Bios Replication with conrep utility.

[Dave73]

Morning

Im having a bit of dificulty understanding the use of the conrep utility from the hp scripting toolkit. I want to save the bios settings from 1 and deploy to many.

How do i generate the xml file needed to complete the command:

conrep -s -xtest.xml -ftest.dat

Thanks

[Jimmy Vance]

refer to the sections on using CONREP and HPRCU in the toolkit users guide http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03297832/c03297832.pdf

CONREP has been deprecated in favor of HPRCU for Gen8 and later systems.

conrep -s -ftest.dat will save the settings

conrep -l -ftest.dat will load the settings

generally the -x option is only needed for a server that requires a specific hardware definition file such as the 100 series servers

The users guide gives detailed examples and explains why hprcu is a better tool moving forward

[Dave73]

Thanks Jimmy.

From a bit more reading it seems that conrep can not be run from within w2k8 and only from a winpe enviroment ! Is this correct ?

Thanks

[Jimmy Vance]

I do most of my work on the Linux side of the house. Haven't really used the tools under Windows, or WinPE; but see no reason why conrep wouldn't work from within windows

[QuynhD]

Hi Jim,

Also, I ran into a problem of not obtaining all filed of BIOS after successfully creating a "BiosSettings.dat" file.  How do I add in a field for setting?

Thanks.

[Jimmy Vance]

Depending on the server model, some settings are not saved in the output file.  What server model are you working with, and what settings are you trying to change?

[QuynhD]

Here is what I hope to modify the following fields on HP Proliant DL380e Gen8 server - based server.  I tried ether ConRep and HPRCU from HP Scripting Toolkit V9.20 and boot from winPE 32-bit Ver. 3.0.  It seemed to work fine, and the command Line returned 0 as indicated successfully.  However, the XML Configured Settings was not included all.  Hope someone can point out a way to modify the xml file for setting the bios configuration.

Also, I attached the xml file - Thanks.

ROM-Based Setup Utility, Version 3.0

                System Options

                                NUMLOCK Power-On State: On

                Standard Boot Order (IPL)

                                IPL:1 Hard Drive C: (See Boot Controller Order)

                                IPL:2 CD-ROM

                                IPL:3 USB DriveKey (D:)

                                IPL:4 Floppy Drive (A:)

                Server Asset Text

                                Server Info Text

                                                Server Asset Tag = ABC-Corp

                PCI Device Enable/Disable

                                PCI Embedded: … B120i RAID Controller                 Disabled

                                PCI Embedded: … 1Gb 4-port 366i Adapter           Enabled

                                PCI Embedded: … Array Accelerator Manager       Enabled

                                PCI Embedded: … Array P420 Controller                Enabled