Getting Started
UEFI System Utilities
What is UEFI?
UEFI System Utilities overview
Launching the System Utilities
Navigating the System Utilities
Navigating the System Utilities in GUI mode
When a reboot is required
System Utilities menu overview
Common setup and configuration FAQs
Updating firmware or system ROM
System Utilities main menu options
System Configuration
System Configuration menu options
BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU)
Using the iLO 5 Configuration Utility
iLO 5 Configuration Utility options
Network Options
Configuring Network Options
Advanced Network Options
Configuring Advanced Network Options
User Management
Add User
Adding new user accounts
Edit/Remove User
Editing or removing user accounts
Setting Options
Configuring access settings
Set to factory defaults
Resetting iLO to the factory default settings
Reset iLO
Resetting iLO active connections
About
Viewing information about iLO
Viewing and configuring embedded device information
Viewing controller information
Configure controller settings
Configure arrays
Disk Utilities
Setting bootable devices for Legacy Boot Mode
Viewing and configuring NIC and FCoE settings
One-Time Boot Menu
One-Time Boot Menu options
Selecting an option for a one-time boot
Embedded Applications
Launching the Embedded UEFI Shell
Viewing or clearing the Integrated Management Log
Downloading Active System Health data
Downloading an Active Health System Log
Logging in to Active Health System Viewer
Uploading an AHS log to AHSV
Embedded Diagnostics
Launching Embedded Diagnostics
Launching Intelligent Provisioning
System Information and System Health
System Information
Viewing System Information
Viewing System Health
Rebooting the system, selecting a language, and setting the browser mode
Rebooting the system
Exiting and resuming system boot
Rebooting the system
Selecting a language and browser mode
Selecting a system language
Selecting a browser mode
BIOS/Platform Configuration Options
Workload Profiles and performance options
Workload Profiles dependencies overview
Workload Profile Dependencies—Intel-based servers
Workload Profiles dependencies—AMD-based servers
Applying a Workload Profile
Changing dependent options after applying a profile
Changing System Options
Configuring Boot Time Optimizations
Setting Dynamic Power Capping Functionality
Enabling or disabling Extended Memory Test
Enabling or disabling Memory Fast Training
Setting the UEFI POST Discovery Mode
Enabling or disabling Memory Clear on Warm Reset
Configuring Serial Port Options
Assigning an Embedded Serial Port
Assigning a Virtual Serial Port
Mirroring serial console to a USB port
Configuring USB Options
Setting USB Control
Enabling or disabling USB Boot Support
Selecting the Removable Flash Media Boot Sequence
Enabling or disabling the Internal SD Card Slot
Configuring the IOS Serial Console and EMS
Enabling or disabling the BIOS Serial Console Port
Selecting the BIOS Serial Console Emulation Mode
Setting the BIOS Serial Console Baud Rate
Configuring EMS Console port settings
Configuring Server Availability
Enabling or disabling ASR
Setting the ASR timeout
Enabling or disabling Wake-On LAN
Setting the POST F1 prompt delay
Enabling or disabling momentary power button functionality
Setting the automatic power-on state
Setting the power-on delay
Setting the POST ASR
Setting the POST ASR Timer
Viewing and entering server asset information
Entering server information
Entering administrator information
Entering service contact information
Entering a custom POST message
Changing Processor Options
Enabling or disabling Intel Hyperthreading
Configuring Intel SGX control options
Setting the number of enabled processor cores
Enabling or disabling Processor x2APIC Support
Enabling AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT)
Configuring Performance Determinism Options
Selecting AMD Page Table Entry Speculative Lock Scheduling options
Changing Memory Options
Configuring memory remapping
Configuring Advanced Memory Protection
Configuring the Memory Refresh Rate
Configuring DRAM Burst Refresh Mode
Enabling or disabling channel interleaving
Configuring IMC Interleaving
Configuring AMD Interleaving
Setting Memory Interleave Size
Enabling or disabling Memory PStates
Configuring AMD Remap 1TB
Configuring AMD Periodic Directory Rinse
Setting the maximum memory bus frequency
Enabling or disabling Memory Patrol Scrubbing
Enabling or disabling node interleaving
Configuring AMD Secure Memory Encryption
Enabling or disabling Transparent Secure Memory Encryption
Configuring the memory mirroring mode
