Overview Of The Ipl And Post-Ipl Procedures; Ipl Considerations - NEC Express5800/320Ma Software Installation And Configuration Manual

Overview of the IPL and Post-IPL Procedures

Overview of the IPL and Post-IPL Procedures
The IPL procedure installs the following:
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003
On Express5800/320Ma systems, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and
Service Pack 1 is installed and supported.
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Express5800/320Ma, including ftServer drivers, ftServer Manager, and
Express5800/320Ma Software Availability Manager (SAM)
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Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) for using the Virtual Technician Module (VTM)
console
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Operating system files that are customized for the systems
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System documentation

IPL Considerations

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Neither the IPL procedure nor the post-IPL procedure mirrors the system disk. To
achieve fault tolerance, mirror it after the installation. See the Express5800/320Ma:
Software Installation and Configuration Guide for instructions.
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Do not attempt to use your Windows Server CD alone to install or reinstall Windows
Server. Instead, use the NEC ExpressBuilder CD (1 of 2) to perform the IPL
procedure. The NEC ExpressBuilder CD (1 of 2) contains customized drivers that
are necessary to run an Express5800/320Ma system properly.
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The Post Installation Check, which runs after the IPL, automatically creates a file
named Versiondate.plt (date represents the file creation time and date) that
contains information about the files that were installed. NEC Technical Support can
use this file to analyze installation problems. This information file is created in the
following folder:
%ProgramFiles%\Stratus\CustomerService\VersionReports
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The Post Installation Check tool, which also runs after the IPL, creates a file named
Postcheck_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm.txt in the
%ProgramFiles%\Stratus\Customerservice\Installcheck folder on the system
drive. In the file name, yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm indicates the year, month, date, hour,
and minute when the file was created.
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