[HP]
- Welcome to HP ThinPro PC converter HP device manager
mass deployment PXE tutorial.
As a disclaimer, this tutorial makes the following assumptions:
The Windows server is set up,
configured, and introduced into your environment;
and that HP Device Manager 5.0 service pack one or two
is installed and configured; and that finally ThinPro PC
Converter device and maintenance licenses
have been purchased and obtained.
Notice, this tutorial demonstrates a single licensing
file for both device and maintenance licenses.
You may have more than one licensing file.
For example, renewing the maintenance license and/or
purchasing your replacement license for a retired product
is an example of having more than one licensing file.
This tutorial covers the following: the hardware
requirements, and well as the licensing details for HP ThinPro
PC Converter; downloading ThinPro 7.1 Service Pack 5 from
within HP Update Center in HP Device Manager 5.0 Service Pack
2; adding and/or importing devices into HP Device Manager;
setting up PXE support within HP Device Manager;
Deploying ThinPro 7.1 Service Pack 5 to those
imported devices; PXE booting those imported devices;
deploying ThinPro Converter licensing to those imported
devices; and then finally resuming ThinPro PC setup
for those imported devices.
HP ThinPro PC Converter includes the following
minimum hardware requirements.
It will run on just about any x86 64-bit compatible hardware,
Intel or AMD processors, on as little as two gigabytes
of memory, as well as two gigabytes of storage
on Intel, ATI, AMD and/or Invidia graphics,
wired or wireless networking or USB 2.0 or 3.0.
Notice we will not be utilizing the USB install
method for this tutorial.
HP ThinPro PC Converter utilizes two licensing files
from within a possible single licensing file.
When you purchase both the device license and maintenance
license together, you will receive a single mass licensing
file that will have a certain device count associated with it.
The device license portion of that file will include
the download, install and use of ThinPro PC Converter software.
It will be a perpetual license in that it will
never change or expire.
Once a device is retired and/or replaced,
that particular portion of the license will expire with it,
and it will reach end of life.
So, whenever you do replace that device,
you will need a new device license to go with that device.
The maintenance license will entitle you to ThinPro
PC Converter upgrades, security patches and bug fixes,
as well as HP Device Manager upgrades,
security patches and bug fixes.
The maintenance piece does in fact need to be
renewed after a one- or a three-year term.
Just like the device license, if a device should be either
retired or replaced, that particular maintenance license
will expire with it when that device reaches end of life.
And then when you replace that device,
you will need to purchase a new maintenance license
to go with it.
As a reminder, only the maintenance license will need
to be renewed after the one- or three-year expiration.
Let's begin.
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I have already installed Windows Server Standard 2016 in
my environment, and I've also installed and pre-configured
HP Device Manager 5.0 Service Pack 2,
and I've also obtained my ThinPro Converter license
and placed it on my desktop.
Now what I will go in and do is I'm going to go ahead
and launch HP Device Manager Service Pack 2
by double-clicking the shortcut on the desktop.
And then I'm going to go ahead and log in with
my demonstrator account.
And once logged in, I'm going to see this
flash screen and a brief loading bar.
And once we are in HP Device Manager,
we're going to start by clicking on Templates & Rules.
Once we're in Templates & Rules, I'm going to go ahead and click
on HP Update Center from within the tool bar.
And I'm going to give it a few2 second to go ahead
and retrieve all the updates.
And now what I"m going to go ahead and do is I'm going
to click in the header for OS Type,
and I"m going to gop ahead and narrow this down
to ThinPro7 and click "okay." And then I'm going
to do the same for Device Model in the header.
But this time I'm just going to go ahead and narrow
it down to non-applicable, because our ThinPro Converter
image is device-agnostic.
And then I'm going to go ahead and click "okay."
And now the end result is I'm going to get two choices.
I'm going to get the ThinPro image,
and then also the Smart Zero variant of the image.
It's exactly the same image, it's just one is set up for
Smart Zero so that you don't have to change it later.
Go ahead and choose the one that's applicable
for your use case.
For this tutorial, I'm going to go ahead
and choose ThinPro variant, and I'm going to go
ahead and click Generate Templates.
Now, for the purposes of this tutorial,
I'm going to select x64-bit for architecture.
I'm going to go ahead and leave the OS type of
the image to HP ThinPro7, and then for device models,
since we do have to put in a device model,
you can choose any of these device models.
I'm just going to go ahead and maybe choose a t530
and just click the little "plus" to add it.
Now, don't worry about this too much,
because it is going to be agnostic when you go
ahead and deploy this.
So, it doesn't really matter which device you choose.
And I'm going to go ahead and click "okay" and then
"generate." It's going to ask me where I want to place that,
in which OS family.