Configuring Opportunistic Self Refresh
Configuring Persistent Memory
Creating namespaces using UEFI System Utilities
Changing HPE Persistent Memory module passwords
Viewing the status of HPE Persistent Memory modules
Changing Performance Options using UEFI System Utilities
Sanitization with UEFI System Utilities
Changing the key management mode
Disabling encryption for an HPE Persistent Memory module
Configuring NVDIMM-N Options
NVDIMM-N Support
NVDIMM-N Sanitize/Erase on Next Reboot Policy
NVDIMM-N Interleaving
Changing Virtualization Options
Enabling or disabling Virtualization Technology
Enabling or disabling Intel VT-d
Enabling or disabling Access Control Service
Enabling or disabling SR-IOV
Setting the Minimum SEV ASID
Enabling AMD virtualization options
Enabling AMD Virtualization Technology
Changing Boot Options
Selecting the boot mode
Enabling or disabling UEFI Optimized Boot
Setting the boot order policy
Changing the UEFI Boot Order list
Controlling the UEFI boot order
Adding a boot option to the UEFI Boot Order list
Deleting boot options from the UEFI Boot Order list
Changing the Legacy BIOS Boot Order list
Changing Network Options
Network Boot Options
Setting the Pre-Boot Network Environment
Setting the IPv6 DHCP Unique Identifier method
Enabling or disabling Network Boot Retry Support
Enabling or disabling network boot for a NIC
Enabling or disabling PCIe Slot Network Boot
Setting HTTP support
Enabling iSCSI Policy (Gen10) or Software Initiator (Gen10 Plus)
Configuring Pre-Boot Network Settings
Pre-Boot Network Settings
Prerequisites for Boot from URL
iSCSI Boot Configuration
Adding an iSCSI initiator name
Adding an iSCSI boot attempt
Deleting iSCSI boot attempts
Viewing and modifying iSCSI boot attempt details
Configuring VLAN Configuration
Changing Storage Options
Enabling embedded chipset SATA controller support
Enabling SATA Secure Erase
Enabling SATA Sanitize
Setting the embedded storage boot policy
Setting the PCIe storage boot policy
Changing the default Fibre Channel/FCoE scanning policy
Enabling or disabling Embedded NVM Express Option ROM
Decommissioning NVM Express drives
Changing Power and Performance Options
Setting the Power Regulator mode
Configuring PCI Peer to Peer Serialization
Configuring IO Direct Cache
Setting the minimum processor idle power core C-State
Setting the Minimum Processor Idle Power Package C-State
Enabling or disabling Intel Turbo Boost Technology
Configuring AMD Core Performance Boost
Changing the AMD C-State Efficiency Mode
Setting the Energy/Performance Bias
Setting the Infinity Fabric Performance State
Enabling or disabling collaborative power control
Setting Intel DMI Link Frequency
Configuring AMD Preferred IO Device
Setting NUMA Group Size Optimization
Enabling or disabling Intel Performance Monitoring Support
Configuring Uncore Frequency Scaling
Setting UPI Bandwidth Optimization (RTID)
Enabling or disabling Sub-NUMA Clustering
Enabling or disabling the Energy Efficient Turbo option
Setting a Local/Remote Threshold
Setting the LLC Dead Line Allocation
Setting the Stale A to S
Disabling Processor Prefetcher Options
Enabling or disabling I/O Options
Enabling the ACPI SLIT options
Enabling Intel NIC DMA Channels options
Enabling Memory Proximity Reporting for I/O
Enabling or disabling I/O Non-posted Prefecting
Configuring Advanced Performance Tuning Options
Setting Direct to UPI Options
Setting Memory Channel Mode
Setting the Independent Channel Mode (Non-Lockstep)
Performance management
Setting the redundant power supply mode
Changing Embedded UEFI Shell Options
Enabling or disabling the Embedded UEFI Shell
Adding the Embedded UEFI Shell to the UEFI Boot Order list
Enabling or disabling automatic execution of the Embedded UEFI Shell startup script
Enabling and disabling the Physical Presence with Keystroke
Enabling or disabling Shell script verification
Setting the Embedded UEFI Shell startup script location
Enabling or disabling discovery of the Shell auto-start script using DHCP
Setting the network location for the Shell auto-start script
Changing Server Security settings
Server Security options
Setting the power-on password
Allowing login with iLO accounts
Setting an administrator password
Secure Boot
Enabling or disabling Secure Boot
Configuring server lock settings
Setting up Server Configuration Lock
Advanced Secure Boot Options
Viewing Advanced Secure Boot Options settings
Enrolling a Secure Boot certificate key or database signature
Deleting a Secure Boot certificate key or database signature
Deleting all keys
