Post By Martin 1 Comment
February 2009 03

My ILO’s on its holidays – come back later

I remain an avid fan of HP’s ILO (it’s lights out card) for a number of reasons, it’s easy to configure, easy to use and generally doesn’t give me any problems.

Every now and again however, I’ve been experiencing an issue on  the odd DL580 G2′s and DL380G3 where when I run the ILO config script (which is very cool) to configure the ILO and it comes back with an error saying it cannot connect to the lights out (or a varient of that message). I then reboot the server and wait for the configure ilo screen on post to press F8 and it doesn’t appear.  It’s as if the ILO has failed? 

I’m off to find out how to fix it, I’m reluctant to swap the board for an ILO, the drivers are installed and look fine, it’s as if the driver can’t talk to the ilo? The online firmware utility also doesn’t work. If you’ve had this and know a fix other than replacing the system board, do let me know, I’d be most interested.




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  1. Jaremy says:
    February 4, 2009 at 08:12

    I have a couple of BL35p systems doing the same thing. This is the older iLO and (IIRC) currently running 1.91 or possibly 1.92. I can't reach the iLO https page or update the firmware via the version control update process. With my p-class blades, the issue won't be too bad since they include a chassis with the replacement system board, but I can understand not wanting to change your DL boards. Hopefully someone has a better solution.
    On a side note, upgrading to 1.93 cleared out my bogus red health indicator lights on multiple p-class :-)

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