Oracle System Assistant - Oracle X5-8 Service Manual

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Oracle System Assistant

Your server might also come equipped with Oracle System Assistant, a server provisioning
and update tool that assists in initial server set up and OS installation and allows you to easily
manage server updates. A server-specific version of Oracle System Assistant is installed on the
internal SMOD USB slot P0 at the factory.
You can start Oracle System Assistant from the server boot screen or from Oracle ILOM.
With Oracle System Assistant, you can:
Get a single server-specific bundle of the latest available BIOS, Oracle ILOM, and
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hardware firmware and the latest tools and OS drivers from the Oracle support site.
Update OS drivers and component firmware and configure RAID.
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Install supported operating systems with the latest drivers and supported tools.
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Configure a subset of Oracle ILOM settings.
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Save and restore customized BIOS settings or revert the BIOS to the factory defaults.
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Display system overview and detailed hardware inventory information.
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For more information, refer to the Oracle X5 Series Servers Administration Guide at:
www.oracle.com/goto/x86AdminDiag/docs
Oracle Hardware Management Pack
Oracle Hardware Management Pack (HMP) provides a family of command-line interface (CLI)
tools for managing your servers, and an SNMP monitoring agent.
You can use the Oracle Server CLI tools to configure Oracle servers. The CLI tools work
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with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, other variants of Linux, and Windows
operating systems. They can be scripted to support multiple servers, as long as the servers
are of the same type.
With the Hardware Management Agent SNMP Plugins, you can use SNMP to monitor
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Oracle servers from the operating system using a single host IP address. This prevents you
from having to connect to two management points (Oracle ILOM and the host).
The Hardware Management Agent fetches and pushes information to and from Oracle
ILOM. The SNMP Plugins provides an industry-standard SNMP user interface.
Oracle Linux Fault Management Architecture (FMA) allows you to manage faults at
the operating system level using commands similar to those in the Oracle ILOM Fault
Management shell on systems with Oracle Linux 6.5 or newer. Oracle Linux FMA is
available on Hardware Management Pack 2.3.
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