ProLiant Essentials Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack

Overview

Available Packs and Purchase Information

ProLiant Essentials Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack (Featuring: sophisticated virtual administration and security features for ultimate control of servers in the data centers and remote sites)
263825-B21 (Software Option Kit - 1 Server)
302280-B21 (Flexible Quantity License Kit)
302281-B21 (License-Only - for use with a Master License Agreement)

Licensing and Packaging
One license is required for every server on which the product is installed and used. Licenses are non-transferable. Full details are contained in the End User License Agreement.

Software Option Kit - 1 Server
Contains one license with unique license activation key and product documentation. For use with a single server.

Flexible Quantity License Kit
The quantity ordered of this part number will be the quantity of licenses included in the kit along with a corresponding activation key. Use the same key to activate all licenses up to the actual quantity ordered. For a given order, one kit will be delivered with the licenses, activation key, and a single set of product documentation.

License-Only
For use with signed and implemented Master License Agreements only. Purchase of this part number entitles you to deploy another license of the product under the terms of your Master License Agreement.
NOTE: Nothing is delivered in conjunction with the purchase of this part number. Visit http://www.hp.com/proliantessentials for more information on Master License Agreements.
To order the ProLiant Essentials Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack contact your HP Account Manager or HP Authorized Reseller, or go online at http://www.hp.com/servers/ilo
For more information regarding ProLiant Essentials Software and the ProLiant Essentials Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack visit
http://www.hp.com/servers/manage

Introduction

The ProLiant Essentials Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack provides HP Customers with an easy upgrade to full Lights-Out functionality on their Integrated Lights-Out Standard enabled ProLiant servers. The Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack features Virtual Graphical Console, Microsoft Terminal Services Integration, Virtual Floppy Drive, Virtual CD, and Directory Services that offer IT managers with true virtual presence and control to their distributed remote sites and data centers. Using the Integrated Lights-Out Advanced, IT managers can perform all the "in-front-of-the-server" functions such as deployment, diagnostics, ROM upgrades, configuration, and maintenance without physically visiting the server. All this functionality is accessible through a standard browser without requiring special software or use of valuable PCI slot. The Integrated Lights-Out Advanced improves the efficiency of the IT managers who have too many servers to manage, are short-staffed and working with limited budgets. Integrated Lights-Out Advanced results in significant cost savings from reduction of travel costs or requirement of dedicated IT staff for managing servers at distributed sites. Integrated Lights-Out Advanced also improves security and simplifies user management by integrating with enterprise-class directory services. Integrated Lights-Out offers added advantage in the dense data centers where space floor is at a premium. Integrated Lights-Out Advanced enables deployment of servers in a "headless" fashion in data center racks by eliminating the need for monitor, switch box, keyboard, mouse, and extra cabling associated with them. The ProLiant BL p-class blade systems ship from the factory with the Integrated Lights-Out Advanced features enabled, allowing the administrators to have full use of the robust Graphical Remote Console, Virtual Media, Directory Services and Microsoft Terminal Services capabilities.

ProLiant Essentials Integrated Lights-out Advanced Pack Benefits

Benefit 1 - Integrated Lights-Out Advanced can be easily activated online with a license key requiring no additional software installation or firmware upgrade. Using the HP Lights-Out Configuration Utility, the license key activation can be scripted for a group of Integrated Lights-Out processors.
Benefit 2 - The ability to view the server console seamlessly and controlling the virtual media devices remotely, frees up the IT staff to organize its personnel more effectively, reduce costs of onsite staff or traveling administrators, and resolve problems more quickly. Now, Microsoft Terminal Services integration further increases productivity by allowing use of Terminal Services when the operating system is available with automatic transitioning to the iLO graphical remote console when the operating system is not available. In addition, directory integration improves security and simplifies user management.
Benefit 3 - Integrated Lights-Out Advanced supports increased server density in data centers by displacing the need to have monitor, switch box, keyboard, mouse, and associated cables in every rack, resulting in additional cost savings.