Exporting a Secure Boot certificate key or database signature
Exporting all Secure Boot certificate keys
Resetting a Secure Boot certificate key or database signature to platform defaults
Resetting all Secure Boot certificate keys to platform defaults
TLS (HTTPS) Options
Viewing TLS certificate details
Enrolling a TLS certificate
Deleting a TLS certificate
Deleting all TLS certificates
Exporting a TLS certificate
Exporting all TLS certificates
Resetting all TLS settings to platform defaults
Configuring advanced TLS security settings
Configuring Trusted Platform Module options
Setting TPM FIPS Mode Switch Operation
Enabling or disabling Intel TXT support
Enabling or disabling the One-Time Boot Menu F11 prompt
Enabling or disabling the Intelligent Provisioning F10 prompt
Enabling or disabling the System Intrusion Detection
Enabling or disabling processor AES-NI support
Enabling or disabling backup ROM image authentication
Changing PCIe Device Configuration options
Selecting advanced PCIe device settings
Configuring PCIe bifurcation options
Setting GPU Configurations
Selecting PCIe bifurcation options
Setting Maximum PCI Express Speed
Configuring NVMe PCIe Resource Padding
Configuring PCIe Slot to Processor Mapping
Enabling or disabling PCIe Device Isolation Support
Configuring PCIe Error Control
Configuring specific PCIe devices
Changing Advanced Options
Selecting a ROM image
Configuring an embedded video connection
Configuring Power Supply Requirements Override
Enabling or disabling Consistent Device Naming
Enabling or disabling mixed power supply reporting
Changing the POST video support settings
Enabling or disabling High Precision Event Timer (HPET) ACPI Support
Changing UEFI Power Supply Requirements
Setting the thermal configuration
Enabling or disabling thermal shutdown
Setting fan installation requirements messaging
Setting the fan failure policy
Enabling or disabling higher ambient temperature support
Re-entering a serial number
Re-entering a product ID
Configuring advanced debug options
Obtaining UEFI serial output log data with the UEFI System Utilities
Setting the Date and Time
Resetting system defaults
Restoring default system settings
Restoring default manufacturing settings
Changing the default UEFI device priority
Saving or erasing user default options
Using scripted configuration flows
Scripted configuration flow
iLO RESTful API support for UEFI
Configuration Replication Utility (CONREP)
HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSA)
UEFI Shell Commands
Using the UEFI Shell
Commands and capabilities
Accessing the Embedded UEFI Shell
Accessing the UEFI Shell from a serial console connection
UEFI Shell command reference
Custom Hewlett Packard Enterprise Shell commands
Command-line syntax examples
Command-line completion
Getting started with the UEFI Shell
Controlling command output
Displaying command help
Updating the firmware from the UEFI Embedded Shell
Switching to a file system from the Shell
Using common setup and configuration commands
UEFI Shell commands
acpiview
ahsdownload
alias
attrib
base64
boot
cd
cls
comp
compress
connect
cp
date
dblk
devices
devtree
dh
diags
disconnect
dmem
dmpstore
drivers
echo
edit
eficompress
efidecompress
exit
ftp
fwupdate
getmtc
getpcirom
goto
hash
help
ifconfig
ifconfig6
imlview
ipmctl
load
ls/dir
map
memmap
mkdir
mode
mv
openinfo
parse
partitions
pause
pci
ping
ping6
ramdisk
reconnect
reset
restclient
rm/del
secboot
sermode
set
setsize
shift
smbiosview
stall
sysconfig
sysinfo
tftp
time
timezone
tlsconfig
touch
type
unload
ver
vol
Webclient
Running and editing UEFI Shell scripts
Methods for invoking scripts
UEFI Shell Script Auto-Start configuration in the System Utilities
Manually invoking a Shell script
Exporting and importing settings to files
Editing Shell scripts
Sample UEFI Shell scripts
Application source code script
Start-up script
UEFI Programming Model
UEFI Shell command status codes
Troubleshooting
Cannot boot devices
Cannot restore system defaults
Cannot download the file in the network boot URL
Cannot network boot with the downloaded image file
Cannot deploy from the UEFI Shell script
Cannot execute Option ROM for one or more devices
Cannot find a new network or storage device in the Boot Order list
Intel TXT is not working properly
Invalid Server Serial Number and Product ID
Invalid time or date
Networking devices are not functioning properly
System unresponsive
Single Device Failure
Server will not boot
Smart Array controllers are not functioning properly
VMware not booting in UEFI mode
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