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Oracle Hardware CLI Tools Overview
Installing Components Using the Oracle Hardware Management Pack Installer
Installing Hardware Management Pack Components Using Installer
CLI Tools Command Syntax and Conventions
CLI Tools Device-Naming Convention
Configuring the Device Boot Order
How to Set the First Boot Device for the Next Boot
How to Make a Persistent Change to Boot Order
How to Specify a Subset of Strings and a Subset of the Boot List
How to Change Boot Order Based on the PCI Bus, Device, or Function
Commands That Produce Unrelated, Innocuous, Extra Output
fwupdate Command-Line Interface
remove spare Subcommand and Options
Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1
The biosconfig command can be used to get current configuration settings or set configuration settings. When used to get configuration settings, biosconfig generates XML output showing the configuration. When used to set configuration settings, biosconfig reads XML input describing the configuration settings to be made.
Examples of biosconfig commands and their outputs are shown in the following table:
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When a command fails, it returns one of several failure codes listed in biosconfig Error Codes.
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If you run biosconfig without arguments, you get the help output including the biosconfig command options:
# biosconfig Copyright (C) SUN Microsystems 2009. BIOSconfig Utility Version 2.2.5 Build Date: Jan 11 2010 Build Time: 01:22:05 BIOSconfig Specification Version 2.4 Usage: biosconfig [-v] option [filename] Example: biosconfig -get_version output.xml [-v] Verbose on. Only valid if a xml input/output filename is provided [Filename] Name of the XML output (or input) file for get (or set) command (optional). get commands will output to the console if the filename is not provided set commands will get input from the console if the filename is not provided Available options (Required): -get_version Get version of this tool -get_boot_order Get the BOOT Devices list -set_boot_order Set the BOOT Devices list -get_bios_settings Get setup configuration from BIOS -set_bios_settings Set setup configuration to BIOS ROM -get_CMOS_dump Get 256 bytes CMOS setup data from BIOS -set_CMOS_dump Set 256 bytes of CMOS setup data to BIOS
Note - When a command is used with a -get option, the information is output as standard I/O. When the -set option is used, the information is output to a file.
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# biosconfig -get_version ver.xml Copyright (C) SUN Microsystems 2009. BIOSconfig Utility Version 2.1 Build Date: Jul 16 2009 Build Time: 15:55:12 BIOSconfig Specification Version 2.4 Success
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <BIOSCONFIG> <BIOSCONFIG_VERSION>2.1</BIOSCONFIG_VERSION> <SPEC_VERSION>2.4</SPEC_VERSION> <SP_NETWORK_CONFIG> <DISCOVERY></DISCOVERY> <IP></IP> <NETMASK></NETMASK> <GATEWAY></GATEWAY> </SP_NETWORK_CONFIG> <PASSWORD_CONFIG> <PASSWORD></PASSWORD> </PASSWORD_CONFIG> <BOOT_ORDER_OVERRIDE> <HELP_STRING>FIRST=Choose one of: pxe, cdrom, disk, floppy, bios, none</HELP_STRING> <FIRST></FIRST> <HELP_STRING>CLEAR_CMOS=Choose Yes, No or leave it empty, em.....</HELP_STRING> <CLEAR_CMOS></CLEAR_CMOS> </BOOT_ORDER_OVERRIDE> <BOOT_DEVICE_PRIORITY> <B0> <DEVICE_NAME></DEVICE_NAME> <PCI-B-D-F></PCI-B-D-F> </B0> </BOOT_DEVICE_PRIORITY> </BIOSCONFIG>
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