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Oracle Hardware Automating Server Management
Our customers don't buy just one of our servers,
they buy Oracle servers to drive large, enterprise-size workloads
that require tens or hundreds of servers.
To configure and monitor many servers
you need a rich set of tools and agents.
That's why we created the Oracle Hardware Management Pack.
Free to download when you purchase an Oracle server,
Hardware Management Pack works with our SPARC T-Series
and across all of our x86 servers, including the new X3-2 family.
The Hardware Management Pack
is all about quick and automated setup of your Oracle servers.
It's a collection of command line tools and agents
that you can integrate into your environment,
whether you're using an enterprise management application
or home-grown scripts.
Each tool addresses a specific use case,
and each tool is engineered
to make the most complicated configuration task
simple and scriptable. And because the tools come from Oracle
and were designed specifically for Oracle hardware
there is no better way to automate server configuration.
The firmware update tool is a command line tool
that can update every firmware image in the system.
You can update your disk drive and controller firmware,
BIOS and Oracle ILOM all from a single tool.
The firmware update tool knows
what the possible firmware targets are
for any given Oracle server,
and ensures that the proper image is applied.
You don't need to hunt down vendor-specific tools
for each of your hardware components.
We have designed a single tool that does it all.
The BIOS configuration tool for x86 servers
interfaces with Oracle's custom UEFI-based BIOS
and allows any settings to be changed in an automated way.
This means that a human doesn't have to boot to BIOS setup
on each server, and navigate a menu system to change settings.
Instead you create an XML configuration file
that contains the BIOS settings
and push it out to tens or hundreds of servers
using a short script.
For example, this could be used to change the boot order
or to disable unwanted option ROMs.
We've also simplified the way
that you configure logical disk volumes
by including another tool called RAID Config.
RAID Config can be used
in a pre-installation boot environment
to configure RAID volumes.
Because the tool was designed to work
with any of our supported disk controllers,
it provides an easy command line interface
that works identically across all of our servers.
The RAID configuration tool can be used
with automated OS installation
to get a new server configured and ready quickly.
There are two more command line tools
in Hardware Management Pack
that borrow some important features from ILOM
and makes them available right from the host OS.
The first is ILOM Config, which allows ILOM to be configured
using a script to import and export an XML-based configuration file.
Or you can use it to modify settings directly from the command line.
Some of the most popular features of ILOM Config
are the ability to configure the initial network settings for ILOM
and to configure user accounts and passwords.
The second tool that allows ILOM features to be used
from the server's OS is the Hardware Management CLI.
This command line tool lets you monitor the health of the server
and list configuration details.
Here's the best part:
the tools and agents in the Oracle Hardware Management Pack
are the same across our x86 servers such as the X3-2,
and also with SPARC T-Series servers.
The same tools, the same agents, the same syntax.
This means that you can manage every Oracle server
with the same tools and the same scripts,
and that reduces management costs.
Oracle Hardware Management Pack
is available for download on Oracle.com.
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