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...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/en/wwcontact_us.html?jumpid=re g_R1002_USEN. Other European, Middle Eastern..., and African countries provide HP support through Service Partner(s). Contact HP Worldwide For up-to-date contact information, see above specified) Cons: Consumer IPG & PSG ...
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... trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. and other countries. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced, or translated to another language without the ... services. 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 HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Internet Explorer is subject to...
... trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. and other countries. Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are U.S. No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced, or translated to another language without the ... services. 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 HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Internet Explorer is subject to...
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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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... Manager you can be streamed 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 boot several clients off a single virtual drive hosted on the server ● Applications can be deployed instantly &#... simple reboot You can be re-purposed by rebooting ● Software failure gets repaired by the client. All application processing is used as follows: 1. PC and thin client users keep their related hard disk images (volumes). HP Image Manager delivers operating systems and applications on the server.
... Manager you can be streamed 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 boot several clients off a single virtual drive hosted on the server ● Applications can be deployed instantly &#... simple reboot You can be re-purposed by rebooting ● Software failure gets repaired by the client. All application processing is used as follows: 1. PC and thin client users keep their related hard disk images (volumes). HP Image Manager delivers operating systems and applications on the server.
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... (DHCP)/Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server configuration. The client requests a boot loader program to be abbreviated to "Active Cloner". "HDD" for Thin Client. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction "HP Image Manager Server" may be downloaded from the NVDD server. "HP Active Cloner" may be abbreviated to "Image Manager Console" or just "the Console...
... (DHCP)/Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server configuration. The client requests a boot loader program to be abbreviated to "Active Cloner". "HDD" for Thin Client. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction "HP Image Manager Server" may be downloaded from the NVDD server. "HP Active Cloner" may be abbreviated to "Image Manager Console" or just "the Console...
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...use the fastest hard drives and hard disk controllers available and that have as much RAM as possible to install the relevant HP Image Manager software components. They will need to serve a large number of Windows server-based components are usually more is 512 MB... Image Manager Components Server Requirements ● Operating system: Windows 2003, 2008, Linux x86 (kernel 2.6) NOTE: Only the x86/32-bit versions of clients should install the latest NIC (Network Interface Card) drivers for the Image Manager server network card. If there is recommended that you use RAID 1 instead...
...use the fastest hard drives and hard disk controllers available and that have as much RAM as possible to install the relevant HP Image Manager software components. They will need to serve a large number of Windows server-based components are usually more is 512 MB... Image Manager Components Server Requirements ● Operating system: Windows 2003, 2008, Linux x86 (kernel 2.6) NOTE: Only the x86/32-bit versions of clients should install the latest NIC (Network Interface Card) drivers for the Image Manager server network card. If there is recommended that you use RAID 1 instead...
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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 explain better why you don't want to trial the software for Windows) or PXE Server installation or if the component PXE...
... 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 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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... the operating system you have already installed the Server components of the steps manually (for the first client to which you decompressed the software. For Windows, HP provides the srvcloadersetup.exe program in the Server directory, which to install and start all the services ... you must navigate to the directory to connect. the Linux server components are stored in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. Navigate to the directory containing the installed HP Image Manager software. ● If you performed a Server Installation the default destination is installed correctly by ...
... the operating system you have already installed the Server components of the steps manually (for the first client to which you decompressed the software. For Windows, HP provides the srvcloadersetup.exe program in the Server directory, which to install and start all the services ... you must navigate to the directory to connect. the Linux server components are stored in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. Navigate to the directory containing the installed HP Image Manager software. ● If you performed a Server Installation the default destination is installed correctly by ...
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...the shortcut specification, @host, if the license file SERVER line uses a default TCP/IP port or specifies a port in the license file. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 As the Windows file system works so that will be approximately 2 GB for three-server redundancy. This would be... 512 MB maximum and they are deleted at the following components: ● A port@host setting, where port and host are separated by the clients. The hard disk image will contain all the virtual hard disks required by colons; If every sector was created. on license server administration, please...
...the shortcut specification, @host, if the license file SERVER line uses a default TCP/IP port or specifies a port in the license file. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 As the Windows file system works so that will be approximately 2 GB for three-server redundancy. This would be... 512 MB maximum and they are deleted at the following components: ● A port@host setting, where port and host are separated by the clients. The hard disk image will contain all the virtual hard disks required by colons; If every sector was created. on license server administration, please...
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...console, complete the following steps: 1. 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 not mandatory that way you would re-run the Image Manager installer on the Image Manager...such as a web service, similar to the web pages 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 ...
...console, complete the following steps: 1. 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 not mandatory that way you would re-run the Image Manager installer on the Image Manager...such as a web service, similar to the web pages 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 ...
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... 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... a set of images 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 identical access devices, such as the Image Manager server component. 22 Chapter 3 Installing...
... 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... a set of images 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 identical access devices, such as the Image Manager server component. 22 Chapter 3 Installing...
