Operations, Accessing hp ssa in the offline environment, Launching hp ssa during post (gen8 or later) – HP Smart Storage Administrator User Manual

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Operations

Accessing HP SSA in the offline environment

To access and launch the HP SSA GUI in an offline environment, use one of the following methods:

Launching HP SSA with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later) (on page

10

)

Launching HP SSA during POST (Gen8 or later) (on page

10

)

Launching HP SSA from an ISO image (all generations) (on page

10

)

To access the HP SSA CLI or HP SSA Scripting in an offline environment, you must launch HP SSA from
an ISO image.

When offline HP SSA launches, an Execution Mode screen does not appear because HP SSA does not

support Remote Service Mode in an offline environment. For this functionality, use HP SSA in an online

environment ("

Accessing HP SSA in the online environment

" on page

14

).

Launching HP SSA with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later)

1.

Boot the server.

2.

Press F10 to launch HP Intelligent Provisioning.

3.

At the main screen, select Perform Maintenance.

4.

At the Maintenance screen, select HP Smart Storage Administrator (HP SSA).
The system launches the HP SSA GUI.

Launching HP SSA during POST (Gen8 or later)

1.

Boot the server.
During POST, the system recognizes devices.

2.

When the system recognizes a Smart Array controller, press F5.
The system launches the HP SSA GUI, or if you are using Serial Console, the system launches the HP
SSA CLI.

Launching HP SSA from an ISO image (all generations)

To launch HP SSA, you can also boot from an ISO image. To prepare the image, use one of the following

methods:

Mounting the image on a local drive (on page

11

)

Mounting the image through iLO (on page

11

)

Burning the image to a CD or DVD (on page

11

)

Flashing the image to a USB memory key or SD card

Installing the image on a PXE server (on page

11

)

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