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Last post 02-18-2009 2:42 AM by Old Time Coder. 8 replies.

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  • 09-08-2008, 11:16 AM

    script for Firmware version/boot order

    Hey,

    I'm trying to write a script that will check the firmware and boot order for our Sun servers. I know log parser is used to retrieve information from system logs, but is there any way to make it do what I need, or does anyone know of another tool that I can use for this?

  • 09-08-2008, 11:49 AM In reply to

    Re: script for Firmware version/boot order

  • 09-08-2008, 2:00 PM In reply to

    Re: script for Firmware version/boot order

    i want a tool that will check the firmware version and the boot order for a group of servers. I know how to do it manually but id rather automate it. Do you know of any tools that can help me do this?

  • 09-08-2008, 3:48 PM In reply to

    Re: script for Firmware version/boot order

     You want a tool that checks the firmware version of sun servers and you are asking in an IIS forum. I don't get it.

  • 09-09-2008, 3:08 PM In reply to

    Re: script for Firmware version/boot order

    I clicked a link that said the official log parser forum...it brought me here...our sun servers are running server 2003...log parser works on our sun servers...i've read the registry entry in HKLM contains info about the BIOS...i want to use log parser to get this information from our sun servers...thats why I'm here...

  • 09-10-2008, 8:24 AM In reply to

    Re: script for Firmware version/boot order

    Mr.NiceGuy:

    I clicked a link that said the official log parser forum...it brought me here...our sun servers are running server 2003...log parser works on our sun servers...i've read the registry entry in HKLM contains info about the BIOS...i want to use log parser to get this information from our sun servers...thats why I'm here...

     

    Aha got it it wasn't in the log parser forum and I didn't know what you were on about. :)

  • 09-10-2008, 9:20 AM In reply to

    • yellowdog.dave
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    Re: script for Firmware version/boot order

    Hi, 

    If you know where the info is in the registry, then you can certainly use logparser to get it - refer to the logparser.chm help file and look at the input format of REG. There is an example query in there. The help file is extremely useful.

    Psinfo is a little utility in the freeware suite called PSTOOLS by Sysinternals - it gives you some system info.The suite, which is very useful, can be downloaded from here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx

    You can go to the Microsoft Script Centre and there you will find plenty of resources for getting all kinds of information from local and remote systems using WMI and various scripting languages such as vbs, powershell and java script. Start here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx and look in the script repository for examples for extracting all your BIOS information etc etc. You can also ask the Scripting Guy for assistance if you really get stuck.

    Hope this helps, as I do not know how technical you are and whether or not you would be able to write these scripts yourself. 

    Good luck.

    Cheers, Dave 

     

    Yes, dear
  • 02-18-2009, 2:13 AM In reply to

    Maybe and answer: script for Firmware version/boot order

    Well, WMI and WBEM are the M$ flavors (for MS OS's) of what you need the server side of the Desktop Management Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Management_Interface, but the godl mine of specifications is from the Distributed Management Task Force http://www.dmtf.org/home/ on their published documents page,

    http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/

    So, it is possible to do it.  If you have a system that reports out a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMDB you might be able to suck in what's needed without building a whole lot of new code.

    O.T.C.

  • 02-18-2009, 2:42 AM In reply to

    Re: script for Firmware version/boot order

     After the prior post, I clicked a couple more links on Wikipedia and found that Sun has some help, their Solaris WBEM Services. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/wbem/   The FAQ off that page looked like it is something you might want to look in to.

    O.T.C.

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