HP Insight Management Agents 8.40 Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux HOW TO Whitepaper

Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux – HOWTO v8.40

1-1-4 HP Unique Identifier Utility (hpuid)

The HP Unique Identifier Utility (hpuid) allows local manipulation of the ProLiant Unique Identifier (UID)

blue light on selected ProLiant servers. The hpuid utility allows the light to be turned on and off and displays

the current status of the light (Table 4).

Table 4: hpuid options

Command Description

hpuid –d Disables the UID (blue) light

hpuid –e Enables the UID (blue) light

hpuid –s Shows the status of the UID (blue) light

1-1-5 HP management CLI (hpasmcli)

hpasmcli is a scriptable command line interface for interacting with the hpasmd or hpasmxld

management daemons. It is used to view/set/modify BIOS settings such as hyperthreading, boot

control, and UID LEDs. It can be used to display hardware status, such as fans, power supplies, etc. It

can also show, repair, and clear the Integrated Management Log (IML).

The CLI supports TAB completion of command names and has a history buffer that can be accessed

using the up/down arrows. Refer hpasmcli(4) man page for more info.

Table 5: hpasmcli options

Command Description

CLEAR [IML] Clears the specified feature

DISABLE [FEATURE] Disables the specified feature

ENABLE [FEATURE] Enables the specified feature

EXIT Quit the program

NOTE [IML] Add a maintenance note to the IML

SET [FEATURE] Set or configure the feature as specified

SHOW [FEATURE] Show the current status or configuration of the selected feature

1-1-6 hp ProLiant boot configuration utility (hpbootcfg)

The hpbootcfg utility allows an application to set which device to boot from on the next boot of the

system. This can be a permanent change or a "one time" boot change. Typically this feature is used to

boot to PXE for a remote installation. A typical usage would be "/sbin/hpbootcfg -P -b" followed by a

"/sbin/shutdown -r". This command sequence would reboot the server to PXE boot mode and would not

wait on any "F1" prompt messages.