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Configuration replication utility (conrep) – HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface User Manual

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Figure 133 Scripted Installation Flow

Configuration Replication Utility (CONREP)

CONREP with HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 and other UEFI enabled servers is shipped in the Scripting
Toolkit (STK) and is a utility that operates with the BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) to replicate
hardware configuration on ProLiant Gen8 servers. This utility is run during State 0, Run Hardware
Configuration Utility when performing a scripted server deployment. CONREP reads the state of
the system environment variables to determine the configuration and then writes the results to an
editable script file. This file can then be deployed across multiple servers with similar hardware
and software components. For more information, see the HP Scripting Toolkit User Guide for your
operating system environment on the HP website (

http://www.hp.com/go/stk/docs

).

The following section provides information on using CONREP scripts:

Restoring a configuration from a backup (

“CONREP –l (Load from Data File) Example Usage

for HP ProLiant servers not using the Oxx ROM family” (page 148)

)

CONREP –l (Load from Data File) Example Usage for HP ProLiant servers not using the Oxx ROM
family

To load the BIOS configuration settings from a previously captured/edited data file (in this case
sl160zconrep.dat

) to an ProLiant Gen8 server:

[root@ilo002481b08134 conrep]# ./conrep -l -xconrepSL160zg6_20090728.xml -fsl160zconrep.dat

conrep 4.00 - Scripting Toolkit Configuration Replication Program

Copyright (c) 20013-2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

System Type: ProLiant DL580 G8

ROM Date : 01/28/2014

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Configuration flows (manual and scripted)

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