HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 User Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Setting up iLO 2
- 3 Configuring iLO 2
- iLO 2 configuration overview
- Upgrading iLO 2 firmware
- Licensing
- User administration
- Configuring iLO 2 access
- Security
- Network
- SNMP/Insight Manager settings
- ProLiant BL p-Class configuration
- 4 Using iLO 2
- System status and status summary information
- iLO 2 Remote Console
- Remote Console overview and licensing options
- Remote Console settings
- IRC Fullscreen
- Integrated Remote Console option
- Multi-user access to the Integrated Remote Console
- Using Console Capture
- Using HP iLO Video Player
- Acquiring the Remote Console
- Remote Console
- Text-based remote console overview
- Virtual media
- Power management
- ProLiant BL p-Class Advanced management
- ProLiant BladeSystem HP Onboard Administrator
- 5 Directory services
- Overview of directory integration
- Benefits of directory integration
- Advantages and disadvantages of schema-free directories and HP schema directory
- Setting up Schema-free directory integration
- Setting up HP schema directory integration
- Features supported by HP schema directory integration
- Setting up directory services
- Schema documentation
- Directory services support
- Schema required software
- Schema installer
- Management snap-in installer
- Directory services for Active Directory
- Active Directory installation prerequisites
- Installing Active Directory on Windows Server 2008
- Directory services preparation for Active Directory
- Snap-in installation and initialization for Active Directory
- Example: Creating and configuring directory objects for use with iLO 2 in Active Directory
- Directory services objects
- Active Directory Lights-Out management
- Directory services for eDirectory
- User login using directory services
- Directory-enabled remote management
- HPQLOMIG directory migration utility
- Introduction to HPQLOMIG utility
- Compatibility
- HP Lights-Out directory package
- Using HPQLOMIG
- Finding management processors
- Upgrading firmware on management processors
- Selecting a directory access method
- Naming management processors
- Configuring directories when HP Extended schema is selected
- Configuring directories when schema-free integration is selected
- Setting up management processors for directories
- Directory services schema
- 6 HP Systems Insight Manager integration
- 7 Troubleshooting iLO 2
- iLO 2 POST LED indicators
- Event log entries
- Hardware and software link-related issues
- JVM support
- Login issues
- Login name and password not accepted
- Directory user premature logout
- iLO 2 Management Port not accessible by name
- iLO 2 RBSU unavailable after iLO 2 and server reset
- Inability to access the login page
- Inability to access iLO 2 using Telnet
- Inability to access virtual media or graphical remote console
- Inability to connect to iLO 2 after changing network settings
- Inability to connect to the iLO 2 Diagnostic Port
- Inability to connect to the iLO 2 processor through the NIC
- Inability to log in to iLO 2 after installing the iLO 2 certificate
- Firewall issues
- Proxy server issues
- Two-factor authentication error
- Troubleshooting alert and trap issues
- Troubleshooting directory issues
- Troubleshooting Remote Console issues
- Remote Console applet has a red X when running Linux client browser
- Inability to navigate the single cursor of the Remote Console to corners of the Remote Console window
- Remote Console no longer opens on the existing browser session
- Remote console text window not updating properly
- Remote Console turns gray or black
- Remote Serial Console troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Integrated Remote Console issues
- Internet Explorer 7 and a flickering remote console screen
- Configuring Apache to accept exported capture buffers
- No console replay while server is powered down
- Skipping information during boot and fault buffer playback
- Out of Memory error starting Integrated Remote Console
- Session leader does not receive connection request when IRC is in replay mode
- Keyboard LED does not display correctly
- Inactive IRC
- IRC Failed to connect to server error message
- IRC toolbar icons do not update
- GNOME interface does not lock
- Repeating keys on the Remote Console
- Remote Console playback does not work when the host server is powered off
- Troubleshooting SSH and Telnet issues
- Troubleshooting terminal services issues
- Troubleshooting video and monitor issues
- Troubleshooting Virtual Media issues
- Troubleshooting iLO Video Player issues
- Troubleshooting Remote Text Console issues
- Troubleshooting miscellaneous issues
- Cookie sharing between browser instances and iLO 2
- Inability to access ActiveX downloads
- Inability to get SNMP information from HP SIM
- Incorrect time or date of the entries in the event log
- Inability to upgrade iLO 2 firmware
- iLO 2 network flash recovery
- Recovering from a bad iLO 2 flash image using network flash recovery
- Recovering from a bad iLO 2 flash image using the HP Smart Update Firmware DVD
- The iLO 2 firmware does not respond to SSL requests
- Testing SSL
- Resetting iLO 2
- Server name still present after ERASE utility is executed
- Troubleshooting a remote host
- 8 Technical support
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Index
1 Overview
The iLO 2 firmware provides multiple ways to configure, update, and operate servers remotely.
The HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 User Guide describes these features and how to use them with the
browser-based interface and RBSU. Some features are licensed features and may only be accessed
after purchasing an optional license. For more information, see “Licensing” (page 26).
The HP Integrated Lights-Out Management Processor Scripting and Command Line Resource Guide
describes the syntax and tools available to use iLO 2 through a command-line or scripted interface.
Click the link for the guide http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/
DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&lang=en&cc=us&docIndexId=64179&
taskId=135&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=1146658.
This manual discusses HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 firmware version 2.06 for ProLiant ML/DL servers,
as well as ProLiant BladeSystem server blades.
New in this release of iLO 2
The iLO 2 firmware, version 2.06 adds:
• Support for certificate subject name customization
• Support for 2048-bit length private keys
• Java 64 bit support for browsers and JVM/JRE
• Added the Brown-out Recovery feature
• Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9
iLO 2 Overview
The iLO 2 firmware can remotely perform most functions that otherwise require a visit to servers at
the data center, computer room, or remote location. The following are just a few of the iLO 2
features.
• Remote Console and virtual power – Enables you to view a stalled remote server with blue
screen conditions and restart the server without onsite assistance.
• Remote Console – Enables you to change BIOS settings when necessary.
• Virtual KVM technology – Provides a high-performance remote console that enables you to
remotely administer operating systems and applications in everyday situations.
• Virtual CD/DVD or floppy – Enables you to install an operating system or flash system firmware
over the network from images on your workstations or on centralized web servers.
• Virtual Folder – Enables you to update operating system drivers or copy system files without
physical media or creating a disk image.
• Scripting – Enables you to use virtual power and virtual media in other scripting tools to
automate deployment and provisioning.
• Active participation in monitoring and maintaining server health, referred to as embedded
health. iLO 2 monitors temperatures in the server and sends corrective signals to the fans to
maintain proper server cooling. In addition to temperature monitoring, iLO 2 provides fan
status monitoring and monitoring of the status of the power supplies, voltage regulators, and
the internal hard drives.
These examples are just a few ways iLO 2 is used to manage HP ProLiant servers from your office,
home, or travel location. As you begin using iLO 2 and defining your specific infrastructure
requirements, refer to this guide for additional ways to simplify your remote server management
needs.
For information about the features available in each version of iLO 2, see “Licensing” (page 26).
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