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  • 1.  Want Altiris tokens for HP blades

    Posted Mar 08, 2009 06:45 PM

    I'm writing a kickstart file to push VMware ESX out to a bunch of blades, using HP's RDP/Altiris.  I know there are tokens that get replaced at deploy time, but wouldn't it be nice if they were **DOCUMENTED** somewhere!?!??

    After much digging I found a list at http://www.appdeploy.com/faq/detail.asp?id=93, but it doesn't tell me what I need right now:  tokens for the rack name, enclosure name, and in particular the bay # for a blade in an HP c-class enclosure.

    Can somebody point me to docs for this, or just tell me the token for bay #?  Or the SQL syntax, if that's what it takes?

    Thanks!
    Gary



  • 2.  RE: Want Altiris tokens for HP blades

    Posted Mar 09, 2009 02:45 PM

    Check kb.altiris.com search article 27468

    or this link (ok i am no sure if the link works) https://kb.altiris.com/display/1n/kb/article.asp?aid=27468&n=1&s=

     

    --nelson



  • 3.  RE: Want Altiris tokens for HP blades
    Best Answer

    Posted Mar 09, 2009 11:27 PM

    Hmmm.  That does have a list of tokens -- thanks! -- but not any mention of bays.

    I dug around in the database a bit.  I don't know my way around SQL very well at all but I found tables named physical_bay, physical_enclosure, and physical_rack.  dbo.physical_bay has columns named real_name (the bay #) and computer_id.  Looks like this gets me what I want:

    %#*"select real_name from dbo.physical_bay where computer_id=%ID%"%

    Gary