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Reset HP ILO Via the Command Line

/ Christopher Paquin / 6 Comments

Gary_the_snail Its not unheard of that an HP ILO (Integrated Lights Out) can become sick and slow down to a crawl. When this occurs, a restart of the ILO is in order, which is easily accomplished via the ILO cli interface. Note that you need to make sure that that you have enabled ssh access in ilo.

The steps to reset an ilo via ssh are below.

</>hpiLO-> cd /map1
status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED

</map1>hpiLO-> reset
status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED
Resetting iLO.

CLI session stopped

Additional Resources:

http://fatmin.com/2011/06/13/redirect-linux-console-to-hp-ilo-via-ssh/

http://www.thevirtualway.it/en/?p=985

http://setaoffice.com/2010/07/17/connecting-to-hp-ilo-using-the-command-line/

ProLiant System Management Homepage

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Prod-shot-170x190 The HP Systems management homepage is a web based utility for managing and monitoring Proliant Servers. It can be installed via the ProLiant Support Pack DVD (on linux its just an rpm). Once installed you can modify the default settings via the perl script, hpSMHSetup.pl located in /usr/local/hp.

To access your server's homepage navigate to https://<yourhostname&gt;:2381 in your browser. You must include the https:// part of the url. Use your root user and password to access.

From the homepage you can monitor system, subsystems and status views of your server. Any critical, major, minor, or warning alerts will appear in the Overall Status Summary.

 

Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010

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If you are having issues with your HP server and were thinking about calling support, you might as well put down the phone. Seems to me that their default first step of troubleshooting is to advise you to upgrade to the latest firmware.

According to HP support these were both release just a couple of days ago. Links are below. Firmware DVD is just that, firmware. Smart Start is drivers and diagnostics.

 

Firmware DVD

Smart Start DVD