Using hp insight diagnostics commands in windows, Starting the offline edition, Starting from the hp proliant servers – HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8 Server User Manual

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1.

Open a terminal window if necessary.

2.

Change to the /opt/hp/hpdiags directory.

3.

Enter the command with the preferred switch.

See the following examples:

To capture Survey configuration information for your system, and then send the XML file to a
terminal, enter either of the following commands:

# ./hpdiags -t

# /opt/hp/hpdiags/hpdiags -t

For example, if, every Monday at 5:00 AM, you want Insight Diagnostics to compare the
original HP Survey Utility configuration file to the current HP Survey Utility configuration, and
then save the result to a remote file in plain-text format, enter the following command:

# ./hpdiags -s "0005**01" -c surveybase.xml -p -o

/mnt/remoteserver/surveycompare.txt

To verify the System Management Homepage status on a Linux server, enter the following
command:

/etc/init.d/hpsmhd status

Using HP Insight Diagnostics commands in Windows

To use the command line switches in Windows:
1.

Open a console window if necessary.

2.

Change to the C:\hp\hpdiags directory.

3.

Enter the command with the preferred switch.

See the following examples:

To capture HP Survey Utility configuration information, and then send the XML file to a terminal,
enter either of the following commands:

C:\hp\hpdiags> hpdiags.exe -t

Or from any directory, run C:\hp\hpdiags\hpdiags.exe -t

For example, if, every Monday at 5:00 AM, you want Insight Diagnostics to compare the
original HP Survey Utility configuration file to the current HP Survey Utility configuration, and
then save the result to a remote file in plain-text format, and enter the following command:
C:\hp\hpdiags> hpdiags.exe -s "0005**01" -c surveybase.xml -p -o

\\server\share\surveycompare.txt

Starting the Offline Edition

Starting from the HP ProLiant servers

On an HP ProLiant server, start the HP Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition through the on-board
Intelligent Provisioning software embedded on the servers.

To start the HP Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition, complete the following steps:
1.

Shut down the operating system, and then reboot the server.

2.

When prompted during the booting up process, press F10 to start the Intelligent Provisioning.

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