HP Intelligent Provisioning - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Scripting Toolkit........................................................................................................................7
Minimum requirements..............................................................................................................7
2 Deployment using the Scripting Toolkit..........................................................8
Deployment overview................................................................................................................8
Sample deployment procedure...................................................................................................8
Creating a network share......................................................................................................9
Capturing a reference configuration from the source server........................................................9
Creating an ISO image to be written to media.......................................................................10
Configuring the target server...............................................................................................10
Installing the operating system.............................................................................................11
3 Booting and OS installation.......................................................................12
SYSLINUX..............................................................................................................................12
Booting using PXE...................................................................................................................12
Setting up a TFTP server......................................................................................................13
Populating the TFTP directory share......................................................................................14
Setting up a DHCP server...................................................................................................14
Booting from a USB drive key...................................................................................................15
Performing an unattended operating system installation...............................................................15
System hardware configuration............................................................................................15
Microsoft Windows install_win.sh sample script.....................................................................19
Red Hat Linux anaconda-ks.cfg sample file............................................................................19
4 Scripting Toolkit utilities.............................................................................22
Native package formats..........................................................................................................22
Syntax conventions.................................................................................................................22
Utility online help...................................................................................................................22
Using Scripting Toolkit utilities..................................................................................................23
Using REBOOT.......................................................................................................................23
REBOOT command-line syntax.............................................................................................23
REBOOT command-line arguments.......................................................................................23
REBOOT return codes.........................................................................................................23
REBOOT command-line examples........................................................................................24
Using SETBOOTORDER...........................................................................................................24
SETBOOTORDER command-line syntax.................................................................................24
SETBOOTORDER command-line arguments...........................................................................24
SETBOOTORDER return codes.............................................................................................24
SETBOOTORDER command-line examples.............................................................................24
Using STATEMGR...................................................................................................................24
STATEMGR command-line syntax.........................................................................................25
STATEMGR command-line arguments....................................................................................25
STATEMGR return codes.....................................................................................................25
STATEMGR command-line examples.....................................................................................25
Using RBSURESET...................................................................................................................25
RBSURESET command-line syntax.........................................................................................26
RBSURESET command-line arguments...................................................................................26
RBSURESET return codes.....................................................................................................26
Using BOOTEXTRACT ............................................................................................................26
BOOTEXTRACT command-line syntax...................................................................................26
BOOTEXTRACT command-line arguments..............................................................................26
BOOTEXTRACT return codes...............................................................................................26
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