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Using hwquery, Hwquery command-line syntax, Hwquery command line arguments – HP Linux Server Management Software User Manual

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Expression input

Result

HWQ:SystemName eq "ProLiant DL380 G2"

and "PCI:Smart Array 5i" and

HWQ:ROMDate eq "11/12/2004"

True if the system is a ProLiant DL380 G2 with a
Smart Array 5i Controller present and a ROM

date of 11/12/2004

"PCI:Smart Array 5i" or "PCI:Smart

Array 6i"

True if the system contains a Smart Array 5i

Controller or a Smart Array 6i Controller

Using HWQUERY

HWQUERY is used from a script, in conjunction with other utilities, to control the deployment. The
HWQUERY utility enables you to use data from the hardware discovery file in your own scripts.
HWQUERY cannot alter environment variables directly. To set the variable, the output of HWQUERY must

be used by the hosting script. The most common way to use it is to write the output to an intermediate
script that is subsequently called by the hosting script.

HWQUERY command-line syntax

hwquery [drive:][path]hpdiscoveryfilename

[drive:][path]allboards.xml variable=<string> ...

HWQUERY command line arguments

Command-line argument

Description

[drive:][path]hpdiscoveryfilena

me

This argument specifies the hardware discovery file used to

run the query.

[drive:][path]allboards.xml

This argument specifies the allboards.xml PCI device list

file, which is used to convert PCI IDs found in hardware
discovery into device names, such as "Smart Array 5i

Controller."

variable=

In this argument, variable is the name of an environment

variable and <string> is a PCI device name or the name of
an element from the hardware discovery file. Arguments
must be in quotes if contains spaces. <string> is

case-sensitive.

...

You can specify multiple variable=<string> arguments.

HWQUERY return codes

Value

Meaning

0

The command was completed successfully

n

N arguments were ignored because they were not in the variable= format.

HWQUERY command-line examples

Command-line argument

Description

hwquery hpdiscovery.xml allboards.xml

For a hpdiscovery.xml file that contains

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