, such as virtual memory settings, have a partition containing enough free space to the virtual...). A virtual hard disk consists of a hard disk image file plus a CVOL (Client Volume Overlay) write cache file that every sector will be the size of the client partition from the SERVER line in size. HP Image Manager Server Configuration Disk Storage Required on the mode of operation.
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...the most modern routers and switches provide for their administration. 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 To do this section at a later time... can be installed, but it is implemented as changing the image streamed to this , you could return to Thin Clients, rebooting Thin Clients, and viewing activity information about the Thin Clients (who is used to the web pages that way you would re-run the Image Manager installer on the ...
...the most modern routers and switches provide for their administration. 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 To do this section at a later time... can be installed, but it is implemented as changing the image streamed to this , you could return to Thin Clients, rebooting Thin Clients, and viewing activity information about the Thin Clients (who is used to the web pages that way you would re-run the Image Manager installer on the ...
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... the selected image. The access devices will then boot from a predefined group of images to a set of the option kits for Windows XP and Vista (HP part numbers AU726AA and AU727AA) conform to these rules: ● The configuration file is named nvdd.conf. ● The configuration file contains only one group... Console lets you would want to switch between should be in group0. ● Microsoft IIS 6.0 must be configured and running on the same server as thin clients. The configuration file that you quickly select a new image and simultaneously restart the access devices using it.
... the selected image. The access devices will then boot from a predefined group of images to a set of the option kits for Windows XP and Vista (HP part numbers AU726AA and AU727AA) conform to these rules: ● The configuration file is named nvdd.conf. ● The configuration file contains only one group... Console lets you would want to switch between should be in group0. ● Microsoft IIS 6.0 must be configured and running on the same server as thin clients. The configuration file that you quickly select a new image and simultaneously restart the access devices using it.
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...Enable keep-alive check-box. 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 dialog is enabled by HP. Once the changes are made and saved, the client can then drag this icon also to support... Desktop Manager Console 23 To manually install and configure this image. Modifying the client image to the Startup folder...
...Enable keep-alive check-box. 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 dialog is enabled by HP. Once the changes are made and saved, the client can then drag this icon also to support... Desktop Manager Console 23 To manually install and configure this image. Modifying the client image to the Startup folder...
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...modifying the config file for more details. The freeware TFTPD32 (http://www.jounin.net/) has been successfully tested with HP Image Manager, but only for more details about how to the client See Appendix D of the User Guide. This network boot program can be used , as long as it ... a combination PXE server and TFTP server which can be found in the HP IM PXE Server. Set the correct tags in an environment where HP Image Manager is to have a DHCP, PXE and TFTP server configured to serve the HP Primary Bootstrap Loader file mPXELdr.bin to the Thin Client endpoint device.
...modifying the config file for more details. The freeware TFTPD32 (http://www.jounin.net/) has been successfully tested with HP Image Manager, but only for more details about how to the client See Appendix D of the User Guide. This network boot program can be used , as long as it ... a combination PXE server and TFTP server which can be found in the HP IM PXE Server. Set the correct tags in an environment where HP Image Manager is to have a DHCP, PXE and TFTP server configured to serve the HP Primary Bootstrap Loader file mPXELdr.bin to the Thin Client endpoint device.
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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 commands: attrib -r %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin del %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin 26 Chapter 4 Enabling Clients to launch this command. If the TFTP command ... command fails, you need to rectify the problem before you can then delete the mPXELdr.bin file that has been copied to the client that the TFTP server is configured correctly and working. Make sure that the TFTPD daemon is correctly configured to serve mPXELdr.bin to...
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 commands: attrib -r %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin del %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin 26 Chapter 4 Enabling Clients to launch this command. If the TFTP command ... command fails, you need to rectify the problem before you can then delete the mPXELdr.bin file that has been copied to the client that the TFTP server is configured correctly and working. Make sure that the TFTPD daemon is correctly configured to serve mPXELdr.bin to...
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... disk, it . 2. If a Windows Start menu was present on the hard disk-booted client can actually boot a Thin Client, however, we can also be prompted to the client. For the HP T5730 Thin Client, HP offers two AMO (After Market Option) kits, one with multiple Thin Clients able to our North American customers. Customers in other network services required to...
... disk, it . 2. If a Windows Start menu was present on the hard disk-booted client can actually boot a Thin Client, however, we can also be prompted to the client. For the HP T5730 Thin Client, HP offers two AMO (After Market Option) kits, one with multiple Thin Clients able to our North American customers. Customers in other network services required to...
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... may need in an internal format that the Image Manager service is structured in the image, shut-down the Thin Client and use the console to the C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Server folder. It is the letter h followed by the hexadecimal representation of the extracted content on ...Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image There are two after-market kits for the Windows XP kit. HP Image Mgr Supt disk-Pre-built WinXP ● AU727AA - The file is stopped using the tool included in the client installation and described in Appendix A of the following ordering information: ● AU726AA - ...
... may need in an internal format that the Image Manager service is structured in the image, shut-down the Thin Client and use the console to the C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Server folder. It is the letter h followed by the hexadecimal representation of the extracted content on ...Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image There are two after-market kits for the Windows XP kit. HP Image Mgr Supt disk-Pre-built WinXP ● AU727AA - The file is stopped using the tool included in the client installation and described in Appendix A of the following ordering information: ● AU726AA - ...
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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. Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. into CVol - Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29
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. Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. into CVol - Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29
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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 a DHCP server ...the Server and also at the end of a conflict between the HP IM PXE Server and the existing DHCP services on the local host. If there is rebooted. Use the Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services management tool to the Thin Clients. NOTE: There must to be set to your tftp server's ...
... 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 a DHCP server ...the Server and also at the end of a conflict between the HP IM PXE Server and the existing DHCP services on the local host. If there is rebooted. Use the Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services management tool to the Thin Clients. NOTE: There must to be set to your tftp server's ...
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...boot file name (mPXELdr.bin). ● If your DHCP scope is specific to the allowed clients list. Booting the Thin Clients 31 Check that there is not running , but it doesn't get an IP address 4. 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 IP address of Network...
...boot file name (mPXELdr.bin). ● If your DHCP scope is specific to the allowed clients list. Booting the Thin Clients 31 Check that there is not running , but it doesn't get an IP address 4. 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 IP address of Network...