I'm going to go ahead and choose HP ThinPro7
and click "okay." It's going to give me a new pop-up saying
the following templates were successfully generated.
It's going to list out the image of choise,
as well as the category, HP ThinPro7.
I'm going to go ahead and click "okay" and then
close out of this window for HP Update Center.
Now, if I scroll down my long listing of templates,
I should in fact see our new template,
and it is going to be somewhat greyed out
and highlighted in blue.
And you're going to notice here in grey, "transferring."
Now, what that is actually doing is it's
actually downloading from the HP Update Center and then
in fact transferring that image to our repository.
And in fact, if you have more than one repository,
it'll probably sync based on your settings down to
your child repository.
So, we're going to go ahead and give that a couple second
to transfer, and then we will proceed forward.
Now that it has finished transfering to my repository,
you'll notice that it is now solid and not
greyed out anymore.
So, what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going
to right-click that template and then I'm going to create
a template for PXE Deploy since we're going to need to
PXE Deploy to these imported devices that
we will be importing as the next step.
So, I'm going to go ahead and click
"Create Template for PXE Deploy"
and then I'm going to go ahead and select the OS family
of HP ThinPro 7 and leave the template name as defaulted
and click "okay." I'm going to get a pop-up for successfully
copied template, and it's going to list that my image name,
as well as HP ThinPro7_64 and hit "okay." And if I scroll
down a little bit further, you're going to notice here
that it created a PXE variant of the image.
So now we have both a non-PXE and a PXE variant of the image.
But we're going to go ahead and use the PXE variant for
the purposes of this tutorial.
Now what we're going to go ahead and do is whe're
goin to import our devices that we need to convert.
So, to do that, I'm going to go ahead and select
"Manage Devices" up at the top, and them I'm going to go ahead
and think about how many devices that
I'm going to need to import.
Now, if I only need to import a handful of devices,
I can go ahead and lickc on "Add a Device" up at the tool bar.
Now, if I need to truly mass deploy several devices,
I can go ahead and click on the "Import Devices."
So let me go ahead and first click on
the "Add a Device" and explain what that looks like.
So, I'm going to go ahead and click on that.
And it's going to ask you for the device,
so you need the Mac address, the IP address,
and then of course the OS family and the gateway you
want to associate it with.
The device ID and the Mac addrtess are one and the same,
so if you populate a device ID, it's going to be pre-populating
your Mac address.
So, just go ahead and collect all your Mac addresses for
the devices you wish to convert and put these in,
if there's only a handful of them,
one at a time into this tool.
And what that could look like, and I"m going
to go ahead and grab a handy Mac address here that
I have accessible to me.
I'm going to paste one in.
And let's try this one more time.
There it is.
And you'll notice that it already pre-populates
the Mac address field.
Now, for the IP address, many of you are going to have DHCP
environments, and you may not necessarily know the IP address
that the device is going to get when it PXE boots.
You can actually spoof an IP address,
one that you know is potentially safe to put in here.
So, what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm just
going to go ahead and put in 192.168.0.150.
And I know that IP address is available.
Now, for the purposes of this tutorial,
it could have been any IP address.
Now I'm going to go ahead and click "okay." Now depending
on the group that we are pre-selected in and for
the purposes of this tutorial, we are in the manual group.
We are going to find our device in "others."
So, when I click "others," you're going to notice that
it is currently an offline device.
It's not going to have a host name.
It is going to have the Mac address,
the IP address we spoofed, and it's going to assume that
we're going to be utilizing HP Device Manager agent version 5.
And then of course there are going to be some blank
fields here, as well.
So, that's how you go about importing a handful
of devices one at a time.
Now, let's say you ahve more than one device.
You can go ahead and click on "Import Devices" up here
on the tool bar, and you can point it to
the path of a file that has a listing of your devices.
It could be a CSV or a text file.
And then you have a handy little checkbox here for
SendTask to rename devices if their names are changes.
Now, if we wanted to look at the sample,
we can click on this link for sample files.
And you're going to notice it's going to have
a sample ofr a CSV and a sample for a text.
If I double-click on the text, you'll notice that it has
a legend up here at the top for how we should align
our information, and then some samples here at the bottom.
So, just like the individual device importer,
for the mass importer, we can go ahead and list
our our devices in this format.
And we don't necessarily have to have an exact IP address.
We can spoof the end here.
and then we can go ahead and proceed forward.
So for the purposes of this tutorial,
I'm just going to go forward with the single
device that we imported.
I'm going to go ahead and close out of this sample
file and out of this window and then out
of the Import Devices mass Importer here.
Now what I'm going to go ahead and do is,
before I go ahead and deploy our image to our device,
we need to make sure that HP Device Manager
is set up for PXE.
