HP Scripting Toolkit 9.00 for Linux User Guide

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Contents

1 Introduction...............................................................................................6

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

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

2 Deployment using the Scripting Toolkit..........................................................7

Deployment overview................................................................................................................7

Sample deployment procedure...................................................................................................7

Creating a network share......................................................................................................8

Capturing a reference configuration from the source server........................................................8

Creating an ISO image to be written to CD.............................................................................9

Configuring the target server.................................................................................................9

Installing the operating system.............................................................................................10

3 Booting and OS installation.......................................................................11

SYSLINUX..............................................................................................................................11

Booting using PXE...................................................................................................................11

Setting up a TFTP server......................................................................................................12

Populating the TFTP directory share......................................................................................13

Setting up a DHCP server...................................................................................................13

Booting from a USB drive key...................................................................................................14

Performing an unattended operating system installation...............................................................14

System hardware configuration............................................................................................14

Microsoft Windows install_win.sh sample script.....................................................................18

Red Hat Linux anaconda-ks.cfg sample file............................................................................18

4 Toolkit utilities..........................................................................................21

Syntax conventions.................................................................................................................21

Utility online help...................................................................................................................21

Using toolkit utilities................................................................................................................21

Using REBOOT.......................................................................................................................22

REBOOT command-line syntax.............................................................................................22

REBOOT command-line arguments.......................................................................................22

REBOOT return codes.........................................................................................................22

REBOOT command-line examples........................................................................................23

Using SETBOOTORDER...........................................................................................................23

SETBOOTORDER command-line syntax.................................................................................23

SETBOOTORDER command-line arguments...........................................................................23

SETBOOTORDER return codes.............................................................................................23

SETBOOTORDER command-line examples.............................................................................23

Using STATEMGR...................................................................................................................23

STATEMGR command-line syntax.........................................................................................24

STATEMGR command-line arguments....................................................................................24

STATEMGR return codes.....................................................................................................24

STATEMGR command-line examples.....................................................................................24

Using RBSURESET...................................................................................................................24

RBSURESET command-line syntax.........................................................................................25

RBSURESET command-line arguments...................................................................................25

RBSURESET return codes.....................................................................................................25

Using BOOTEXTRACT ............................................................................................................25

BOOTEXTRACT command-line syntax...................................................................................25

BOOTEXTRACT command-line arguments..............................................................................25

BOOTEXTRACT return codes...............................................................................................25

Using HPDISCOVERY..............................................................................................................25

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