HP VMware Utilities User Guide VMware ESXi 5.0 U1 for October 2012

the ESXi Server Matrix page, go to www.hp.com/go/vmware and select Certified ProLiants under
Tools/Resource section.
HP offers support for the iLO 2, iLO 3 and iLO 4 features available on ProLiant servers with the
HPONCFG utility.
HPONCFG is an online configuration tool used to set up and reconfigure iLO 2, iLO3 and iLO 4
without requiring a reboot of the server operating system. The utility runs in a command-line mode
and must be executed from an operating system command-line.
Observe the following requirements before using HPONCFG:
• The iLO 2, iLO 3 or iLO 4 Management Interface Driver must be loaded on the server. HPONCFG
displays a warning if the driver is not installed.
• HPONCFG requires minimum iLO 2, iLO 3 and iLO 4 firmware versions. To determine the
minimum firmware version required, see the HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit Linux and Windows
Editions Support Matrix.
For more information, see the Remote Management website:http://www.hp.com/servers/lights-out
HPONCFG command-line syntax
Use the following format at the command line:
hponcfg -f filename [-l filename] [-v] [-m minFw] -g [-m minFw] -w
filename [-m minFw] -r [-m minFw ] -h -?
The HPONCFG utility can be accessed from the location: /opt/hp/tools.
IMPORTANT: Because the-w argument does not capture certain types of information, such as
the administrator password, data files created with HPONCFG using the-w argument cannot then
be used as input files for HPONCFG, unless they are modified first.
Table 1 hponcfg Command Line Arguments
FunctionArgument
This argument captures complete Management Processor configuration to the
file. This option should be used along with the "-w" option.
-a, --all
This argument Get/Set Management Processor Configuration from the XML
input received through the standard input stream.
-i --input
This argument substitutes variables present in the input configuration file with
the values specified in "namevaluepairs".
-s,--substitute
This argument sets the iLO 2, iLO 3 or iLO 4 configuration based on the
information in the XML input file named filename.
-f, - -file=filename
This argument logs replies to the text log file named filename.-l, - -log=filename
Writes all the responses from iLO 2, iLO 3 or iLO 4.-v, - -xmlverbose
This argument returns the host server name and serial number.-g, - -get_hostinfo
This argument indicates to HPONCFG the minimum firmware level that must be
present in the management device to execute the RIBCL script. If the minimum
-m, - -minfwlevel
level is not met, HPONCFG returns an error without performing any additional
actions.
This argument writes the iLO 2, iLO 3 or iLO 4 configuration obtained from the
device to the XML output file named filename.
-w, - -writeconfig=filename
This argument resets the iLO 2, iLO 3 or iLO 4 to factory defaults.-r, - -reset
These arguments display simple help messages.-h, - -help, - -?
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