Creating An Sstk Boot Image; Editing The Sstkstart.cmd File - HP BL860c Administrator's Manual

2 Creating an SSTK boot image

After you set up the workstation, you create an SSTK boot image. The boot image starts the target
server in order to execute an SSTK action.
NOTE: The network location of the SSTK repository share is configured in the boot image. If you
want to change or access a different repository share, you must edit the SSTKStart.cmd file and
create the boot image again.
Creating a boot image consists of the following tasks:
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Editing the SSTKStart.cmd file.

2. Installing OEM drivers in the boot image.
3. Creating the boot image
4. Setting up the boot mechanism
This chapter describes these tasks.
Editing the SSTKStart.cmd file
The SSTKStart.cmd file is the SSTK bootstrap file that contains information for accessing the
repository share and for initializing the deployment process.
NOTE: You must edit the boot\SSTKStart.cmd file before creating an SSTK boot image.
The file contains the following variables.
repository_name
share_name
repository_user
repository_password
repository_encrypted_pass
repository_letter
A sample SSTKStart.cmd script is as follows:
repository_name=192.168.0.220
share_name=sstk_repository
repository_user=Administrator
rem repository_password=
repository_encrypted_pass=a89ea897a9aa9ea298
repository_letter=y:
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Specifies the hostname or IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) of the
system that hosts the repository.
Specifies the name of the directory marked as shared on
the repository system.
Specifies the user name to access the repository share. The
format is username or domain\username.
Specifies the password (in plain text) for the user on the
repository system.
Specifies the encrypted password generated by
sstkencrypt utility (see
password" (page
NOTE: The repository password can be a plain text
password or an encrypted password. If you decide to use
a plain password, you must comment the encrypted
password variable and set the plain password properly. For
information on encrypting the repository password, see
"Encrypting the repository password" (page
Specifies the letter to which to map the repository share.
The default is y:.
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