NEC Express Server Express5800 Series - Table of Contents; Contents

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Express5800/R320e-E4, R320e-M4 Installation Guide (Linux)
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Manuals ................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Conventions Used in This Document .................................................................................................................... 5
Notations used in the text .............................................................................................................................. 5
Optical disk drive ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Hard disk drive .............................................................................................................................................. 5
Abbreviations of Operating Systems (Linux) ................................................................................................. 5
POST ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
BMC ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
Trademarks ........................................................................................................................................................... 7
Warnings and Additions to This Document ............................................................................................................ 8
Latest editions ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Safety notes .................................................................................................................................................. 8
Chapter 1 Installing Operating System ............................................................................................................... 9
1. Before Starting Setup ...................................................................................................................................... 10
1.1 Supported Linux OS ............................................................................................................................. 10
1.2 Overview of Setup ................................................................................................................................ 10
2. Setting up ........................................................................................................................................................ 11
2.1 Setup Flow ........................................................................................................................................... 11
2.2 Before starting setup ............................................................................................................................ 12
2.2.1 Preparation for hardware ......................................................................................................... 12
2.2.2 Disabling OS Boot Monitoring Feature .................................................................................... 14
2.2.3 Checking Boot Mode Settings ................................................................................................. 17
2.2.4 Preparation for software .......................................................................................................... 18
2.3 OS Setup .............................................................................................................................................. 20
2.3.1 Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2.................................................................................... 20
2.3.2 Installing the recommended package ...................................................................................... 31
2.3.3 Installing the required package ................................................................................................ 32
2.3.4 Applying Initial Configuration Script ......................................................................................... 32
2.3.5 Updating packages .................................................................................................................. 33
2.3.6 Installing ft Server Control Software ........................................................................................ 34
2.3.7 Before installing NEC ESMPRO Agent .................................................................................... 35
2.3.8 Installing NEC ESMPRO Agent ............................................................................................... 36
2.3.9 Setting required after installing NEC ESMPRO Agent ............................................................. 37
2.3.10 Troubleshooting ..................................................................................................................... 38
2.4 Connecting Optional Device ................................................................................................................. 39
2.4.1 PCI board ................................................................................................................................ 39
2.4.2 Hard disk drive ......................................................................................................................... 39
2.4.3 Other........................................................................................................................................ 39
2.5 Network Setting .................................................................................................................................... 40
2.5.1 Overview of network setting ..................................................................................................... 40
2.5.2 Network setting method ........................................................................................................... 41
2.6 Installing Bundled Software .................................................................................................................. 42
2.6.1 Installing bundled software (see Chapter 2) ............................................................................ 42
2.6.2 How to check the kernel and ft control software version .......................................................... 42
2.7 Enabling OS Boot Monitoring Feature .................................................................................................. 42
2.8 Backing Up System Information ........................................................................................................... 43
2.8.1 BIOS SETUP ........................................................................................................................... 43
2.8.2 System information .................................................................................................................. 44
2.8.3 BMC Configuration .................................................................................................................. 44