HP iLO 4 Scripting and Command Line Guide

8 RIBCL XML Scripting Language

Overview of the RIBCL

RIBCL enables you to write XML scripts to configure and manage iLO 4 configuration settings, user

accounts, directory settings, server settings, and HP SSO settings. Download the sample scripts

from the HP website at http://www.hp.com/go/ilo. Click iLO Sample Scripts for Windows or

Lights-Out XML scripting sample for Linux on the Resources tab, under Support.. Before using the

XML sample scripts downloaded from the HP website, read the firmware support information in

each sample script to tailor the script for the intended firmware and version.

When writing your XML scripts, write comments in the command as needed. If a comment falls in

the command line, an error message is generated. Unless otherwise specified, examples in this

guide are specifically for iLO 4 firmware version 1.40 and later.

This section describes the XML commands and their parameters common to most LOM products

and servers. For more information about the ProLiant BL c-Class server and rack XML commands,

see the HP iLO User Guide on the HP website at: http://www.hp.com/go/ilo/docs.

XML headers

The following XML header must be present in every script, to ensure the connection is an XML

connection, not an HTTP connection:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

In addition to the header above, with the latest utilities update two other headers can be added

in RIBCL scripts:

<?ilo entity-processing="standard"?>

This header added to a RIBCL script (or in a response) will take five entities in a quoted string and

change them to their symbol equivalents:

Table 29 Accepted script entities

SymbolEntity

<?xmlilo output-format="xml"?>

This header will accept five entities (see Table 29 (page 64)) along with changing output to minimum

of response.

Table 30 XMLILO output (GET_FW_VERSION)

Output without headerOutput with header

C:\data\iLo\scripts>perl locfg.pl -s servername -f get_fw_version.xml -u admin -p admin123

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<RESPONSE

STATUS="0x0000"<GET_FW_VERSION

MESSAGE='No error' FIRMWARE_VERSION = "1.60"

/> FIRMWARE_DATE = "Feb 27 2013"

MANAGEMENT_PROCESSOR = "iLO4"

LICENSE_TYPE = "iLO Advanced"

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