HP Insight Diagnostics 9.0 User Guide

Using the Online Edition from a command line
The optional command line parameters are listed in Table 1 (page 11).
Table 1 Optional command line parameters
DescriptionParameter
Language Code options:–1<LanguageCode>
• en (for English, the default language)
• de (for German)
• es (for Spanish)
• fr (for French)
• it (for Italian)
• ja (for Japanese)
Verbosity of output where Level is an integer between 1 and 5. Level 1 is the most
filtered and Level 5 is the most verbose. The default is Level 3.
-v <Level>
Schedule automatic execution. mm=minute (0-59), hh=hour (0-23), dd=day (1-31),
MM=month (1-12), DD=day of week (0-6). All fields must be two digits (for example,
02 instead of 2).
-s "mmhhddMMDD"
Use a single asterisk (*) for any value. If you use an asterisk, you must quote the
date/time value (-s "0023***"). If no asterisk is used, the quotes are optional.
This command adds an entry to your crontab for Linux-based systems, or to the
Windows Scheduled Tasks list for Windows-based systems. For more information on
crontab, enter man crontab at a Linux command prompt.
Unschedule of HP Insight Diagnostics running.–u
This command removes all entries that refer to HP Insight Diagnostics in your crontab.
For a Windows system, this command removes the entries in the Windows Scheduled
Tasks list.
Compare a file to the current output, or if two files are specified, compare the files
without generating a new report.
-c <File1><File2>
Run a new HP Survey Utility snapshot and output to the terminal.-t
This option is ignored if -o is not specified.
HP Survey Utility captures and comparisons can be to a file as plain text. The default
is XML format.
-p
Run a new HP Survey Utility snapshot and output to a file. The default is formed using
the current date in this format: surveyCCYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss.xml (CC=century,
YY=year, MM=month, DD=day, HH=hour, mm=minute, and ss=second).
—o <File1>
-t and -o cannot be used together.
Overwrite the output file if it already exists.-f
If the -o parameter is not specified this option is ignored.
Append the output to an existing output file.-a
If no -o option is specified, this option is ignored. To avoid XML parsing errors, use
this option with the plain text (-p).
Run a diagnosis of all diagnosable devices. The test results are posted to the Diagnosis
Log (diagnosislog.xml).
–rd
Display help.-? , -h
Using HP Insight Diagnostics commands in Linux
To use the command line switches in Linux:
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