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Input files

HP SUM provides the ability to script the update of multiple, individual targets or groups of targets

(HP ProLiant and Integrity servers and options) within a single operation through the input file

functionality. To protect your credentials, use a secure server or a management console.

To create an input file, use a text editor. All section headers and trailers must match. Failure to use

the SILENT=YES option causes the GUI mode to be used, but the information provided enables

you to skip screens where information has already been provided. You can use the DRYRUN=YES

option to perform dry runs of installations to ensure the scripts are working without deploying the

firmware updates that might be required on each target. Remove the DRYRUN=YES option to

perform the updates.

For parameters that can take list values, list separators can be commas, semicolons, or spaces.

NOTE: The credentials can be omitted from the file for greater security and passed on the

command line to HP SUM. The only limitation that the user ID and credentials must be the same

on all.

When the file has been created, to use it with HP SUM, add it as the inputfile <filename>

parameter to a HP SUM command line. For example, if the name of the input file is hpsum.in,

the command-line syntax is hpsum -inputfile hpsum.in. Full paths can be added to the

input file location if the file is not stored in the same location as the HP SUM executables. The

<filename> field can be enclosed in double quotes to enable paths with spaces. Also, the input

file itself might contain the same options on the command line. The usual command-line options

can still be used with the -inputfile option and they take precedence over any given input file.

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 and their values. Each

configuration setting must appear on a fresh line in the file, along with its value. Comments

start with a pound (#) character at the beginning of the line. Only one pound character is

allowed on any line.

• Target

You can provide remote host targets to HP SUM. 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 the following special header enclosed in brackets:

[TARGETS]

The section ends with the following special string enclosed brackets:

[END]

The keyword TARGETS can be suffixed with an optional arbitrary string. This string 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]

◦ 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

host's login credentials to log in to one or more remote targets, you can do so by setting

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