Hello,
I recently bought some HP BL460c blades with 3i embedded preinstalled. One of the servers came with a dead USB drive, so HP shipped us a replacement one without 3i. They gave us a recovery CD to reinstall 3i. After running the CD and installing it, everything works as expected, except Update Manager (FYI I'm running the latest version of VC - 2.5 update 2). When I try to scan the host, it says "please download updates metadata first." U[date manager is able to scan the hosts that came with 3i preinstalled, and they work fine. Just not against the one that was created from the recovery CD.
HP has given me 2 different versions of the recovery CD, each with a different build of 3i. Neither work. I have a support call open with HP, but it is an exercise in futility. They don't speak english, and they don't seem to understand the problem. I believe they are trying, but we're not getting anywhere.
I'm hoping someone here has had the same problem and knows how to fix it. I'm hoping something can be tweaked/edited on the 3i host to fix this.
My only other though is to try a program like Winimage, and take an image of a working preinstalled 3i, and then deploy that image to another USB drive. Then boot from it and change the IP, hostname, etc. I'm not sure if that will work.
