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
Hardware and software link-related issues
iLO 2 uses standard Ethernet cabling, which includes CAT5 UTP with RJ-45 connectors.
Straight-through cabling is necessary for a hardware link to a standard Ethernet hub. Use a crossover
cable for a direct PC connection.
The iLO 2 Management Port must be connected to a network that is connected to a DHCP server,
and iLO 2 must be on the network before power is applied. DHCP sends a request soon after
power is applied. If the DHCP request is not answered when iLO 2 first boots, then it will reissue
the request at 90-second intervals.
The DHCP server must be configured to supply DNS and WINS name resolution. iLO 2 can be
configured to work with a static IP address either in the F8 option ROM setup or from the Network
Settings Web page.
The default DNS name appears on the network settings tag and can be used to locate iLO 2 without
knowing the assigned IP address.
If a direct connection to a PC is used, then a static IP address must be used because there is no
DHCP server on the link.
Within the iLO 2 RBSU, to view the status of iLO 2 DHCP requests, you can press the F1 key inside
the DNS/DHCP page for advanced options.
JVM support
To ensure that the iLO 2 Remote Console applet and Virtual Media applet operate as expected,
install Java Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.4.2_13. The iLO 2 firmware now supports
64-bit Java for browsers and JVM/JRE. To locate the link to the latest supported version of JRE,
from the iLO 2 browser interface, select Remote Console>Settings>Java.
The iLO 2 Remote Console, Remote Serial Console, and Virtual Media applets require that JVM
be installed on the client server. If the Remote Console and Virtual Media applets are accessed
using a version of Java Runtime Environment Standard Edition that is later than 1.4.2_13, the
applets can function incorrectly. If you are using another JVM version, you might experience the
following:
• If the Remote Console applet is opened with Java Runtime Environment Version 1.5.x or 1.6.x,
you might experience the following:
— The message Automation server cannot create object appears. If you click OK, the message
disappears and the applet functions normally.
— The TAB key does not function properly. The TAB key moves around the various portions
of the Remote Console applet window, instead of moving inside the applet itself.
• If the Virtual Media applet is opened with Java Runtime Environment Version 1.5.x or Version
1.6.x, you might experience the following:
— When you click the Create Disk Image button, another window appears. The window
might appear with the Create and Cancel buttons missing, or appear as only text. If the
window is closed and reopened, the buttons eventually appear correctly.
— When you select an image file in the applet, a file select window appears. After you
select a file, the window closes and returns to the regular applet window. However, the
image file area is not updated, and the applet appears unresponsive. To update the
original Virtual Media applet window and enable it to retain focus in the system, click a
separate window. The applet appears unresponsive until the Virtual Media applet window
is closed and reopened.
186 Troubleshooting iLO 2