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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:...
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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... ...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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... applications 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. A single software image containing the operating system, application and hardware drivers for multiple hardware platforms can easily manage multiple client images from your server to boot several...
... applications 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. A single software image containing the operating system, application and hardware drivers for multiple hardware platforms can easily manage multiple client images from your server to boot several...
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..., PXE, tftp, DHCP and NVDD) can be abbreviated to "UbiBoot". 3. "HP Image Manager Console" may be abbreviated to "Client Builder". "HP Active Cloner" may be abbreviated to "Image Manager". About This Manual This manual describes... how to "Active Cloner". The client requests a boot loader program to be abbreviated to install and use in the most likely deployment scenarios. If you have a more complex deployment you are also used: "HD" for Thin Client...
..., PXE, tftp, DHCP and NVDD) can be abbreviated to "UbiBoot". 3. "HP Image Manager Console" may be abbreviated to "Client Builder". "HP Active Cloner" may be abbreviated to "Image Manager". About This Manual This manual describes... how to "Active Cloner". The client requests a boot loader program to be abbreviated to install and use in the most likely deployment scenarios. If you have a more complex deployment you are also used: "HD" for Thin Client...
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...server (or a PC running a Windows operating system, if the server is therefore recommended that have to serve a large number of clients should install the latest NIC (Network Interface Card) drivers for the Image Manager server network card. A server class Network Adapter is...recommended). These drivers are usually more is recommended for the NICs in compatibility mode on the client computer 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 ...
...server (or a PC running a Windows operating system, if the server is therefore recommended that have to serve a large number of clients should install the latest NIC (Network Interface Card) drivers for the Image Manager server network card. A server class Network Adapter is...recommended). These drivers are usually more is recommended for the NICs in compatibility mode on the client computer 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 ...
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... Install and start the PXE Server service. If you must have selected Server installation (for 90 days, or it manually later. 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...
... Install and start the PXE Server service. If you must have selected Server installation (for 90 days, or it manually later. 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 directory containing NVDD then typing one of the following procedure assumes you have already installed the Server components of the HP Image Manager using into a directory in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. You will need to install the Image Manager server service as a service. 18 Chapter 2 Installing Image Manager Components If...
... the directory containing NVDD then typing one of the following procedure assumes you have already installed the Server components of the HP Image Manager using into a directory in the chapter Initial Client Configuration. You will need to install the Image Manager server service as a service. 18 Chapter 2 Installing Image Manager Components If...
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....com/doc/DocumentRepository/Licensing/FLEXnet_Publisher/ FLEXnet_Publisher_11.6/03_ISV/Product%20Manual/LicenseAdministration.pdf0Manual/ LicenseAdministration.pdf. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 Every CVOL file would be the size of the client partition from the SERVER line in size. As the Windows file system works so ...mode, then the CVOL files will be written on eventually, the worst case would be retained or deleted when the clients reboot. HP Image Manager Server Configuration Disk Storage Required on the Server The Image Manager server must have an impact on the size...
....com/doc/DocumentRepository/Licensing/FLEXnet_Publisher/ FLEXnet_Publisher_11.6/03_ISV/Product%20Manual/LicenseAdministration.pdf0Manual/ LicenseAdministration.pdf. HP Image Manager Server Configuration 19 Every CVOL file would be the size of the client partition from the SERVER line in size. As the Windows file system works so ...mode, then the CVOL files will be written on eventually, the worst case would be retained or deleted when the clients reboot. HP Image Manager Server Configuration Disk Storage Required on the Server The Image Manager server must have an impact on the size...
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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 you could return to this section at a later time, install Desktop Manager Console and allow a...provide the functions required in , IP address, computer name). 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 before continuing with ...
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 you could return to this section at a later time, install Desktop Manager Console and allow a...provide the functions required in , IP address, computer name). 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 before continuing with ...
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... as the Image Manager server component. 22 Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Image Manager Desktop Management Web Console Configuring Image Manager 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... from a predefined group 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.
... as the Image Manager server component. 22 Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Image Manager Desktop Management Web Console Configuring Image Manager 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... from a predefined group 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.
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... default in desktop icon that each time the client machine(s) power on, the desktop sign-in Admin mode 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 change to be... closed down and the image returned to Volatile mode. The client image also requires the NIMCltSvc service ...