Now, the way in which we're going to do that is we're going
to click on the "Gateways & Repositories"
and then the "Gateway" on the sub-menu off to the left.
Make sure that we're on that.
And depending on the gateways that we have,
we only have one in this tutorial, but you may have more.
We're going to first left-click it, highlight it blue;
then right-click it and we're going to configure our gateway.
And the setting we're going to look for is right here.
"Start HP Device Manager PXE service when HPDM
Gateway is started."
And we're going to switch that to "yes." And then
we're going to go ahead and click "okay."
Now, we're going to noticve up here at the top,
"Tasks & Reports" is going to light up with
an orange number one.
We can click on that and then navigate to our "Gateway Tasks."
And we'll notice here that it already configured
our gateway for PXE support.
Now we're ready to go ahead and deploy our image.
So now what I"m going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go
ahead and navigate back to "Manage Devices" and I'm going
to go ahead and scroll down our long listing of templates here
to the left, and I'm going to find my PXE image.
Now, notice the one here at the very bottom.
I'm going to go ahead and click, drag and drop that to my device.
And then once I do that, it's going to give me
the Task Editor.
I can adjust many setting in the Task Editor.
For the purposes of this tutorial,
I'm just going to go with the default and I'm just simply
going to click "okay." I'm going to get a brief
pop-up saying "The subnet of the device in red color
is not the same with its HPDM Gateway.
Would you like to send the text anyway?"
Please ignore this pop-up, as it is not applicable for
this type of scenario.
So go ahead and click "Yes." And now we're going to notice
another orange number on lighting up on
"Tasks & Reports." If I click on that and then
click on "Device Tasks," you will notice that
it went ahead and deployed out that image
to that one device, and it is now currently
in sending status.
And we know that via the legend down here at the bottom
that shows orange for sending.
Now it's going to stay there in "Sending,"
and now what we're going to go ahead and do is we're
going to locate our device that we wish to be converted.
We're going to connect that to our network,
and then we'regoing to go ahead and enter in the bias,
make sure that we are properly set up with the correct good
order necessary for PXE booting to a LAN dsevice.
And then we're going to utililze whatever key shortcut you would
need for that device to go ahead and PXE boot it.
Now, unfortunately, I cannot demonstrate this for you,
as there are many different versions of bias and many
different ways manufacturers choose to initiate PXE Boot.
Just note that you need to configure your bias appropriate
for PXE booting for the LAN device and then strike
the key that is necessary to PXE Boot the device.
Once you're successfully done soo,
you're going 5to see the typical PXE scenario,
and you will actually see the HPDM server answer,
and it will begin to download the image.
Now, once that is complete, this bar here in orange
will change green and it will symbolize finished,
via the legend down here, as it indicates.
Now, once we're finished with that,
the converted device will be sitting at a configuration
screen, very similar to how you would see an
open box scenario for a Windows device.
It's going to have you choose the language
and time and things of that nature.
That's where it's going to be sitting.
Now what we're going to want to go ahead and do
is deploy a license for that converted device.
So to do that, we're going to go ahead and navigate to
our "Manage Devices" tab, and we are going to go ahead
and look for a specific template for deploying the license.
And there it is.
And we're going to go ahead and click "Drag & Drop"
on our thin client device, and it's going to ask for
the licensing file or files.
We're going to go ahead and click the app,
and we're going to go ahead and browse to that licensing file
that we placed on our desktop.
And there it is.
I'm going to go ahead and click "open,"
and then I'm going to go ahead and click "okay."
And now we're going to notice another orange number
one lighting up in "Tasks & Reports."
And if we click on that and locate underneath
the device task sub-menu, we're going to notice that
there is a pending task for deployment
of that licensing file.
Now, once everything is complete,
what you should see here is two green bars indicating
finished via the legend down here at the bottom,
and then you'll know that your image is both successfully
deployed, as well as the license successfully deployed,
and you should not encounter any licensing errors
on that device34.
And now what you will need to do is proceed forward
with the configuration of that converter device
and set up as necessary.
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In summary, we demonstrated the following: how to properly
deploy ThinPro PC Converter via HP Device Manager and PXE,
as well as how to deploy ThinPro PC Converter licensing.
I would like to invite you to join the following webinars
at the two following links.
[HPDM Webinar - HPDM Basic Intro.]
[How to use, Interface Walk-Through]
[Tuesday at 9am MST]
[https://hp.zoom.us/j/109540979]
[HPDM and ThinPro Converter Webinar]
[HPDM Continued, Introduction to ThinPro Converter]
[Thursday at 11am MST]
[https://hp.zoom.us/j/370500223]