SmartSetup Scripting Toolkit Deployment Guide for HP Integrity Servers with Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems

2 Creating an SSTK boot image
After you set up the workstation, you create an SSTK boot image. The boot image starts the target
server in order to execute an SSTK action.
NOTE: The network location of the SSTK repository share is configured in the boot image. If
you want to change or access a different repository share, you must edit the SSTKStart.cmd
file and create the boot image again.
Creating a boot image consists of the following tasks:
1. Editing the SSTKStart.cmd file.
2. Installing OEM drivers in the boot image.
3. Creating the boot image
4. Setting up the boot mechanism
This chapter describes these tasks.
Editing the SSTKStart.cmd file
The SSTKStart.cmd file is the SSTK bootstrap file that contains information for accessing the
repository share and for initializing the deployment process.
NOTE: You must edit the boot\SSTKStart.cmd file before creating an SSTK boot image.
The file contains the following variables.
repository_name
Specifies the hostname or IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) of the
system that hosts the repository.
share_name
Specifies the name of the directory marked as shared on
the repository system.
repository_user
Specifies the user name to access the repository share. The
format is username or domain\username.
repository_password
Specifies the password for the user on the repository
system. The repository password can be a plain text
password or an encrypted password. If you decide to use
a plain password, the encrypted password variable must
be commented and the plain password must be properly
set. For information on encrypting the repository password,
see “Encrypting the repository password” (page 39).
repository_encrypted_pass
Specifies the encrypted password generated by
sstkencrypt utility (see “Encrypting the repository
password” (page 39)).
repository_letter
Specifies the letter to which to map the repository share.
The default is y:.
A sample SSTKStart.cmd script is as follows:
repository_name=192.168.0.220
share_name=sstk_repository
repository_user=Administrator
rem repository_password=
1
repository_encrypted_pass=a89ea897a9aa9ea298
repository_letter=y:
1
The repository password can consist of up to 127 alphanumeric characters, including the
following symbols: `, ~, !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), _, +, -, =, {, }, |, [, ], \, :, ", ; , ', <, >,
Editing the SSTKStart.cmd file 17