biosconfig Command Overview - Oracle® Server CLI Tools User's Guide

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Using This Documentation

Oracle Server CLI Tools Overview

CLI Tools Command Syntax and Conventions

Using the biosconfig Tool

biosconfig Overview

biosconfig Requirements

biosconfig Terminology

Device Terminology Used by biosconfig

Device Name Examples

Editing XML Files

biosconfig Command Overview

biosconfig for Oracle Solaris OS

biosconfig for Windows

How to Install the biosconfig Sun System Management Driver on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2008 64–bit

How to Uninstall the biosconfig Sun System Management Driver on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2008 64–bit

Viewing biosconfig Command Options and Version Information

How to View biosconfig Command Options

How to View biosconfig Version Information

Configuring the Device Boot Order

Methods for Changing the Boot List

How to Set the First Boot Device for the Next Boot

How to Make a Persistent Change to Boot Order

How to Change Boot Order Based on the PCI Bus, Device, or Function

Configuring the BIOS CMOS

How to Capture the BIOS CMOS Golden Image

How to Apply the BIOS CMOS Golden Image

Configuring Individual CMOS Settings

Static and Dynamic CMOS Settings

How to Configure a Static CMOS Setting

How to Configure a Dynamic Setting

Commands That Produce Unrelated, Innocuous, Extra Output

Using the ubiosconfig Tool

Using the fwupdate Tool

Using the raidconfig Tool

Using the ilomconfig Tool

Using the hwmgmtcli Tool

Using the zoningcli Tool

Using ipmitool for Windows

CLI Tools Error Codes

Index

`biosconfig` Command Overview

The following table lists the available biosconfig options and their descriptions.

Command	Description
`-get_version`	Get version of this tool.
`-get_boot_order`	Get the boot devices list.
`-set_boot_order`	Set the boot devices list.
`-set_boot_override`	Set the first boot device for the next boot.
`-get_bios_settings`	Get setup configuration from BIOS.
`-set_bios_settings`	Get setup configuration to BIOS ROM.
`-get_CMOS_dump`	Get 256 bytes CMOS of set up data from BIOS.
`-set_CMOS_dump`	Set 256 bytes of CMOS set up data to BIOS.

The following table lists examples of how the –get and –set command options affect input and output.

Command	Description
`# biosconfig –get_version`	Outputs to screen.
`# biosconfig –get_version file.xml`	Outputs to `file.xml`.
`# biosconfig –get_version> file.xml`	Outputs to `file.xml`.
`# biosconfig –get_version \| some-command`	Pipes the output to another command.
`# biosconfig –set_bios_settings`	Takes input from standard in.
`# biosconfig –set_bios_settings file.xml`	Takes input from `file.xml`.
`# biosconfig -set_bios_settings < file.xml`	Takes input from `file.xml`.

When a command fails, it returns one of the failure codes listed in biosconfig Error Codes.

Note ‐ In the output examples in this chapter, all white space outside the XML elements, such as indentation, is optional. For example, see output in How to Make a Persistent Change to Boot Order.

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