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Toolkit utilities 29
Operator or term Result
<number> A literal number, used for comparison
Expression examples
Expression input Result
"PCI:Smart Array 5i" True if the Smart Array 5i Controller is found in
the system
HWQ:TotalRAM gte 512 True if the amount of RAM in the hardware
discovery file is at least 512
HWQ:ROMDate neq "11/12/2004" True if the ROM date in the hardware discovery
file is not 11/12/2004
HWQ:SystemName eq "ProLiant DL380 G2" True if the system name in the hardware
discovery file exactly matches "ProLiant DL380
G2"
HWQ:SystemName eq "ProLiant DL380 G2"
and "PCI:Smart Array 5i" and
HWQ:ROMDate eq "11/12/2004"
True if the system is a ProLiant DL380 G2 with a
Smart Array 5i Controller present and a ROM
date of 11/12/2004
"PCI:Smart Array 5i" or "PCI:Smart
Array 6i"
True if the system contains a Smart Array 5i
Controller or a Smart Array 6i Controller
Using HWQUERY
HWQUERY is used from a script, in conjunction with other utilities, to control the deployment. The
HWQUERY utility enables you to use data from the hardware discovery file in your own scripts.
HWQUERY cannot alter environment variables directly. To set the variable, the output of HWQUERY must
be used by the hosting script. The most common way to use it is to write the output to an intermediate
script that is subsequently called by the hosting script.
HWQUERY command-line syntax
hwquery [path]hpdiscoveryfilename [path]allboards.xml variable=<string>
...
HWQUERY command-line arguments
Command-line argument Description
[path]hpdiscoveryfilename This argument specifies the hardware discovery file used to
run the query.
[path]allboards.xml This argument specifies the allboards.xml PCI device list
file, which is used to convert PCI IDs found in hardware
discovery into device names, such as "Smart Array 5i
Controller."
variable=<string> In this argument, variable is the name of an environment
variable and <string> is a PCI device name or the name of
an element from the hardware discovery file. Arguments
must be in quotes if <string> contains spaces. <string> is