Insight Diagnostics; Insight Diagnostics Survey Functionality; Erase Utility; Service Pack For Proliant Overview - HP Apollo 4200 Gen9 User Manual

Insight Diagnostics

The Insight Diagnostics is a proactive server management tool, available in both offline and online versions.
The tool provides diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities to assist IT administrators who verify server
installations, troubleshoot problems, and perform repair validation.
The Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition performs various in-depth system and component testing while the OS
is not running. To run this utility, boot the server using Intelligent Provisioning.
The Insight Diagnostics Online Edition is a web-based application that captures system configuration and
other related data needed for effective server management. Available in Microsoft Windows and Linux
versions, the utility helps to ensure proper system operation.
For more information or to download the utility, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website. The Insight
Diagnostics Online Edition is also available in the SPP.

Insight Diagnostics survey functionality

Insight Diagnostics provides survey functionality that gathers critical hardware and software information on
ProLiant servers.
This functionality supports operating systems that the server supports. For operating systems supported by
the server, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website.
If a significant change occurs between data-gathering intervals, the survey function marks the previous
information and overwrites the survey data files to reflect the latest changes.
Survey functionality is installed with every Intelligent Provisioning-assisted Insight Diagnostics installation, or it
can be installed through the SPP.

Erase Utility

CAUTION:
Perform a backup before running the Erase Utility. The utility sets the system to its original factory state,
deletes the current hardware configuration information, including array setup and disk partitioning, and
erases all connected hard drives completely. Before using this utility, see the instructions in the
Intelligent Provisioning User Guide.
Use the Erase Utility to erase drives and Active Health System logs, and to reset UEFI System Utilities
settings. Run the Erase Utility if you must erase the system for the following reasons:
• You want to install a new operating system on a server with an existing operating system.
• You encounter an error when completing the steps of a factory-installed operating system installation.
To access the Erase Utility, click the Perform Maintenance icon from the Intelligent Provisioning home screen,
and then select Erase.
For more information about the Erase Utility, see the Intelligent Provisioning User Guide on the Hewlett
Packard Enterprise website.

Service Pack for ProLiant overview

SPP is a comprehensive systems software (drivers and firmware) solution delivered as a single package with
major server releases. This solution uses SUM as the deployment tool and is tested on all supported ProLiant
servers including ProLiant Gen9 and later servers.
SPP can be used in an online mode on a Windows or Linux hosted operating system, or in an offline mode
where the server is booted to an operating system included in the ISO file so that the server can be updated
automatically with no user interaction or updated in interactive mode.
For more information or to download SPP, see the https://www.hpe.com/servers/spp/download.
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