HP 742n - Pavilion - 512 MB RAM Application Note page 3

An example of values in the
Windows NT Registry Key
"DesktopPCs"
b From Microsoft's web site (currently
http://www.microsoft.com/
windows/downloads/default.asp)
where you need to select
, and then
Server
2 Select Add/Remove , then in the list of components
select Personal Web Server
Internet Information Server
on show subcomponents
select the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server
the installation by clicking on the
buttons.
3 Create the following directories on your FTP server
(Toptools management server):
a Create a directory, for example:
\inetpub\ftproot\hppackages
..
Placing this directory in the path
\inetpub\ftproot\ will make it
..
available from FTP with no further action
required.
b Under ..\hppackages, create a
subdirectory named ToptoolsRMDB.
4 Copy files from the HP FTP server to your server:
a Your hppackages directory is:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/ccd/[filename]
Copy the following two files to the directory:
ToptoolsRMDB.txt
TOPTOOLSRMDB.EXE
b Copy the contents of the directory
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/ccd
/ToptoolsRMDB/
to your subdirectory ToptoolsRMDB
2
Use a registry editor to alter the values in "DBaseURLBase" and in "URL" as shown here,
so that they point to "ToptoolsRMDB" and "Toptools RMDB.txt" on your server (see Step
5 below).
NT Workstation or
).
NT 4.0 Option Pack
(on NT Workstation) or
(on NT Server) and click
. In the list of subcomponents,
. Complete
and
OK Next
.
5 Change the Registry to make the Toptools Device
Manager point to your server:
On your Toptools Device Manager server use either
REGEDIT.EXE or REGEDT32.EXE to edit the
following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
\Hewlett-Packard\Toptools
\CoreComponent\RmDb\DesktopPCs
Change the string value of the field URL in this key
so that it points to the file ToptoolsRMDB.txt
on your own server. Change the string value of the
field DBaseURLBase so that it points to the
directory hppackages/ToptoolsRMDB/
where you copied all the driver packages.
When done, the contents of the key DesktopPCs
should look as shown above.
6 Edit the file ToptoolsRMDB.txt so that the
URL it contains points to the file
ToptoolsRMDB.exe on your server.
The file should contain one line as follows:
<Version Number> full ftp:
//<MyServer>/hppackages/TOPTOOLSRMDB.E
XE
(in the above one-line address there are no spaces in
the term .. ftp:// ..)
7 Install the packages on your management server:
Using the Toptools Device Manager, click on the
button and select
Settings
menu. In the main browser frame, click on the button
. This will install the downloaded database
Update Now
for use with Toptools. Then you can install each
software package referenced in the database by
clicking on the
Download Package...
from the
Drivers/FirmWare
button.