HP NC373F PCI-E Multifunction 1000SX Gigabit Server Adapter - Manual (Page 10)

Installation and configuration 10
To replace the PXE image with iSCSI, complete the following steps.
1. The firmware utility requires the adapter interface to be up and running. Bring up a network adapter
interface using the following command:
# ifup ethx
or
# ifconfig ethx up
2. Update the firmware using the following command:
#./CPXXXXXX.scexe
3. The utility discovers all network adapters in the system and prompts you to upgrade the specified
firmware image. Select n for images that do not require an upgrade and select y to upgrade iSCSI
on the adapter that has PXE installed.
Replacing iSCSI boot option ROM
To replace the iSCSI boot image with PXE, complete the following steps.
1. The firmware utility requires the adapter interface to be up and running. Bring up a network adapter
interface using the following command:
# ifup ethx
or
# ifconfig ethx up
2. Update the firmware using the following command:
#./CPXXXXXX.scexe
3. The utility discovers all network adapters in the system and prompts you to upgrade the specified
firmware image. Select n for images that do not require an upgrade and select y to upgrade PXE on
the adapter that has iSCSI installed.
Common installation log file
The upgrade installation activity is written to an installation log file called ./nicfwupg.log.
Initialize the iSCSI boot path
1. Create a configuration file. The configuration file contains the boot path that the iSCSI Initiator needs
to connect to the iSCSI targets from which it will boot. This information includes the names of the
initiator and target, IP addresses, and so on. Create a configuration file by executing the following
command on a system running any supported Linux version.
vi evinput
2. Define iSCSI boot path variables. Enter the following variables and values in the EVINPUT file using
this format: "<variable>=<value>". Variable names and values are case sensitive. Comments can
be prefixed with a "#" character.
Variable name Description
InitiatorName The name to be used for the iSCSI initiator on the booting system.
TargetName The name of the target from which to boot.
InitiatorNetmask The IP network mask to be used by the iSCSI initiator. This value is in dotted
decimal format.
InitiatorRoute The default IP route to be used by the iSCSI initiator. This value is in dotted decimal
format.
LAA The Locally Assigned Address (MAC address) to be used by the iSCSI initiator. The
value is specified as 12 hex digits. A value of all zeros indicates that the initiator