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ResultExpression input

True if the system is a ProLiant DL380 G2 with a Smart

Array 5i Controller present and a ROM date of

11/12/2004

HWQ:SystemName eq

"ProLiant DL380 G2" and "PCI:Smart Array

5i" and HWQ:ROMDate eq "11/12/2004"

True if the system contains a Smart Array 5i Controller or

a Smart Array 6i Controller

"PCI:Smart Array 5i" or "PCI:Smart Array

6i"

Using HWQUERY

HWQUERY is used from a script, in conjunction with other utilities, to control the deployment. The

HWQUERY utility enables you to use data from the hardware discovery file in your own scripts.

HWQUERY cannot alter environment variables directly. To set the variable, the output of HWQUERY

must be used by the hosting script. The most common way to use it is to write the output to an

intermediate script that is subsequently called by the hosting script.

HWQUERY command-line syntax

hwquery [drive:][path]hpdiscoveryfilename

[drive:][path]allboards.xml variable=<string> ...

HWQUERY command line arguments

DescriptionCommand-line argument

This argument specifies the hardware discovery file used

to run the query.

[drive:][path]hpdiscoveryfilename

This argument specifies the allboards.xml PCI device

list file, which is used to convert PCI IDs found in hardware

[drive:][path]allboards.xml

discovery into device names, such as "Smart Array 5i

Controller."

In this argument, variable is the name of an environment

variable and <string> is a PCI device name or the name

variable=<string>

of an element from the hardware discovery file. Arguments

must be in quotes if <string> contains spaces. <string> is

case-sensitive.

You can specify multiple variable=<string> arguments.

...

HWQUERY return codes

MeaningValue

The command was completed successfully.

N arguments were ignored because they were not in the

variable=<string> format.

HWQUERY command-line examples

DescriptionCommand-line argument

For a hpdiscovery.xml file that contains

<TotalRAM>768</TotalRAM>, HWQUERY produces the

following:

hwquery hpdiscovery.xml allboards.xml

MY_SYS_RAM=TotalRAM

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