Hpasmcli is short for HP System Health Application and Insight Management Agents, it’s a scriptable command line interface for interacting with the hpasm management daemons, which can be used to view / set / modify BIOS settings such as hyper-threading, boot sequence control, and UID LEDs. It can also be used to display hardware status.
In addition to the command line interface, hpasmcli is also usable for incorporating into shell scripts. The return value of hpasmcli can be used to verify a command executed successfully. If multiple commands are executed, only the status of the last command is returned to the shell.
Hpasmcli supports TAB completion of command names and has a history buffer that can be accessed using the up/down arrows. The following examples are created on a HP ProLiant DL380 G4 server.
As an example, the following first executes the ´SHOW SERVER´ command to retrieve basic system information, and next reads the environment temperature:
[root@example email]# hpasmcli -s 'show server; show temp' System : ProLiant DL380 G4 Serial No. : CN-HIDED-YD ROM version : P51 12/02/2004 iLo present : Yes Embedded NICs : 2 NIC1 MAC: 00:13:21:cc:33:49 NIC2 MAC: 00:13:21:cc:33:48 Processor: 0 Name : Intel Xeon Stepping : 1 Speed : 3000 MHz Bus : 800 MHz Socket : 1 Level2 Cache : 1024 KBytes Status : Ok Processor: 1 Name : Intel Xeon Stepping : 1 Speed : 3000 MHz Bus : 800 MHz Socket : 2 Level2 Cache : 1024 KBytes Status : Ok Processor total : 2 Memory installed : 8192 MBytes ECC supported : Yes Sensor Location Temp Threshold ------ -------- ---- --------- #0 SYSTEM_BD - - #1 PROCESSOR_ZONE 40C/104F 62C/143F #2 CPU#1 46C/114F 80C/176F #3 I/O_ZONE 43C/109F 60C/140F #4 CPU#2 50C/122F 80C/176F #5 POWER_SUPPLY_BAY 32C/89F 50C/122F [root@example email]# echo $? 0
You can use “show dimm” to check details about the memory arrary. It’s more specific compared to dmidecode that we mentioned before:
hpasmcli> show dimm DIMM Configuration ------------------ Cartridge #: 0 Module #: 1 Present: Yes Form Factor: 9h Memory Type: 12h Size: 1024 MB Speed: 333 MHz Status: Ok Cartridge #: 0 Module #: 2 Present: Yes Form Factor: 9h ...
The other supported commands are listed here: CLEAR | DISABLE | ENABLE | EXIT | HELP | QUIT | SHOW. For example we can set the boot sequence at command-line mode like this:
hpasmcli> SET BOOT [enter] Invalid Arguments SET BOOT FIRST [ CDROM | FLOPPY | HDD | PXE | USBKEY ] SET BOOT ONCE [ CDROM | FLOPPY | HDD | PXE | RBSU ] hpasmcli> SET BOOT FIRST HDD
It can also be used to enable/disable Automatic Server Recovery, Processor Hyper-Threading, PXE BOOT on specified NIC and Wake-On-Lan feature, etc.
HPASMCLI manual page is avaiable on hp.com, and the binary itself is avaiable on ftp.compaq.com, and the installation itself is as easy as installing normal rpm. For any issues, dont forget to raise a thread at our support forum. 