User manual HP VECTRA VL600

[. . . ] In either case, you can access the Driver/Firmware features of Toptools Device Manager by creating a "mirror" of HP's FTP server on your own network. Once you have created a local RMDB containing the correct directory structure and the files are copied from the HP server, it can be addressed by Toptools Device Manager just as if it were HP's support website RMDB. This solution ensures that the automatic process for downloading and registering BIOS, diagnostics, Setting Up Your Local FTP Server To set up an emulation of HP's FTP server on your own network that is able to supply RMDB data when Toptools Device Manager requires it, you must first create the local FTP server. Proceed as follows: Windows NT 1 Set up your Toptools management server as an FTP server. [. . . ] Therefore, you must re-run the installation of NT Option Pack to install the FTP server. Do this from either: a Your Toptools CD-ROM (program SETUP. EXE in the directory PWS or IIS, depending on whether you are running Windows NT 4. 0 Workstation or NT 4. 0 Server, respectively, or 1 An example of values in the Windows NT Registry Key "DesktopPCs" 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). b From Microsoft's web site (currently http://www. microsoft. com/ windows/downloads/default. asp) where you need to select NT Workstation or Server, and then NT 4. 0 Option Pack). 2 Select Add/Remove, then in the list of components select Personal Web Server (on NT Workstation) or Internet Information Server (on NT Server) and click on show subcomponents. In the list of subcomponents, select the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. Complete the installation by clicking on the OK and Next buttons. 3 Create the following directories on your FTP server (Toptools management server): a Create a directory, for example: . . \inetpub\ftproot\hppackages 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 . . d In Details, ensure that Common files and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server are both selected (check the box next to each of these). e Click on Next to continue the installation of Windows components. You will be asked to insert a Windows 2000 CD-ROM, such as the HP Image Creation and Recovery CD-ROM. f Click on Finish to complete the installation. g Right click on My Computer and select Manage from the drop down list of options. h In the Management window, select Services and Applications> Internet Information Services > Default FTP Site. 2 Create the necessary directories on your FTP server (Toptools management server). The process is exactly as described for Windows NT on page 2, step 3. 3 Manually Importing a System Software Package to your Database The normal way of obtaining a PC system software package is via the Download Package button in Toptools. However, if you have downloaded a package manually from the HP site, it is possible to add it to the RMDB using the following manual procedure: 1 On the Toptools device manager server, create a subdirectory, let us call it <MyPackage> under <Toptools_root>\Data\Packages, where <Toptools_root> is the directory where Toptools has been installed (by default this is C:\Program Files\hptt). 2 The package you downloaded is a self-extracting executable. Run it and when prompted, tell it to expand the files to the directory <MyPackage> that you just created. 3 Open a command prompt window on the Toptools server and type these commands: CD <Toptools_root>\BIN followed by: TTUpdateRMDB. exe -hpinfo <Toptools_root> \Data\Packages\<MyPackage> (this must be typed as a single command line) where: <Toptools_root> is the short path to the root directory where Toptools has been installed (by default C:\PROGRA~1\HPTT) <MyPackage> is the name of the subdirectory where you expanded the package. [. . . ] For example: TTUpdateRMDB. exe -hpinfo C:\PROGRA~1\HPTT\DATA\PACKAGES \MYPACKAGE 4 The package will be installed in the RMDB for use with the usual Manage Driver/Firmware commands in Toptools. Scheduling an Automatic Update of the RMDB If you need to set up an automatic update of your Revision Management Database: 1 Open the Microsoft Task Scheduler program on the Toptools device manager server. · To open the Windows 2000 Task Scheduler, click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Scheduled Task. To open the Windows NT Task Scheduler click on My Computer > Scheduled Tasks. · 2 Click on Add Scheduled Task. 3 You will be prompted for the name of the executable file to schedule. Select TTupdateRMDB. exe located in the directory <Toptools_root>\hptt\bin Note: <Toptools_root> is the directory where Toptools has been installed. [. . . ]