topic Re: Backup All Bios Settings - Restore in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Backup All Bios Settings - Restore

werner.zeller — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 14:22:31 GMT

Hi, I want to backup all BIOS settings from a DL360 Gen10 to a file and restore to 30 other DL360 Gen10 servers. Is this possible including raid configuration? Who has done something similar?

Thanks

Best regards

Werner

Re: Backup All Bios Settings - Restore

StorageMike — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:44:12 GMT

The following should help with the BIOS backup - ~~https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=a00036487en_us&docLocale=en_US~~

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GetBIOSSettings https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00020913en_us

RAID is not managed by the BIOS, it's managed by the ACU. There is a sperate set of tools for this, the following should help

https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-remote-server/manage-smart-array-controller-using-powershell-cmdlets/td-p/6999898#.XwXaiud7kuU

Re: Backup All Bios Settings - Restore

werner.zeller — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:58:42 GMT

Hi, I configured a new dl360Gen10 with a iLO IP address 172.x.x.x. On the management PC I installed the hpe-scripting-toolkit-windows-11.40-17. I start ilorest.exe on the management PC with this commands:

Ilorest > Login 172.x.x.x -u Administrator -p password

Ilorest >select Bios.v1_0_0

Ilorest >get -j

With that I get a File bios.json, but inside the file I can not see the iLO IP address 172.x.x.x i set before, DHCP should be disabled and subnetmask should set 255.255.0.0.

"Dhcpv4": "Enabled",

………."Ipv4Address": "0.0.0.0",

"Ipv4Gateway": "0.0.0.0",

"Ipv4PrimaryDNS": "0.0.0.0",

"Ipv4SecondaryDNS": "0.0.0.0",

"Ipv4SubnetMask": "0.0.0.0",

What is wrong, I do not see my settings....Is that not the right submenu ?

Thanks a lot!

Best regards, have a nice weekend! Werner

Re: Backup All Bios Settings - Restore

StorageMike — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:01:13 GMT

Take a look at the following... The serverclone function looks like it does what you need

https://hewlettpackard.github.io/python-redfish-utility/#help-command

Re: Backup All Bios Settings - Restore

Richard561 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:36:23 GMT

@StorageMike I can not for the life of me figure out how to use the ilorest serverclone command.

Nothing I try works

for:

ip 192.168.1.10

username usr

password pwd

iLOrest > get --select ilo. --url 192.168.1.10 -u usr -p pwd serverclone

iLOrest > serverclone --url 192.168.1.10 -u usr -p pwd save

Can you give me an example of running serverclone in iLOrest from a jump box, to clone an iLO with the above IP username and password?