HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Build Plans Reference Guide

The target server will be booted into the Linux service OS and the SPP firmware update function will be run. Upon

completion of this build plan, the target server will be left in the service OS. If you require the production OS, the build

plan will need to be modified with the appropriate boot steps.

Requirements:

 HP ProLiant server with iLO

 IC server provisioning Media Server must contain a SPP

Optional Custom Attributes:

 SPPversion – SPP version in the form of yyyy.mm.x, for example 2014.02.0 and aligns with the SPP directory

on the media server. “latest” may be specified which will automatically select the latest version on the media

server by sort order. This is the default value.

Scripts

Summary

The scripts listed in this section are used or were created to be used by the HP-provided build plans. There are some

scripts listed here that are not part of the HP-provided build plans, but are meant to provide extended capabilities when

creating custom build plans.

NOTE: There are also some scripts on your appliance that are not listed in this document. These scripts are part of the

underlying Server Automation installation. They have not been tested with the appliance and are not guaranteed to

work.

Add ESXi Boot Option To UEFI Boot Order

This script adds a new entry to the UEFI boot menu that will point to the just completed installation of ESXi. This script

was added because VMware does not currently modify the UEFI boot menu as part of an ESXi installation, and without

this boot option in the menu, installation problems are likely.

This script is meant to be used immediately after an ESXi installation completes. It will force a target server configured

in UEFI boot mode into the Intelligent Provisioning Linux Service OS. The script will then add an ESXi boot option to the

UEFI boot menu. The disk partition with the “ESXi” label is assumed to be the EFI System Partition and will be used when

creating the ESXi boot option. This script does nothing if the target server is not configured in UEFI boot mode.

Type: OGFS

Parameters:

 --atLeast=MINUTES The number of minutes to wait before setting a one-time boot to Intelligent Provisioning.

Since a one-time boot cannot be set while a server is going through POST (Power On Self Test), this option can

be used to give the server time to complete POST after it has rebooted. Default is 5 minutes.

 --atMost=MINUTES The number of minutes to wait for this script to complete after it has configured the

server to one-time boot into Intelligent Provisioning. Default is 45 minutes.

 --bootOptionName=NAME The name of the boot option that you want added to the UEFI boot menu. Default

is "ESXi".

 --efiSystemPartitionLabel=PARTITION_LABEL The label assigned by the ESXi installer to the EFI System

Partition. This option should only be used if the ESXi installer assigns a different label to the EFI System

Partition. Default is "ESXi".

Custom Attributes: None

Add ESXi Module

Adds the specified module to the list of modules ESXi will boot.

Places the file or directory specified as an argument to the “-s” into a compressed tar file so that it can be loaded as an

ESXi module when ESXi is booted. The file or directory will be visible in the file system when ESXi boots.

Type: Unix