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

hwdiscovery

Synopsis

hwdiscovery [-v | --version] [-f filename]

Description

The hwdiscovery utility captures the hardware configuration of a target machine and saves it

to an XML file. Captured information includes the following:

• System Name

• Serial Number

• Asset Tag

• EFI Firmware version

• BMC Firmware version

• MP Firmware version

• Number of Cells

• Total RAM size

• Number of Processors

• PCI devices present in the system

Depending on the system type (Mid-range and high end, Blade, or Virtual Machine), additional

information is captured. For PCI devices, hwdiscovery captures the following device path and

ID information:

• Bus

• Device

• Function

• Device ID

• Device Sub ID

NOTE: Segment or domain information is not necessary on Windows. All PCI devices use

Segment=0.

You can use the ifhw and hwquery utilities to perform queries on the hwdiscovery output.

This enables you to create conditional scripts for the Windows installation process.

Options

-f filename

Specifies the output file name. If you do not specify a file name, the default

is hwdisc.dat.

-v | --version

Displays the utility version.

Example

A sample hwdisc.dat output file is as follows:

<SystemName>Server rx2660</SystemName>

<AssetTag>abcdef<AssetTag>

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