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Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 6

SmartStart Scripting Toolkit ............................................................................................................................ 6

Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment ............................................................................................... 6

Minimum requirements .................................................................................................................................. 6

Deployment using the SmartStart Scripting Toolkit ............................................................................. 8

Deployment overview ................................................................................................................................... 8

Sample deployment procedure ...................................................................................................................... 8

Creating a network share .................................................................................................................... 9

Adding drivers to Windows PE 2.1 .................................................................................................... 10

Adding drivers to Windows PE 3.0 .................................................................................................... 10

Capturing a reference configuration from the source server .................................................................. 11

Configuring the target server and installing the operating system .......................................................... 12

Advanced topics ......................................................................................................................... 13

Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 13

Customizing deployment scripts using HPDISCOVERY and IFHW .................................................................... 13

Querying the HPDISCOVERY file based on system name ...................................................................... 13

Querying the HPDISCOVERY file to determine the presence of a particular card ..................................... 13

Querying the HPDISCOVERY file to determine the presence of a card family .......................................... 14

Performing an unattended operating system installation and adding mass storage drivers.................................. 14

Booting Windows PE from a USB drive key .................................................................................................. 22

Flashing the ROM in a Windows PE environment .......................................................................................... 23

Erasing array configurations ........................................................................................................................ 24

Toolkit utilities ............................................................................................................................. 26

Syntax conventions ..................................................................................................................................... 26

Utility online help ....................................................................................................................................... 27

Using toolkit utilities .................................................................................................................................... 27

Using REBOOT .......................................................................................................................................... 27

REBOOT command-line syntax........................................................................................................... 27

REBOOT command-line arguments ..................................................................................................... 27

REBOOT return codes ....................................................................................................................... 28

REBOOT command-line examples ...................................................................................................... 28

Using SETBOOTORDER .............................................................................................................................. 28

SETBOOTORDER command-line syntax .............................................................................................. 28

SETBOOTORDER command-line arguments ......................................................................................... 28

SETBOOTORDER return codes ........................................................................................................... 29

SETBOOTORDER command-line examples .......................................................................................... 29

Using STATEMGR ...................................................................................................................................... 29

STATEMGR command-line syntax ....................................................................................................... 29

STATEMGR command-line arguments ................................................................................................. 29

STATEMGR return codes ................................................................................................................... 30

STATEMGR command-line examples .................................................................................................. 30

Using RBSURESET ...................................................................................................................................... 30

RBSURESET command-line syntax ....................................................................................................... 30

RBSURESET command-line arguments ................................................................................................. 30