IBM Carrier Grade X3650 T User Manual

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IBM® Carrier Grade Server X3650 TRevision 3.0368. Creating System Settings FilesThe SysCon feature allows the user to configure multiple system components using Extensible MarkupLanguage (XML) syntax. XML schema files (or XSDs) that describe the XML element types and valueconstraints for each component are provided on the SysCon Device.To setup the SysCon Device so that user-specified settings are applied on the next system boot, the usermust create an XML file with the desired settings in the “user-specified” SysCon folder for the system.APPENDIX C – System Settings File Format contains a listing of the supported system settings bycomponent type and example XML files for establishing user-specified settings.The user may use any text editing tool to edit the system settings file and change the value of the XMLelements corresponding to the component settings. It is recommended that the user validate theresulting settings file using the XML schema provided. Non-valid XML elements may have unpredictableresults when processed by the SysCon scripts. Errors generated during SysCon processing can befound in the log.xml file located in sysconenv\data\config\thisSystem folder of the SysConDevice.8.1 Encrypting Settings DataIf desired, the user may encrypt component settings data in order to protect sensitive data that mayappear in settings files. The SysconCipher.py utility provides a means for encrypting XML settings filesthat are stored in the ‘specified’ folder:Note: Although cipher will work on any XML file where the Xpath for the element is found, the deciphercode is only performed for Settings files found in the 'specified' folder.SysconCipher is invoked as follows:python SysconCipher.py ciphertemplate sourceFile elementsToEncryptExample:python SysconCipher.py ciphertemplate.xml settings.xml \/config:Settings/config:ComponentSettings/syscfg:BIOSV001 \/bios:SecurityV001The following is a Windows cmd batch file that encrypts a settings file twice, with the second passencrypting the root element of the XML document. Note that the decipher code recursively decrypts untilall elements are decrypted.echo offset cwfs=%CD%set Path=.;%cwfs%\sysconenv\syscon\Windows;%Path%set \PYTHONPATH=.;./sysconenv/syscon/python1.5/Lib;./sysconenv/syscon/python1.5python sysconenv/syscon/python1.5/SysconCipher.pyc \sysconenv\data\common\ciphertemplate.xml \sysconenv\data\config\thisSystem\specified\applied\Intel-settings.xml \