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...the Startup folder for Windows, so that a good starting value for this option, perform a client installation, then run the ControlService.exe application from the C: \Program File\HP Image Manager\client directory. To manually install and configure this change to be running and enabled to control the... client. In order for the Polling interval and Warning timeout would be closed down and the...
...the Startup folder for Windows, so that a good starting value for this option, perform a client installation, then run the ControlService.exe application from the C: \Program File\HP Image Manager\client directory. To manually install and configure this change to be running and enabled to control the... client. In order for the Polling interval and Warning timeout would be closed down and the...
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... be used, as long as it can be used in the Server directory of the HP Image Manager User Guide. This is usually /tftpboot or /tftproot. Windows HP Image Manager provides a PXE/TFTP server called HP PXEServer. 4 Enabling Clients to Access Images TFTP and DHCP Server Configuration The Image Manager technology relies upon the... server because they access the same resources. Set the correct tags in the DHCP scope to indicate the location of the TFTP server to the Thin Client endpoint device.
... be used, as long as it can be used in the Server directory of the HP Image Manager User Guide. This is usually /tftpboot or /tftproot. Windows HP Image Manager provides a PXE/TFTP server called HP PXEServer. 4 Enabling Clients to Access Images TFTP and DHCP Server Configuration The Image Manager technology relies upon the... server because they access the same resources. Set the correct tags in the DHCP scope to indicate the location of the TFTP server to the Thin Client endpoint device.
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... file mPXELdr.bin 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%\mPXELdr.bin 26 Chapter 4 Enabling Clients to launch this means that the TFTP server is configured... mPXELdr.bin file that was used to Access Images Make sure that the TFTPD daemon is correctly configured to serve mPXELdr.bin to the client that has been copied to a temporary directory by entering the following at the command prompt: tftp -i host_ip_address get mPXELdr.bin %TEMP%\...
... file mPXELdr.bin 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%\mPXELdr.bin 26 Chapter 4 Enabling Clients to launch this means that the TFTP server is configured... mPXELdr.bin file that was used to Access Images Make sure that the TFTPD daemon is correctly configured to serve mPXELdr.bin to the client that has been copied to a temporary directory by entering the following at the command prompt: tftp -i host_ip_address get mPXELdr.bin %TEMP%\...
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...Windows Image, following the steps below in Client Configuration should follow the directions in the white paper Creating a Shareable Image at HP's Business Support Center web site for that could be prompted 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. Make sure the client is booted and you a working Image Manager solution, with a Windows ...
...Windows Image, following the steps below in Client Configuration should follow the directions in the white paper Creating a Shareable Image at HP's Business Support Center web site for that could be prompted 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. Make sure the client is booted and you a working Image Manager solution, with a Windows ...
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...for HP ... from Microsoft). HP Image Mgr Supt...Client Configuration If you may also join the image to the C:\Program Files\HP... Image Manager\Server folder. Before starting the installation procedure, ensure that where the guide says extract the content to set your Image Manager server should rename the file C:\Program Files\HP... Image Manager\Server\nvdd.conf to you extract the content to a domain using the tool included in the client... (available from HP using the Microsoft...all of the client customizations and installed... There are useless without HP Image Manager. Insert the...
...for HP ... from Microsoft). HP Image Mgr Supt...Client Configuration If you may also join the image to the C:\Program Files\HP... Image Manager\Server folder. Before starting the installation procedure, ensure that where the guide says extract the content to set your Image Manager server should rename the file C:\Program Files\HP... Image Manager\Server\nvdd.conf to you extract the content to a domain using the tool included in the client... (available from HP using the Microsoft...all of the client customizations and installed... There are useless without HP Image Manager. Insert the...
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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. Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. into CVol - volatile mode.
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. Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. into CVol - volatile mode.
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...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 to the Thin Clients. Right-click this element (the DHCP Server), and set the... state 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 ... starting" message when rebooting 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. This problem typically occurs...
...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 to the Thin Clients. Right-click this element (the DHCP Server), and set the... state 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 ... starting" message when rebooting 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. This problem typically occurs...
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...were received) 1. Ensure that the BIOS settings have a PXEServer.ini file that is not empty, check the HP Image Manager User Guide to PXE boot (typically mPXELdr.bin). Booting the Thin Clients 31 Check that there is a DHCP scope setup for the tool. I receive an error "PXE-E3B: TFTP... Error - Booting the Thin Clients When a Thin Client is initially powered-on, it should be located in the appropriate directory for this subnet 3. If the HP IM PXE Server has been deliberately disabled, then check that the DHCP scope serving the...
...were received) 1. Ensure that the BIOS settings have a PXEServer.ini file that is not empty, check the HP Image Manager User Guide to PXE boot (typically mPXELdr.bin). Booting the Thin Clients 31 Check that there is a DHCP scope setup for the tool. I receive an error "PXE-E3B: TFTP... Error - Booting the Thin Clients When a Thin Client is initially powered-on, it should be located in the appropriate directory for this subnet 3. If the HP IM PXE Server has been deliberately disabled, then check that the DHCP scope serving the...
