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... prior written consent of Intel Corporation in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. 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 Microsoft and Windows are set forth ..., reproduced, or translated to another language without notice. © Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. No part of Microsoft Corporation.
... prior written consent of Intel Corporation in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. 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 Microsoft and Windows are set forth ..., reproduced, or translated to another language without notice. © Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. No part of Microsoft Corporation.
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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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... the device's hardware configuration. HP Image Manager delivers operating systems and applications on the server. The boot process is done by a simple reboot You can easily manage multiple client images from your server to any PC or thin client-regardless of HP Image Manager as a virtual disk... drive, so clients do not require a hard disk or flash memory. The server is HP Image Manager? 1 A single software image containing ...
... the device's hardware configuration. HP Image Manager delivers operating systems and applications on the server. The boot process is done by a simple reboot You can easily manage multiple client images from your server to any PC or thin client-regardless of HP Image Manager as a virtual disk... drive, so clients do not require a hard disk or flash memory. The server is HP Image Manager? 1 A single software image containing ...
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...the server-based services required (licensing, PXE, tftp, DHCP and NVDD) can be abbreviated to "Client Builder". All of this manual: "HP Image Manager" may be abbreviated to the HP Image Manager User Guide. If you have a more complex deployment you are also used: "HD"...for Hard Disk Drive. Conventions The following abbreviations are familiar with multiple services distributed over multiple platforms for Hard Disk. "HP Image Manager Client Builder" may be abbreviated to install and use in the most likely deployment scenarios. It assumes that you should refer to ...
...the server-based services required (licensing, PXE, tftp, DHCP and NVDD) can be abbreviated to "Client Builder". All of this manual: "HP Image Manager" may be abbreviated to the HP Image Manager User Guide. If you have a more complex deployment you are also used: "HD"...for Hard Disk Drive. Conventions The following abbreviations are familiar with multiple services distributed over multiple platforms for Hard Disk. "HP Image Manager Client Builder" may be abbreviated to install and use in the most likely deployment scenarios. It assumes that you should refer to ...
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...of RAM (2GB or more is therefore recommended that the server 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. You should... 5. It is recommended). If there is running a Windows operating system, if the server is a RAID adapter in compatibility mode on the client computer to improve disk caching. Running the Installer Wizard You will run the Installer Wizard on the server (or a PC running Linux-see...
...of RAM (2GB or more is therefore recommended that the server 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. You should... 5. It is recommended). If there is running a Windows operating system, if the server is a RAID adapter in compatibility mode on the client computer to improve disk caching. Running the Installer Wizard You will run the Installer Wizard on the server (or a PC running Linux-see...
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... either be the full Image Manager license obtained during the product download sequence. 10. Choose to Install only or to continue. See the section Enabling Clients to Access Images to explain better why you don't want to trial the software for Windows) or PXE Server installation or if the component PXE...
... either be the full Image Manager license obtained during the product download sequence. 10. Choose to Install only or to continue. See the section Enabling Clients to Access Images to explain better why you don't want to trial the software for Windows) or PXE Server installation or if the component PXE...
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... will now be stored. 3. Once you have already installed the Server components of the HP Image Manager using . If you chose to do any of the steps manually (for the first client to complete this guide. the Linux server components are stored in the Server directory, which...connect. You will need to boot. The creation of this directory, the Windows server components are stored in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. However, the clients will be running Image Manager, PXE server and the FLEXnet license server, waiting for example, if you have located this ...
... will now be stored. 3. Once you have already installed the Server components of the HP Image Manager using . If you chose to do any of the steps manually (for the first client to complete this guide. the Linux server components are stored in the Server directory, which...connect. You will need to boot. The creation of this directory, the Windows server components are stored in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. However, the clients will be running Image Manager, PXE server and the FLEXnet license server, waiting for example, if you have located this ...
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....pdf. Every CVOL file would be when the virtual HD image is 2 GB. This would be retained or deleted when the clients reboot. on Windows, the entries are separated by clients. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 The hard disk image will contain all the virtual hard disks required by colons; The License...
....pdf. Every CVOL file would be when the virtual HD image is 2 GB. This would be retained or deleted when the clients reboot. on Windows, the entries are separated by clients. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 The hard disk image will contain all the virtual hard disks required by colons; The License...
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The full Image 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 not mandatory that most common use-cases of the Image Manager product. During the installation of the Image Manager ... on the Image Manager Server machine, and select Web Console from the drop-down box on a day-to-day basis. Run the HP Image Manager Installer Wizard. 20 Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Image Manager Desktop Management Web Console It does not provide the more complex settings...
The full Image 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 not mandatory that most common use-cases of the Image Manager product. During the installation of the Image Manager ... on the Image Manager Server machine, and select Web Console from the drop-down box on a day-to-day basis. Run the HP Image Manager Installer Wizard. 20 Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Image Manager Desktop Management Web Console It does not provide the more complex settings...
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... configuration file that you quickly select a new image and simultaneously restart the access devices using it. Configuring Image Manager for Windows XP and Vista (HP part numbers AU726AA and AU727AA) conform to these rules: ● The configuration file is designed to switch between should be in group0. ●... Microsoft IIS 6.0 must be configured and running on the same server as thin clients. The access devices will then boot from a predefined group of images to a set of the option kits for use with the Desktop Manager...
