Software and configuration utilities 60
Intelligent Provisioning
Intelligent Provisioning is a single-server deployment tool embedded in ProLiant Gen8 and later servers.
Intelligent Provisioning simplifies ProLiant server setup and provides a reliable and consistent way to
deploy ProLiant server configurations:
• Intelligent Provisioning prepares the system for installing "off-the-shelf" and Hewlett Packard
Enterprise branded versions of operating system software and integrates optimized ProLiant server
support software.
• Intelligent Provisioning provides installation help for Microsoft Windows, Red Hat and SUSE Linux,
and VMware operating systems. For specific OS support, see the Intelligent Provisioning Release
Notes on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website
(http://www.hpe.com/info/intelligentprovisioning/docs
).
• Intelligent Provisioning provides maintenance-related tasks using the Perform Maintenance window.
For more information about Intelligent Provisioning software and recovery media downloads, see the
Hewlett Packard Enterprise website (http://www.hpe.com/servers/intelligentprovisioning
). For
consolidated drive and firmware update packages, see the Smart Update: Server Firmware and Driver
Updates page on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website (
http://www.hpe.com/info/SmartUpdate).
Insight Diagnostics
The Insight Diagnostics is a proactive server blade management tool, available in both offline and online
versions. The tool provides diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities to assist IT administrators who
verify server blade installations, troubleshoot problems, and perform repair validation.
The Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition performs various in-depth system and component testing while the
OS is not running. To run this utility, boot the server blade using Intelligent Provisioning (on page 60).
The Insight Diagnostics Online Edition is a web-based application that captures system configuration and
other related data needed for effective server blade management. Available in Microsoft Windows and
Linux versions, the utility helps to ensure proper system operation.
For more information or to download the utility, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website
(http://www.hpe.com/info/InsightDiagnostics
). The Insight Diagnostics Online Edition is also available
in the SPP ("Service Pack for ProLiant" on page 61).
Insight Diagnostics survey functionality
Insight Diagnostics (on page 60) provides survey functionality that gathers critical hardware and software
information on ProLiant server blades.
This functionality supports operating systems that the server blade supports. For operating systems
supported by the server blade, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website
(http://www.hpe.com/info/supportos
).
If a significant change occurs between data-gathering intervals, the survey function marks the previous
information and overwrites the survey data files to reflect the latest changes.
Survey functionality is installed with every Intelligent Provisioning-assisted Insight Diagnostics
installation, or it can be installed through the SPP ("Service Pack for ProLiant" on page 61).
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