Table Of Contents; Contents - NEC Express Server Express5800 Series Installation Manual

Contents

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
Express5800/R320e-E4, R320e-M4 Installation Guide (Linux)
Contents
3