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ProLiant Support Packs (PSP) represent operating system (OS) specific bundles of ProLiant optimized drivers, utilities, and management agents. These bundles of software are tested together to ensure proper installation and functionality. PSPs are released concurrently with HP's SmartStart CD, and can also be released outside of the SmartStart cycle and available to customers from the HP Software & Driver Downloads pages.
Each PSP consists of a deployment utility, setup and software maintenance tools designed to provide an efficient way to manage routine software maintenance tasks. IT administrators can select PSP updates from a central software repository for deployment on local or remote server systems Windows or Linux. These deployment utilities remotely deploy driver and management agent updates to network attached servers and can be operated from an IT administrator's workstation, where remote servers are selected for software updates.
PSPs provide customers with a ProLiant system software baseline that has already been tested and verified by HP. In addition to the baseline capabilities, HP provides tools that make deploying the software updates to ProLiant servers throughout the environment easy.
ProLiant Support Packs are delivered concurrently with each release of the HP ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack and can also be downloaded via the HP Software & Driver Downloads pages of HP.com. HP provides ProLiant Support Packs for the following operating systems:
- Microsoft
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 Editions
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - web download only
- Novell
- Novell NetWare 5.1, 6.0 and 6.5/Open Enterprise Server
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (includes support for x86, AMD64, and EM64T)
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 (includes support for x86, AMD64, and EM64T)
- Red Hat
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (includes support for x86, AMD64, and Intel EM64T)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (includes support for x86, AMD64 and Intel EM64T)
For more information on PSPs, review the HP ProLiant Support Pack and Deployment Utilities User Guide. |
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In this release of the ProLiant Support Pack, several new and exciting updates have been made.
- ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) Version 7.60 is the last version that supports non-RBSU ProLiant servers. More information is available here
- New Operating System Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8 (x86 & AMD64/EM64T)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 (x86 & AMD64/EM64T)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86 & AMD64/EM64T)
- Windows®
- New Drivers for Windows® PSPs
- HP ProLiant ATI RAGE XL Video Controller Driver for Windows Server™ 2003
- Removed Drivers from Windows® PSPs
- HP ProLiant System Management Controller driver was removed from the Windows Server™ 2003 PSP. However, this driver will continue to be available on HP.com.
- HP Hot Plug Memory driver (cpqmhp.sys) was removed from the Windows Server™ 2003 PSP. However, this driver will continue to be available on HP.com.
- Linux
- Removed Drivers from Linux PSPs
- The HP Tested and Approved Linux Bonding Driver was removed from the ProLiant Support Pack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and the HP Tested and Approved Linux 802.1q VLAN Driver was removed from the ProLiant Support Pack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and the ProLiant Support Pack for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9. Please refer to Customer Notice c00673238, "HP Focusing on Support VLAN and Bonding (Teaming) Driver in Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux Kernels Beginning with SmartStart Release 7.70," for additional information.
Utilities
- The HP Array Configuration Utility for Windows (ACU CLI) software for Smart Array Controllers and the StorageWorks Enclosure 4x00 family of products makes it easy to configure and expand your disk drive arrays. ACU CLI now contains the following enhancements:
- Addition of the enhanced capture/input mode, which allows the user to capture/input configurations from files as a series of CLI commands.
- Addition of auto-configuration capability, which allows the user to run the equivalent of the ACU automatic configuration wizard from the CLI.
Hardware and Software Support
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Ideal for...
Small, Medium and Enterprise IT Environments where:
- HP ProLiant servers have been deployed locally or remotely
- New HP servers need to be deployed and configured quickly
- Existing servers need to be updated with the latest software support files and management agents provided by HP
Key Applications:
- Data centers and IT organizations that want to reduce complexity by creating more consistent configurations for each server
- IT Administrators that need to deploy or update specific HP software components on multiple remote and local servers, such as the HP System Management Homepage, Insight Diagnostics or other HP hardware drivers
- Scripted deployment and configuration of ProLiant support software in a server farm
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