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Deployment using the SmartStart Scripting Toolkit 9

4.

Load appropriate storage controller drivers:

modprobe -f cciss

5.

Load the channel interface driver for iLO:

insmod /opt/hp/hp-ilo/bin/`uname -r`/hp_ilo.ko

6.

Mount the network share:

mkdir /mnt/toolkit_share
mount -t nfs -o rw,nolock :/path/to/toolkit

/mnt/toolkit_share

7.

Capture a hardware discovery report using the HPDISCOVERY utility:

cd /mnt/toolkit_share/utilities
./hpdiscovery -f /mnt/toolkit_share/data_files/hpdiscovery.xml

8.

Capture the system BIOS configuration using the CONREP utility:

cd /mnt/toolkit_share/utilities
./conrep -s -f/mnt/toolkit_share/data_files/conrep.dat

9.

Capture the Smart Array configuration using the ACU utility:

cd /mnt/toolkit_share/utilities/hpacuscripting
./hpacuscripting -c /mnt/toolkit_share/data_files/hpacuscripting.dat

10.

Capture the iLO configuration using the HPONCFG utility:

cd /mnt/toolkit_share/utilities
./hponcfg -w /mnt/toolkit_share/data_files/hponcfg.dat

11.

Edit the iLO configuration report to create an iLO configuration script:

vi /mnt/toolkit_share/data_files/hponcfg.dat
Unmount the network share
umount /mnt/toolkit_share

12.

Reboot the source server, and then eject the Toolkit CD.

Creating an ISO image to be written to CD

The mkisofs command is used to create an ISO image. The following table describes the arguments

used with this command.

Argument

Description

-o linuxbootCD.iso

This argument is the output of the mkisofs

command, the ISO file.

-b isolinux/isolinux.bin

This argument sets isolinux.bin as the

bootloader.

-V LinuxBootCD

This argument sets the volume label of the

CD.

./linuxbootCD

This argument specifies the target directory
that will be the root of the CD.

To create the ISO image, execute the following command at the shell prompt:

mkisofs -J -iso-level 3 -R -L -o linuxbootCD.iso \

-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
-V LinuxBootCD \

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