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
• Firmware Maintenance CD-ROM – Download the component to create a bootable CD-ROM
that contains many firmware updates for ProLiant servers and options.
• Scripting with CPQLOCFG – Download CPQLOCFG component to get the network-based
scripting utility, CPQLOCFG. CPQLOCFG enables you to use RIBCL scripts that perform
firmware updates, iLO 2 configuration, and iLO 2 operations in bulk, securely over the network.
HP recommends that Linux users review the HP Lights-Out XML PERL scripting samples for Linux.
• Scripting with HPONCFG – Download the HPONCFG component to get the host-based scripting
utility, HPONCFG. This utility enables you to use RIBCL scripts that perform firmware updates,
and LOM processor configuration and operations in bulk, from Administrator or root account
access on supported host operating systems.
• HP Directories Support for Management Processors – Download the component to get the
directory support components. One of the components, the HPLOMIG, can be used to discover
iLO, iLO 2, RILOE, and RILOE II processors and update the firmware. You do not have to use
directory integration to take advantage of this functionality.
Diagnostic steps
Before attempting a flash recovery of the firmware, use the following diagnostic steps to verify that
flash recovery is needed:
1. Attempt to connect to iLO 2 through the Web browser. If you are unable to connect, then there
is a communication issue.
2. Attempt to ping iLO 2. If you are successful, then the network is working.
iLO 2 network flash recovery
The iLO 2 network flash recovery payload enables you to recover from a failed firmware upgrade.
The flash recovery payload uses FTP, which can only be used when the flash recovery payload is
active, to transfer the firmware image to iLO 2. The flash recovery payload must only be used if:
• Previous firmware upgrade attempts have failed
• You are unable to connect to the Web browser
If the iLO 2 firmware image is damaged, missing, or otherwise corrupted, then the iLO 2 flash
recovery process is used to re-flash iLO 2. The flash recovery process is for the sole purpose of
getting the system re-flashed. No other processes can run until the recovery process is complete.
Recovering from a bad iLO 2 flash image using network flash recovery
Perform the following steps to recover from a bad iLO 2 flash using network flash recovery:
1. Open an FTP session to the IP address or DNS name of iLO 2.
2. Log in to iLO 2 using the fixed username flash and the password recovery.
The username and password are case-sensitive.
3. At the FTP prompt, enter the put command, and the filename of the firmware image.
The following is an example of the entries used for the flash recovery process:
ftp 192.168.177.142
login: flash
password: recovery
put \iLO2_200.bin
202 Troubleshooting iLO 2