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How to update Server firmware using HP Service Pack

Posted by SiRu on October 17, 2011 · 16 Comments

HP released HP Service Pack for Proliant and you can use it to update both firmware and driver of your HP Proliant ML, DL, SL and Blade Server. As every HP customer want easy access to all of the necessary firmware and driver components in a single location, HP has introduced HP Service Pack. HP Service pack is a combination of your HP Smart Update Firmware DVD and HP Proliant Support Pack. Now using [...]

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Performing Offline Diagnostic test using HP SmartStart CD

Posted by SiRu on April 6, 2011 · 11 Comments

The HP Insight Diagnostics utility is a Hardware diagnostic tool available with HP SmartStart CDs. You can launch this tool by booting to HP SmartStart CD. HP Insight Diagnostics tool is helpful when you do the hardware troubleshooting on a server. This tool can run extensive test on each hardware of your server and helps you to isolate the exact hardware issue.Offline hardware test is very helpful [...]

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How to view/save IML logs using SmartStart CD

Posted by SiRu on March 2, 2011 · 0 Comment

Integrated Management Log records hardware events and stores them in in a neatly formatted table. It records the time-stamp (time of the event) and categorize events in severity levels like Critical, Caution, Repaired and Status. When we troubleshoot hardware issue of any HP server, IML logs are very helpful because it will tell us what are the hardware errors happened. In this post, we are sharing [...]

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Running Offline Diagnostics test using HP Easy Setup CD

Posted by SiRu on February 3, 2011 · 8 Comments

The HP Insight Diagnostics utility is a Hardware diagnostic tool available with HP Easy Setup CD’s of 100 series servers. HP Insight Diagnostics tool is helpful when you do the hardware troubleshooting on a server. This tool can run extensive test on each hardware of your server and helps you to isolate the exact hardware issue. HP Insight Diagnostics is also used to check if all the hardware [...]

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