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ProvisionDevice - bulkSetProvisionDevicePropertyValue


ProvisionDevice - bulkSetProvisionDevicePropertyValue

Description :

This command sets the value(s) of one or more properties of a device.

Set the propsFileURL argument to a valid java.net.URL that points to a text file on the application server that conforms to the java.util.Properties format. Property entries in this file should be as follows:

Device.<prop_name>=<value>

where <prop_name> is the name of a device property.

For example, to set a device's architecture to x86, you would add the following line to props.txt:

Device.ARCHITECTURE=x86

This command returns the device ID of the device whose properties you set.

Note : 1. Cannot use this command to set a device's description. Instead use setDescription 2. Cannot use this command to set a device's architecture of PXE Device. Instead use setPxeDeviceArch

Return type : Integer

Command Input :

Variable Name

Variable Type

Description

macAddress

String

MAC address of the device to be re-provisioned.

Format the MAC address as a hex string, separated with dashes, colons, or spaces (for example, 00-0B-CD-1B-E0-44). Alphabetic characters must be in upper case.

propsFileURL

String

URL to the input file on the BMC Server Automation Application Server that contains device properties.

Example

This example shows how to set the SERIAL_NUMBER property for a PXE device having a MAC address 00-00-29-3F-08-86. The 'props.txt' file contains the following :

Device.SERIAL_NUMBER=273J836S

Script


ProvisionDevice bulkSetProvisionDevicePropertyValue 00-00-29-3F-08-86 file:///c:/props.txt



 

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BMC Server Automation Command Line Interface 8.5