Product Features

Virtual Graphical Console	Integrated Lights-Out Advanced provides embedded hardware Graphical Remote Console capabilities that can turn a supported browser into a virtual desktop, giving the user full control over the display, keyboard, and mouse of the host server. The operating system-independent console supports graphic modes that display remote host server activities, such as shutdown and startup operations. It works with a standard browser and no additional software is required on the remote server or client system.

Virtual Media (Virtual Floppy and CD)

The USB-based Virtual Media feature allows an IT administrator to boot the remote server using a standard 1.44-MB diskette on the client machine, a CD on the client machine, or an image of the floppy from anywhere on the client's network. After the remote server has booted a USB-capable operating system (e.g., Windows® 2000, Windows 2003, or Red Hat Linux 7.2), the virtual floppy or CD is available as if it were a local USB device. The Virtual Media features save time and increase efficiency by eliminating the need to visit the remote server just to insert and use a diskette or CD.

This feature allows administrators to carry out any of the following functions remotely:

Run HP User Diagnostics on remote host servers
Apply ROMPaq upgrades to remote servers
Deploy an operating system on remote servers from a Virtual CD and network drives
Perform disaster recovery of failed operating systems
Install applications on the remote server from a Virtual CD

Directory Integration for User Management

The Integrated Lights-Out integrates with enterprise-class directory services to provide secure, scalable, and cost effective user management. Directory services, such as Microsoft Active Directory and Novell eDirectory, can be used to authorize directory users with assigned user roles to Integrated Lights-Out processors. An easy and reliable installation program is available to install a management console snap-in and extend customer's existing directory schema to enable directory support for the HP lights-out management products. A directory migration tool is available to automate the integration of existing HP lights-out management devices to directory services.

Microsoft Terminal Services Integration

Integrated Lights Out integrates with Microsoft Terminal Services to provide a high performance graphical remote console by automatically switching to Microsoft Terminal Services when the operating system is fully loaded and available on the host system. When the operating system is not operational, iLO continues to provide its secure, hardware-based Lights-Out console for end-to-end remote access to the host server. Depending upon the operating system status, administrators can easily switch between Remote Desktop for Administration (Microsoft Windows Server2003) or Remote Administration modes (Microsoft Windows 2000 Server) and the iLO graphical console. In addition, the Microsoft Terminal Services integration allows the Integrated Lights-Out management processor to be used as a dedicated management port by routing the Terminal Services session through the iLO network interface. This improves security and frees up the server production network for business transactions. The Microsoft Terminal Services Integration is offered as an optional configuration.

Complementary Products
	ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack* (shipped with every HP ProLiant Server)
	ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack
	HP Remote Insight Board Lights-Out Edition II
	HP Systems Insight Manager
	HP Insight Manager 7
	ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack
	HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit
	* May be named the Server Setup & Management Pack in some servers.

Technical Specifications

Upgradability	Option firmware upgradable via flash ROM
Client Browser Support	Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
Supported Operating Systems	Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 Server and Enterprise Edition
Supported Operating Systems	Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server
	Windows 2003 Server and Advanced Server
	Red Hat 7.2 Professional, Red Hat 7.3 Professional, Red Hat 7.2 Advanced Server
	SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
	Novell NetWare 5.x, 6.x
Client System Support	Microsoft Windows 98
	Windows 2000 and 2000 Professional
	Windows 2000 XP Professional Edition
Supported Servers	Please see the following URL for the latest list of supported servers: http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/riloe2/supported-servers.html
Driver Support	HP Health Driver (HP iLO Advanced Server Management Controller Driver)
	HP iLO Management Interface Driver
Other Product Information	For more information on Integrated Lights-Out, please visit http://www.hp.com/servers/ilo
Warranty	HP will replace defective delivery media replacement for a period of one year (12 months) following the date of purchase. Startup technical software support - Available for no additional charge by calling Support up to 90 days from the date of purchase. Phone support assisting customers with installation, set-up and questions pertaining to the canned scripts and respective usages are supported. Worldwide numbers for Support are available at: http://h71025.www7.hp.com/support/home/selectproduct.asp?destination=email
	Complete warranty can be found at: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/warranty_upgrades/web_statements/176738-NA-US.html

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