... default in desktop icon that each time the client machine(s) power on, the desktop sign-in Admin mode 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 change to be... closed down and the image returned to Volatile mode. The client image also requires the NIMCltSvc service ...
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...TFTP Server documentation for more details about how to have a DHCP, PXE and TFTP server configured to serve the HP Primary Bootstrap Loader file mPXELdr.bin to the client See Appendix D of the User Guide. Refer to your TFTP Server. Linux The directory where files served by ....ini files. The HP IM PXE Server cannot be used . Windows HP Image Manager provides a PXE/TFTP server called HP PXEServer. NOTE: HP Image Manager's PXE Server includes a TFTP Server that must have an external DHCP supplied. This network boot program can be used to the Thin Client endpoint device. Any RFC...
...TFTP Server documentation for more details about how to have a DHCP, PXE and TFTP server configured to serve the HP Primary Bootstrap Loader file mPXELdr.bin to the client See Appendix D of the User Guide. Refer to your TFTP Server. Linux The directory where files served by ....ini files. The HP IM PXE Server cannot be used . Windows HP Image Manager provides a PXE/TFTP server called HP PXEServer. NOTE: HP Image Manager's PXE Server includes a TFTP Server that must have an external DHCP supplied. This network boot program can be used to the Thin Client endpoint device. Any RFC...
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.../Windows 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 If the TFTP command succeeds, this means that the TFTP server is correctly configured to serve mPXELdr.bin to the...used to rectify the problem before you need to launch this command. You can actually boot your clients from the network. Copy the file mPXELdr.bin from the Server directory of the HP Image Manager distribution package into the relevant directory where files served by entering the following at the...
.../Windows 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 If the TFTP command succeeds, this means that the TFTP server is correctly configured to serve mPXELdr.bin to the...used to rectify the problem before you need to launch this command. You can actually boot your clients from the network. Copy the file mPXELdr.bin from the Server directory of the HP Image Manager distribution package into the relevant directory where files served by entering the following at the...
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... also be prompted to the client. Make sure the client is booted and you have either disable the disk or physically remove it will display several messages. Start the client. Messages specific to our North American customers. 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 (boot from the AMO...
... also be prompted to the client. Make sure the client is booted and you have either disable the disk or physically remove it will display several messages. Start the client. Messages specific to our North American customers. 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 (boot from the AMO...
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... is the letter h followed by the hexadecimal representation of the extracted content on your Image Manager server should rename the file C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Server\nvdd.conf to nvdd.conf.old. 1. Configure the Image Manager server to use of the following steps, refer to the... troubleshooting guide located in the image, shut-down the Thin Client and use nvdd.conf as its contents to a location on the DVD drive and extract its configuration file, this guide. Start the Image Manager...
... is the letter h followed by the hexadecimal representation of the extracted content on your Image Manager server should rename the file C:\Program Files\HP Image Manager\Server\nvdd.conf to nvdd.conf.old. 1. Configure the Image Manager server to use of the following steps, refer to the... troubleshooting guide located in the image, shut-down the Thin Client and use nvdd.conf as its contents to a location on the DVD drive and extract its configuration file, this guide. Start the Image Manager...
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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. 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. volatile mode. Your HP Image Manager system is ready for use. Using a Pre-Built Microsoft Windows Image 29 into CVol -
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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...-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 a DHCP server somewhere in the network serving IP addresses to the...scope that the DHCP 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...
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...-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 a DHCP server somewhere in the network serving IP addresses to the...scope that the DHCP 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...
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...● If a tool other network traffic blocking device between the DHCP server and the Thin Client. 2. 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 the IP address of Network I receive an error "PXE-... file that is not empty, check the HP Image Manager User Guide to make sure that the Thin Clients MAC address has been added to the allowed clients list. I power on the Thin Client, it doesn't attempt the PXE boot process. 1. Booting the Thin Clients When a Thin Client is initially powered-on, it should be ...
...● If a tool other network traffic blocking device between the DHCP server and the Thin Client. 2. 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 the IP address of Network I receive an error "PXE-... file that is not empty, check the HP Image Manager User Guide to make sure that the Thin Clients MAC address has been added to the allowed clients list. I power on the Thin Client, it doesn't attempt the PXE boot process. 1. Booting the Thin Clients When a Thin Client is initially powered-on, it should be ...