- Start the Publisher (see Starting the Publisher).
- At the Logon window, type your administrator User ID and Password and click OK.
Note: Log in to the Publisher using the HPCA user name and password. By default, the user name is admin
and the password is secret
.
- In the Publishing Options area, select HP BIOS Configuration and click OK. The Select window opens.
- Select the BIOS settings file to publish. Two sample BIOS settings files (
HP desktop sample BIOS settings.txt and HP notebook sample BIOS settings.txt
) are included with the Publisher installation and located by default at: <InstallDir>\Agent\BIOS
.
- In the Current BIOS Admin Password area, type and then confirm a BIOS password if required. This is required to change any settings if the target devices have a BIOS password.
- If you want to change the current BIOS password, select Change BIOS Password, then type and confirm the new password. This is required only if you want to change the BIOS password on a client device.
- Click Next. The BIOS Options window opens.
- To select the BIOS settings to be publishes select the check box to the left of the BIOS setting names.
- If you need to change the value of a BIOS setting, click the setting name and adjust the available options as necessary.
- Click Next. The Application Information window opens.
- View, and if necessary, modify the application information. Application information is pre-determined based on what is available from the settings file.
- Click Next. The Summary window opens.
- Review the summary information. If it looks fine, click Publish.
- When the publishing process is complete, click Finish to close the Publisher.
The BIOS settings service is available in the Software library of the HPCA console.