Problems capturing a server image when using a schedule

[Adam Nickells]

Hi,

I've been playing around with getting images of some of our new blade servers. In the whole, it works perfectly, but only if I set the job to run now.

What I really want to do is set a schedule to take an image once a week, or once a night. When I schedule an image capture, the server reboots into PXE mode, and sits there at the menu screen with Initial Deployment highlighted. If I select Managed Server, it boots and takes the image successfully.

Has anyone come across this before, or got any idea why it's doing this?

Thanks,

Adam

[Richard Mouser · Accepted solution]

Adam,

This is strange. Did you set your PXE configuration for Initial Deployment to "Execute Immediately"?

Even so, a server that is in the console should not show up as a new computer (Initial Deployment).

Check the support matrix to be sure the PXE firmware on your blades is up to date.

Which Blade server are you using and which OS?

Which version of RDP are you running?

[Adam Nickells]

Hi,

thanks for the info. I've updated the firmware to version 1.0.0.5 (HP ProLiant NC 10xx/67xx/77xx/150x Gigabit Server Adapter Online Firmware Upgrade Utility for Windows 2000/Windows Server 2003) and it seems to be working fine now.

Cheers,

Adam

[Adam Nickells]

Hi,

I've just had the same problem when attempting to deploy an image to an e-class blade. I'm not sure what's going wrong here to be honest. I had this problem even without scheduling the image deployment. Is there a document somewhere which details the supported firmware and drivers etc.?

Cheers,

Adam

[Richard Mouser]

Adam,

Look at the support matrix (PDF), you can get to it from the Tools/ProLiant Support Pack menu in the RDP console (assuming you have Acrobat installed).

Richard