HP iLO 4 Scripting and Command Line Guide

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Contents

1 Introduction.............................................................................................13

Scripting and command line guide overview..............................................................................13

Scripting and command line utilities..........................................................................................13

HPQLOCFG Utility.............................................................................................................14

LOCFG.PL Script................................................................................................................14

HPONCFG Utility..............................................................................................................14

SMASH CLP......................................................................................................................14

IPMI.................................................................................................................................15

New in this version.................................................................................................................15

HP Insight Control server deployment........................................................................................16

2 HPQLOCFG usage...................................................................................17

Configuring for unauthenticated XML queries..............................................................................17

Creating a system collection in HP SIM......................................................................................19

Launch applications with HP SIM custom tools............................................................................19

Batch processing using HPQLOCFG..........................................................................................19

HPQLOCFG command line parameters.....................................................................................20

Using quote characters.......................................................................................................20

Command line switches......................................................................................................21

Using variables and name value pairs with HPQLOCFG.....................................................21

3 LOCFG.PL usage......................................................................................23

LOCFG.PL Utility.....................................................................................................................23

LOCFG.PL command line switches.............................................................................................23

4 HPONCFG online configuration utility.........................................................24

HPONCFG............................................................................................................................24

HPONCFG supported operating systems...................................................................................24

HPONCFG requirements.........................................................................................................24

Installing HPONCFG...............................................................................................................24

Windows server installation.................................................................................................25

Linux server installation ......................................................................................................25

VMware installation...........................................................................................................25

HPONCFG utility....................................................................................................................25

HPONCFG command line parameters..................................................................................26

Using HPONCFG on Windows servers............................................................................26

Using HPONCFG on Linux servers...................................................................................27

Obtaining the basic configuration........................................................................................27

Obtaining a specific configuration.......................................................................................28

Setting a configuration.......................................................................................................29

Using variable substitution...................................................................................................29

Capturing and restoring a configuration................................................................................30

5 SMASH CLP usage...................................................................................32

SMASH CLP ..........................................................................................................................32

6 IPMI usage..............................................................................................33

The IPMI utility........................................................................................................................33

Basic IPMI tool usage..............................................................................................................33

Advanced IPMI tool usage on Linux...........................................................................................33

Advanced IPMIutil usage on Windows......................................................................................34

7 SMASH CLP Scripting Language................................................................35

SMASH CLP command line overview........................................................................................35

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