Edit OS deployment settings

The Edit OS Deployment settings screen enables you to configure the following:

Upload a new version of WinPE to replace the currently installed version. (see Upload a new version of WinPE.
Edit the default service OS used in provisioning servers and specify your facility name (see Edit OS deployment settings.
Specify whether to use the default server discovery naming rule or customize your own rules (see Select server discovery naming rule).
Set the MatrixUser for use in integrating with Matrix CMS (see Specify the MatixUser account).

Upload a new version of WinPE

The WinPE upload allows you to upload a new version of WinPE to your appliance. Your appliance comes pre-installed with WinPE, but there are special cases where you may want to install a different version on top of the existing version. See the Advanced topics section of the Insight Control server provisioning Administrator Guide for information on WinPE and why you might want to upload a new version.

To upload a new version of WinPE, either drag the WinPE zip file and drop it onto the marked space on the page, or click the Upload file button to open a browse window and select the file, you wish to upload. When you upload a WinPE file, it overwrites the WinPE PXE file currently installed on the appliance and also the associated WinPE ISO image.

Edit OS deployment settings

Screen component

Description

Default service OS

Description:

Default service OS is used when adding bare metal servers to Insight Control server provisioning.

To discover a bare metal system, the system is usually booted into a special service OS. The service OS has enough software on it to report various details about the server to the management software and also deploy a production operating system.

LinuxPE — A Linux based service OS

LinuxPE

Required:

Yes

LinuxPE — A Linux based service OS
WinPE — A Windows based service OS

Facility name

Description:	Customer-provided name of your facility. Changing the facility name has no effect on the operation of the appliance. It is used for display purposes only.
Data type:	The Facility name has a maximum length of 29 characters.
Default value:	Appliance
Required:	Yes

Select server discovery naming rule

Server discovery naming rules enable you to customize the display name given to a server when it first boots into maintenance. The rules can be customized so that servers are named in a way that is meaningful to your data center.

Screen component

Description

Information required for selecting server discovery naming rules

Server discovery naming rule

Description:

Select the server discovery naming rule.

Select Use default to use the default Hewlett Packard Enterprise provided rule. The default rule is shown in the box when Use default is selected. You cannot change the default rule.

Select Customize to create custom rules for server discovery naming. You can type one or more server discovery naming rules into the box provided. Select Use default again if you want to go back to the default rule.

The default rule works as follows:

If the server is an ProLiant BladeServer, the display name is set to rack-enclosure-bay, where rack, enclosure, and bay represent the server’s location information.
For all other server types, the display name is set to the server’s serial number.

For details on server discovery naming and how to construct custom server discovery naming rules, see Server discovery naming rules.

Default value:

Use defaults

Specify the MatixUser account

For Matrix CMS to be able to access the IC server provisioning appliance, a special user account called “MatrixUser” has been provided in Insight Control server provisioning. Your CMS cannot access this appliance using any other user account, and a user cannot log into the IC server provisioning user interface with this account. The MatrixUser account is exclusively for CMS access.

Before the MatrixUser account can be used, a password must be set using the fields shown in the following table.

Screen component Description

Information required for your Matrix Operating Environment setup

Deployment user name

Description:	User name to be used for Matrix Operating Environment (Matrix OE) credentials. This is not an Insight Control server provisioning user account. It is for a special MOE service account to be used with the Insight Control server provisioning deployment engine.
Default value:	MatrixUser

Deployment password

Description:	Password for the Deployment user name to be used by Matrix OE in integrating with Insight Control server provisioning. Password will be blank if the Matrix user account is not set up. If the password has been set you will see asterisks in the field. To enter a new password, click in the input field and type in a new password.
Data type:	Only ASCII characters. Must be at least 6 characters and cannot be more than 50 characters. Must not contain a \ or ^ character.
Default value:	`None`
Required:	Only required if Matrix OE integration is set up.

Once the password is set, you can configure your Matrix CMS to access this appliance by providing the deployment IP address, the special username “MatrixUser” and the password you defined. When a password is entered on this Edit OS Deployment Settings screen, it overwrites the previous password and your Matrix CMS must be updated.

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