At first I thought this was a fluke, but I've now built well over 50 of these servers and I can't seem to find a solution. We are deploying HP DL360 G7's. Before you used to be able to hit F8 during boot up to enter into a ROM based setup utility for iLO. However now it simply shows a mention of iLO during POST, but you don't get a chance to press F8. Even if you spam the F8 key, you'll see the briefest flash of the "Press F8 to Configure" message which almost immediately disappears. It then continues on through POST. Has anyone else had this issue? Is there any way to resolve it? I have 17 servers I need to build today and the online config tool isn't an option (in an isolated build environment). Any help would be very much appreciated, thank you.
I'm working in a new environment that makes heavy use of serial console servers for server management. They are augmented with switched PDUs for power management. They are not using the DRAC capabilities of the existing servers.
I'm adding new HP ProLiant equipment to the site, and am curious as to the benefits of serial consoles versus the ILO/ILOM/DRAC technologies available on modern servers. This is a Linux environment that will grow to include more Windows systems. I'll be running a mixture of blades and DL380's. Assume fully-licensed/enabled versions of ILO/DRAC on any future equipment.
I've configured serial consoles in the past, and have found them particularly useful for network gear. I'm confused as to their advantage or usefulness in an environment where the servers will have onboard lights-out management.
I have a HP server that has ILO port. How can i configure it to use from remote location? server os is debian-squeez.
I am wondering if iLO is safe enough to be hung on the WAN, I looked for some articles but could not find any ?
How do you guys secure iLO ? Do you put it behind a firewall ?
Would you use a firewall that can be accessed from the WAN using iLO ?
I'm working on a remote server installation entirely through ILO (but this also applies to IPMI and VMWare console sessions). Due to the software application and environment, my access is restricted to a Windows server that I must access through RDP. Going from that system to the target server is accomplished via HP ILO2 or ILO3.
I'm trying to run a CentOS installation in an environment where I can't use a fully-automated deployment system. I'm doing this via text mode, but the keystrokes are repeating randomly and it's difficult to select the proper installation options. For example:
ks=http://all.yourbase.org/kickstart/ks.cfg
ends up looking like:
ks====httttttp://allll..yourbaseee.....org/kicksstart/ks.cccfg
I'm doing this using Microsoft's RDP client (on Mac and Windows). I've also noticed this before when running installations or doing remote work in nested sessions.
Is there a nice fix for this, or it it simply a function of the protocol(s)?