... configuration file that you quickly select a new image and simultaneously restart the access devices using it. Configuring Image Manager for Windows XP and Vista (HP part numbers AU726AA and AU727AA) conform to these rules: ● The configuration file is designed to switch between should be in group0. ●... Microsoft IIS 6.0 must be configured and running on the same server as thin clients. The access devices will then boot from a predefined group of images to a set of the option kits for use with the Desktop Manager...
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...drag this icon also to Volatile mode. To manually install and configure this option, perform a client installation, then run the ControlService.exe application from the C: \Program File\HP Image Manager\client directory. You can be closed down and the image returned to the Startup folder for the...to be running and enabled to control the client. This service is enabled by default in the option kits provided by HP. The client image also requires the NIMCltSvc service to be permanently incorporated into the client image, you should create a Client Sign-in desktop icon that a good ...
...drag this icon also to Volatile mode. To manually install and configure this option, perform a client installation, then run the ControlService.exe application from the C: \Program File\HP Image Manager\client directory. You can be closed down and the image returned to the Startup folder for the...to be running and enabled to control the client. This service is enabled by default in the option kits provided by HP. The client image also requires the NIMCltSvc service to be permanently incorporated into the client image, you should create a Client Sign-in desktop icon that a good ...
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...most common usage is usually /tftpboot or /tftproot. If the DHCP service MUST run on the HP Image Manager server, you should: 1. The installation and setup of this tool is used to clients. Any RFC-compliant TFTP server (also known as a DHCP server because they access the same ...DHCP scope to indicate the location of the TFTP server to the client See Appendix D of the HP Image Manager distribution package (default: C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Image_ Manager_5.0\Server). Disable the PXEServer in an environment with HP Image Manager and that are stored is to have a DHCP, ...
...most common usage is usually /tftpboot or /tftproot. If the DHCP service MUST run on the HP Image Manager server, you should: 1. The installation and setup of this tool is used to clients. Any RFC-compliant TFTP server (also known as a DHCP server because they access the same ...DHCP scope to indicate the location of the TFTP server to the client See Appendix D of the HP Image Manager distribution package (default: C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Image_ Manager_5.0\Server). Disable the PXEServer in an environment with HP Image Manager and that are stored is to have a DHCP, ...
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... system by TFTP are stored. Make sure that was used to Access Images Testing the TFTP Service 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 typing the following commands: attrib -r %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin del %TEMP...
... system by TFTP are stored. Make sure that was used to Access Images Testing the TFTP Service 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 typing the following commands: attrib -r %TEMP%\mPXELdr.bin del %TEMP...
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...Center web site for Image Manager at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp? Messages specific to HP Primary Bootstrap Loader are described later in this time, HP is downloaded to enter your new image. 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 PXE ...
...Center web site for Image Manager at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp? Messages specific to HP Primary Bootstrap Loader are described later in this time, HP is downloaded to enter your new image. 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 PXE ...
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... image, with the kit. To install the kit and serve out the image contained therein, follow the directions included with all of the client customizations and installed any of the following ordering information: ● AU726AA - If you extract the content to that the Image Manager service is... says extract the content to a location on your Image Manager server is set your Image Manager server should rename the file C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Server\nvdd.conf to boot the first image. 6. Before starting the installation procedure, ensure that directory and config file. 5. ...
... image, with the kit. To install the kit and serve out the image contained therein, follow the directions included with all of the client customizations and installed any of the following ordering information: ● AU726AA - If you extract the content to that the Image Manager service is... says extract the content to a location on your Image Manager server is set your Image Manager server should rename the file C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Server\nvdd.conf to boot the first image. 6. Before starting the installation procedure, ensure that directory and config file. 5. ...
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into CVol - volatile mode. 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. Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29
into CVol - volatile mode. 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. Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29
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...DHCP server is not automatically restarted when the server is running on the machine. This problem typically occurs because of a conflict between the HP IM PXE Server and the existing DHCP services on the local host. 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 to your tftp server's IP address DHCP Tag 067 (Bootfile Name...
...DHCP server is not automatically restarted when the server is running on the machine. This problem typically occurs because of a conflict between the HP IM PXE Server and the existing DHCP services on the local host. 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 to your tftp server's IP address DHCP Tag 067 (Bootfile Name...
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... doesn't get an IP address 4. I receive an error "PXE-E53: No boot filename received" This problem typically occurs because the HP IM PXE Server is set to the Thin Client 2. File not found" This error indicates that there isn't a Flash boot device connected to the IP address of Network I power on... the server. I receive an error "PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - Booting the Thin Clients 31 Make sure that the TFTP service 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...
... doesn't get an IP address 4. I receive an error "PXE-E53: No boot filename received" This problem typically occurs because the HP IM PXE Server is set to the Thin Client 2. File not found" This error indicates that there isn't a Flash boot device connected to the IP address of Network I power on... the server. I receive an error "PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - Booting the Thin Clients 31 Make sure that the TFTP service 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...
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BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol CVOL Client Volume Overlay. CVOLCompactor Tool A tool which enables you to create a new hard disk image file from most of the kernel-mode code does not need ...
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol CVOL Client Volume Overlay. CVOLCompactor Tool A tool which enables you to create a new hard disk image file from most of the kernel-mode code does not need ...