HP 232664-006 Scripting, command line, and utility options, Overview of the Lights-OutDOS utility

Scripting, command line, and utility options

In this section
Overview of the Lights-Out DOS utility ....................................................................................................	110
Lights-Out directories migration utilities ...................................................................................................	113
Lights-Out Configuration Utility...............................................................................................................	125
Using Perl with the XML scripting interface ..............................................................................................	129
HPONCFG..........................................................................................................................................	133
Remote Insight command language ........................................................................................................	138

Overview of the Lights-Out DOS utility

CPQLODOS is a command line utility that is a part of the SmartStart Scripting Toolkit. It is intended to be an initial configuration program to set up only those essential RILOE II settings necessary to allow one of the other full-featured configuration methods. Because of this limited usage model, it processes only a small subset of the RILOE II scripting language.

NOTE: CPQLODOS is a DOS-only tool that requires MS-DOS® 6.0 or higher. Lights-Out scripting is not supported on Linux operating systems or when using the Novell NetWare Client.

CPQLODOS enables you to configure features exposed through F8 startup or the graphical user interface. This utility is not intended for continued administration. The RIBCL should be used to administer user rights and network functionality on the server.

CPQLODOS general guidelines

An opening command opens a database. The database remains open until the matching closing command is sent. All changes made within a single command block are applied simultaneously when the database is closed. Any errors within the block cause the enclosed changes to be discarded.

An example of an opening command and its matching closing command are:

<USER_INFO> </USER_INFO>

In all examples, the opening and closing commands are displayed.

Command line arguments

All of the commands are grouped by functionality. All commands that manipulate user information are grouped together. Grouping commands allow the firmware to view the data to be manipulated as a block of information, similar to a text document, allowing for multithreaded access to the different kinds of information.

The following table lists the arguments recognized by CPQLODOS.

Command line argument	Description
/HELP or /?	Displays simple help messages.

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