topic Re: automating tasks for efi menu in Operating System - OpenVMS

automating tasks for efi menu

tiago_3 — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:44:33 GMT

Hello all!
I want to automating my work with several machines. The problem is the efi menu is diferent for each machine, efi shell option and other options do not have a fixed position in the menu. I've been investigating a single solution for this with languages as Expect, Python or Java. So the problem is: is possible automating this (choosing the right option in dynamic menus )? What would be better for this, expect or python? Have anyone done this before?

Re: automating tasks for efi menu

Robert Gezelter — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:41:55 GMT

tiago,

I suspect that you want to define a script within the EFI environment. I would not recommend a screen scraping type of script.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Re: automating tasks for efi menu

tiago_3 — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:16:08 GMT

what you suggest to use?
since it will be done with the script open a telnet socket, I thought about use the information of color and position to determine where in the menu I am

Re: automating tasks for efi menu

Arch_Muthiah — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:21:58 GMT

Using efi toolkit which contains TCPIP/IP, FTP, and Python interpreter, we can create a uniform environment and can automate the apps with the help of Python and efi shell scripts.

Archunan

Re: automating tasks for efi menu

tiago_3 — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:02:20 GMT

many thanks!
I will look for it now!
Tiago

Re: automating tasks for efi menu

tiago_3 — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:40:05 GMT

any link to download the efi toolkit? i am not sure if the toolkit for it is the one I found on intel's site

Re: automating tasks for efi menu

Ian Miller. — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:48:12 GMT

http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/toolkit_overview.htm

claims to include python etc

Re: automating tasks for efi menu

tiago_3 — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:52:53 GMT

use the efi toolkit to promote a uniform enviromemnt for efi.