What do you think about HPE iLO?

[RetroComputingCollector]

What do you think about iLO? Have you ever used it? I am just curious as I use it extensively, but I don't know if everyone likes it as much as I do.

 

[Phishfry]

I find it cool that you can add iLO to the HP Microserver. That is unique.

What I find interesting is that most server board manufacturers seems to have standardized on Redfish.

Redfish (specification) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

I find it cool that you can add iLO to the HP Microserver. That is unique.

What I find interesting is that most server board manufacturers seems to have standardized on Redfish.

Redfish (specification) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

My microserver has iLO and a serial port! I don't even know where you'd get a terminal.

 

[Phishfry]

I don't even know where you'd get a terminal.

Most BMC use web based interface. Terminal is used at OS level with IPMI.

Start an nmap search and look at the devices. I don't know if they share over ethernet or serial. Also serial over LAN is a thing for OOB managment.

 

[tingo]

The older versions* of iLO (up to iLO 4) has a web based terminal built in, but it requires a web browser with an old, unsupported version of java and plugin. Workarounds exist, but I'm not certain it is possible to rework them for FreeBSD:

GitHub - niclan/Javafox: Dockerfile to build a Ubuntu image with Firefox and Java to enable java web pages such as HP iLO and other dated BMCs

Dockerfile to build a Ubuntu image with Firefox and Java to enable java web pages such as HP iLO and other dated BMCs - niclan/Javafox

github.com

https://hub.docker.com/r/brafsn/firefox-ilo

GitHub - sshnaidm/docker-ilo-client: Firefox client to HP ILO server

Firefox client to HP ILO server. Contribute to sshnaidm/docker-ilo-client development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

also, you can ssh to you iLO, but you have to tell ssh to allow the right ciphers. I don't remember off hand how I did that.

*) newer version probably have this functionality too, but I haven't used them.

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

Most BMC use web based interface. Terminal is used at OS level with IPMI.

Start an nmap search and look at the devices. I don't know if they share over ethernet or serial. Also serial over LAN is a thing for OOB managment.

I meant a dedicated terminal, like a DEC VT100.

 

[bgavin]

When I was a sysadmin at HP, I found ILO to be of critical value.