Add a rack manager

You can add rack managers as managed or monitored. The HPE Superdome Flex Server is added into HPE OneView as a monitored rack manager.

When you add a rack manager, HPE OneView automatically applies either the HPE OneView Standard license or the HPE OneView Advanced license to the rack manager based on the firmware version installed. HPE OneView discovers and monitors the hardware subcomponents of the rack manager.

HPE OneView supports adding rack managers with IPv4, IPv6, or both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses depending on the network configuration in HPE OneView. You can add the rack manager using the IPv4 address, IPv6 address or with the hostname.

When you add a rack manager, you can select the already uploaded firmware bundle from the firmware baseline option. Once selected, HPE OneView updates the server with the firmware that matches the specified baseline. The baseline is set for each of the rack manager platform components such as chassis, systems (nPartitions), and Rack Management Controller (RMC). You can also choose to manage the firmware update of the rack manager platform components manually.

Prerequisites

Privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Server administrator.

Procedure

From the main menu, select SERVERS > Rack Managers, and do one of the following:
- Click + Add rack manager in the master pane.
- Select Actions > Add.
Enter the IP address or host name.
Enter the Credentials.

NOTE: Users with Create permissions that are restricted by scope must assign resources to one or more restrictive scopes to be able to manage a resource. Users with Create permissions that are not restricted by scope are not required to assign resources to a scope to be able to manage a resource. Users with no scope restrictions can assign any resource to any scope.
Select the Firmware baseline options.
Click Add to add the rack manager or click Add+ to add more rack managers.
Verify that the rack manager has been added by confirming it is listed in the master pane.

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