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.

 

[tommiie]

I remember iLO as being a web application requiring some version of Java and not supporting SSH. I hope things have improved since then. I still have nightmares about Java version issues with Cisco ASDM.

 

[shahinco]

We are use IPMI..

 

[SirDice]

DRAC, iLO, IPMI, or any kind of BMC can be a lifesaver. I hate when you have to pay a license fee to be able to use it though.

I remember iLO as being a web application requiring some version of Java

Older versions of IPMI used a Java webstart application for remote console, newer versions use HTML5 and don't require Java anymore.

 

[gpw928]

DRAC, iLO, IPMI, or any kind of BMC can be a lifesaver.

They are pretty much essential once the scale of a data centre gets "sufficiently large".

 

[SirDice]

They are pretty much essential once the scale of a data centre gets "sufficiently large".

Even on small scale it can make the difference between an hour's drive to and from the datacenter to fix some stupid error, or just me staying at home, with my cats. Fix the issue and move on.