Error 8 When Writing an Image with RDP

[Jason Warrington]

I am unable to deploy an image to a BL20p G3 server using RDP. The process fails at the first stage of the deployment (Run Script - Deploy System Configuration)

This first stage fails with "error 8 during script execution"

When clicking on the satus detail button the following is displayed:

f:\lib\bin16\conrep.bat: there was a syntax error in the input file

Can ayone shed some light on why this deployment is failing?

The image being used was taken from this server a couple of months ago using the built in Read Proliant ML/DL/BL script.

[Adrian Clint_1 · Accepted solution]

Have you changed the system configuration during these last 2 months?

If not - just delete this task in the job!

But if you have - what is the name of the file conrep is trying to use? If its pl.ini or pl-win.ini then these are blank files and you can still skip this step.

Or is it capture.ini? Maybe this has been edited so that the server cannot apply?

Can you capture the system config from another system that has the same system/BIOS configurations to overrwrite capture.ini and then deploy that one.

And finally - if its an backup type of image back to the same server then the only task you usually need is the deploy image.

[Jason Warrington]

Thanks for your suggestions. As the system config hadn't changed I removed the 'Deploy System Config' and 'Deploy Array Config' from the task list, leaving only the 'Deploy Image' part. This worked without error.

The input file conrep is calling was capwin.ini
I see what the problem is now. These files are overwritten each time an image is taken so will not work on systems with different configs or disk sizes etc. So I guess I will have to remember to rename these each time an image is taken on a different system and edit the task list accordingly if I want to push out array and system configs in future.

Thanks again.