HP Ilo 4 User Guide
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Fortheschema-freeconfiguration.............................................................................280 ForHPextendedschema.........................................................................................280 Snap-ininstallationandinitializationforActiveDirectory..................................................280 CreatingandconfiguringdirectoryobjectsforusewithiLOinActiveDirectory....................281...
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iLOmanagementportnotaccessiblebyname.....................................................................318 iLORBSUunavailableafteriLOandserverreset...................................................................318 Unabletoaccesstheloginpage........................................................................................318 SecureConnectionFailederrorwhenusingFirefoxbrowser...................................................318...
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iLOsessionendsunexpectedlyduringiLOInsightOnlinedirectconnectregistration..................331 HPremotesupportregistrationfailsonserversthatuseNICteaming......................................331 TroubleshootingiLOFederationManagementissues..................................................................331 QueryerrorsoccuroniLOFederationpages.......................................................................331...
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hpqLOMRightLocalUserAdmin............................................................................................349 hpqLOMRightConfigureSettings..........................................................................................349 Glossary..................................................................................................350 Index.......................................................................................................354 14Contents
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1IntroductiontoiLO Overview TheHPiLOsubsystemisastandardcomponentofHPProLiantserversthatsimplifiesinitialserver setup,serverhealthmonitoring,powerandthermaloptimization,andremoteserveradministration. TheHPiLOsubsystemincludesanintelligentmicroprocessor,securememory,andadedicated networkinterface.ThisdesignmakesHPiLOindependentofthehostserveranditsoperating system. HPiLOenablesandmanagestheActiveHealthSystemandalsofeaturesAgentlessManagement....
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iLOwebinterface TheiLOwebinterfacegroupssimilartasksforeasynavigationandworkflow.Theinterfaceis organizedinanavigationaltreeviewlocatedontheleftsideofthepage.Thetop-levelbranches areInformation,iLOFederation,RemoteConsole,VirtualMedia,PowerManagement,Network, RemoteSupport,andAdministration.IfyouhaveaProLiantserverblade,theBLc-Classbranchis included.WhenaremotemanagementtoolisusedwithiLO,thebranchisincluded. WhenusingtheiLOwebinterface,notethefollowing:...
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oftheserveratalltimesaslongastheserverispluggedin.Forexample,youcanaccesstheserver whenitisinahealthystateorwhenitispoweredoffwithablankharddrive.AsanITadministrator, youcantroubleshootproblemsandperformsoftwaredeploymentsfromalmostanywhere. FormoreinformationabouttheiLOmobileapp,seehttp://www.hp.com/go/ilo/mobileapp. iLOscriptingandcommandline YoucanusetheiLOscriptingtoolstoconfiguremultipleiLOsystems,toincorporateastandard configurationintothedeploymentprocess,andtocontrolserversandsubsystems....
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2SettingupiLO Overview TheiLOdefaultsettingsenableyoutousemostfeatureswithoutadditionalconfiguration.However, theconfigurationflexibilityofiLOenablescustomizationformultipleenterpriseenvironments.This chapterdiscussestheinitialiLOsetupsteps.Forinformationaboutadditionalconfigurationoptions, see“ConfiguringiLO”(page37). Completetheinitialsetupsteps: 1.Decidehowyouwanttohandlenetworkingandsecurity. Formoreinformation,see“PreparingtosetupiLO”(page18). 2.ConnectiLOtothenetwork....
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HowwilliLOacquireanIPaddress? ToaccessiLOafterconnectingittothenetwork,theiLOmanagementprocessormustacquirean IPaddressandsubnetmaskbyusingeitheradynamicorstaticprocess. •AdynamicIPaddressissetbydefault.iLOobtainstheIPaddressandsubnetmaskfromDNS orDHCPservers.Thismethodisthesimplest. •AstaticIPaddressisusedifDNSorDHCPserversarenotavailableonthenetwork.Astatic IPaddresscanbeconfiguredbyusingiLORBSUortheiLO4ConfigurationUtility.Formore...
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seetheHPScriptingToolkitforLinuxUserGuideandtheHPScriptingToolkitforWindows UserGuide. •Scripting—YoucanusescriptingforadvancedsetupofmultipleiLOmanagementprocessors. ScriptsareXMLfileswrittenforascriptinglanguagecalledRIBCL.YoucanuseRIBCLscripts toconfigureiLOonthenetworkduringinitialdeploymentorfromadeployedhost. Thefollowingmethodsareavailable: ◦HPLights-OutConfigurationUtility(HPQLOCFG)—TheHPQLOCFG.EXEutilityreplaces thepreviouslyusedCPQLOCFG.EXEutility.ItisaWindowscommandlineutilitythat...