Toptools Agent Utilities; Asset Configurator; Hp Windows Bios Configurator - HP Vectra E-Vectra Deployment Manual

11 Toptools Agent Utilities

11.1 Asset Configurator

The HP Toptools Asset Configurator is a software utility that can be used to assign different values to the
asset management attributes of each managed PC. It is intended to be used before Toptools. Once the
Asset Configurator has run, Toptools can be used to provide reports containing the values of the asset
attributes for all the managed PCs.
The Asset Configurator software is supplied on the HP support website at
http://www.HP.com/go/vectrasupport. It supports Windows 9x, NT4 SP3 or higher, and Windows 2000. It
can be run on the managed PCs either before or after Toptools for Desktops 5.0 DMI or WMI Agent is
installed.
The Asset Configurator is run on each PC using a command line such as:
ASSETCFG.EXE <Path to CSV file> <Path to log file> where:
- Path to CSV file is the complete path to a file in Comma Separated Variable (.CSV) format,
containing the list of target PCs, one line per PC, and one column per attribute. Thus a single
CSV file can be used to run on all managed PCs. The syntax of the CSV file is described
below.
- Path to log file specifies the file name for the log file produced by the program.
The asset attributes that the Asset Configurator can set are:
- System Name
- System Physical Location
- System User Name (except on Windows 2000)
- System User Phone
- PC Asset Number
- Software Image Identifier
- Leasing Contract Number
- Lease Expiration Date
- Monitor Serial Number
- Monitor Asset Number
- HP Support URL
The exact syntax of each line in the CSV file is as follows:
<Key>,<System Name>,...,<HP Support URL>
where Key is either the IP address or hostname of the PC.

11.2 HP Windows BIOS Configurator

This tool will be available on the HP website at
The HP Windows BIOS Configurator is a stand-alone utility which allows you to set certain BIOS-level
attributes on each managed PC. It can be useful to ensure, for instance, that all managed PCs have the
same BIOS settings. This program does not require that HP Toptools for Desktops Agent is installed on
the target PCs. In fact, it uses the same technologies as the Toptools Agent. It runs on the client PC as a
command line program using a parameter file.
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