HP ProLiant DL380e, User Manual

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Command Line Interface
Command Line Interface Overview
Both a full-screen, menu-driven user interface and a CLI are required to support both a Windows®/PC
background and a terminal/VT100 background. Full-screen, menu-driven utilities do not display correctly
on a VT100 interface because menus that get paged in and out require the entire screen to be redrawn.
CLI is being added to select newer servers because it provides a faster, more compatible solution for
VT100-compatible serial connections to servers using the BIOS Serial Console support.
Two basic commands, SET and SHOW, provide the foundation of the command tree wherever possible.
In addition, HELP can be accessed for commands, and EXIT or QUIT is used to exit the utility.
Dual-Mode ROM-Based Utilities
ROM-based utilities generically switch to run in either Windows® or VT100 mode to provide maximum
user benefit. RBSU also provides a user-configurable method for viewing and setting the console mode,
which is set before launching an Embedded ROM Utility remotely, through either a serial port connection
or iLO. The mode can also be set automatically.
CLI Mode Selection
On select newer servers, the BIOS automatically determines whether to run in CLI mode or full-screen,
menu-based mode for ROM embedded utilities. If a VT100-compatible terminal is being used with BIOS
Serial Console, CLI mode is selected for that boot. If BIOS Serial Console is disabled or not in use, the full-
screen, menu-based interface is used. You can force the utilities to always run in CLI mode by selecting
Command-Line Enable in the BIOS Interface Mode selection.
CQHCLI EV Value Description
0 = Command-Line Disable Disable CLI mode
1 = Command-Line Enable Always enable CLI mode
2 = Auto CLI Enable Auto determine CLI mode