With the Advanced Settings Utility (ASU), you can capture and deploy firmware settings as part of scripted deployments.
For convenience, the ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, Windows edition includes the IBMAdvanced Settings Utility (ASU). You can use the ASU to modify firmware settings from the command line on multiple operating-system platforms.
The ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit uses a subset of the ASU function to capture and deploy firmware settings as part of your scripted deployments.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| asu.exe show bios | Displays and captures CMOS settings. You can
use redirection to store this output in a file as shown here: |
| asu.exe replicate filename | Applies CMOS settings from a file. ASU looks for and reads the contents
of the file name specified by filename. If the
contents are valid CMOS settings, they are applied, one line at a
time, to the server. The following example applies the settings captured
above:Note: Due
to a difference in BIOS settings and valid values between models,
only settings captured from an identical model can be replicated.
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