Smartstart Scripting Toolkit; Rapid Deployment Pack; Management Technologies - HP ProLiant DL560 Technology Brief

intuitive graphical interface that guides users through the OS installation process. SmartStart
completes server setup by installing ProLiant Support Packs, which are OS-specific bundles of ProLiant
optimized drivers, utilities, and management agents that are ready to be managed with Insight
Manager 7. SmartStart streamlines single-server setup and provides an efficient way to deploy
reliable and consistent server configurations. More information about SmartStart is available on the
HP website at www.hp.com/servers/smartstart.

SmartStart Scripting Toolkit

The SmartStart Scripting Toolkit is an optional deployment tool for automated, unattended installation
for high volume server deployments. The SmartStart Scripting Toolkit supports ProLiant DL and ML
series servers. It includes a modular set of utilities and important documentation that describes how to
apply these new tools to build an automated server deployment process.
Used in conjunction with SmartStart technology, the SmartStart Scripting Toolkit provides a flexible
way to create standard server configuration scripts to automate many manual steps in the server
configuration process. The resulting time savings make it possible to scale server deployments to high
volumes in rapid fashion.
More information about the SmartStart Scripting Toolkit is available at www.hp.com/servers/sstoolkit.

Rapid Deployment Pack

The ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack is an optional solution for automated, unattended
configuration, deployment, and provisioning of one or many servers. The RDP combines two powerful
products―the Altiris eXpress Deployment solution and the ProLiant Integration Module―to provide an
easy "drag and drop" solution for deploying a standard server configuration from a remote console.
The Altiris eXpress Deployment Solution uses Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) technology to
provide complete hands off deployment of servers using a network boot process. PXE provides a
common set of pre-boot services that allow one or more PXE-enabled clients on a heterogeneous
network to acquire an IP address from a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server and
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then download a boot image from a PXE boot server. The embedded NICs in the ProLiant DL560
server provide PXE support.
For information about how PXE works, see the technology brief "Implementing Rapid Deployment
Pack and PXE in an Enterprise Network Environment," available at www.hp.com. More information
about RDP is available from the HP website at www.hp.com/servers/rdp.

Management technologies

The ProLiant DL560 server incorporates a combination of hardware and software technologies that
enable IT organizations to:
• Recognize, diagnose, and respond proactively to OS or server problems remotely
• Increase uptime
• Respond quickly to downtime events to reduce the loss of business revenue
• Reduce operating costs
2 DHCP is defined by RFC 1531, 2131.
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