HP ProLiant Support Pack - Manual (Page 74)

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Command-line usage of input file
The form for the HP SUM command line using an input file is hpsum -inputfile[enc] . The
optional -enc ending to the -inputfile flag indicates that the input file is encrypted. The input file itself can
contain the same flags on the command line. The usual command line flags can still be used with the -
inputfile flag, and takes precedence over any given input file. The field can be enclosed in
double quotes to enable paths with spaces.
Input file format and rules
The input file is divided into two sections:
• Configuration
The configuration section starts from the beginning of the file and proceeds until the first target
section is encountered. This section consists of a number of settings parameters and their values.
Each configuration setting must appear on a fresh line in the file along with its value. Comments start
with a # character at the beginning of the line. Only one # is allowed on any line.
• Target
You can provide remote host targets to HP Smart Update Manager. This section can repeat any
number of times in the input file, providing a way to organize targets in related sets.
The section starts with a special header "TARGETS" enclosed in a pair of square brackets:
[TARGETS]
Targets section ends with the special string "END" enclosed in a pair of brackets:
[END]
The keyword TARGETS can be suffixed with an optional arbitrary string. This enables you to tag the
purpose of the TARGETS section. Other than the visible difference in the header, the contents of such
a section are not treated any differently. For example,
[TARGETS_WIN2003]
...
[END]
o Credentials: The TARGETS section allows the targets to be grouped according to the credentials
needed for logging in remotely. Each TARGETS section must have a set of login credentials,
which applies to all targets in that section. If you want to use the current host's login credentials
to log into one or more remote targets, you can do so by setting the variable
USECURRENTCREDENTIAL to YES. Login credentials for one or more hosts can be supplied using
the variables UID and PWD. If given at the beginning of a TARGETS section, both variables must
be used. If given in the middle of a TARGETS section, one or the other can be used to override
the selected variable and continue using the active value for the remaining variable.
o Remote Target: A remote target can be specified using the variable HOST. Possible values are a
DNS Name or an IP address.
File encoding
To allow for the inclusion of double-byte characters, the input file is in UTF-8 format.