iLO ... not very robust ... ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, jmc wrote:

> Marc,
>
> On 4/14/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is it just me, or is iLO not a particulary robust interface?
>
>
> Well, in my experience, it's been quite robust, but we all know how
> difficult it is to create perfect software.  If your web interface keeps
> crashing, I would appreciate it if you could give me the details of your
> configuration and we could try to reproduce it here.

Unfortunately, so far, the only issue with iLO that has forced me to 
physically power the machine down, I don't know what I did, or how to 
recreate it ...

*somehow* I got the ssh interface to a state where when you logged in, the 
iLO prompt would continuously scroll up the screen, and not let you type 
in anything ... I couldn't find a means to 'reset iLO' from within the web 
interface, which still did work, and, of course, couldn't do the reset 
from the ssh interface ...

>> Finally found an iLO manual on my Documentation CD ... all 197 pages of it
>> ... just printed it off (prefer reading paper over PDF), and *wow* ...
>> this thing does alot ... but, so far, I haven't found a way to 'reset the
>> web interface' ... does anyone know how to do so?
>
>
> Marc,  The SMASH interface provides a method of resetting all of iLO, which
> I have mentioned before, but there is no way to reset the web interface
> independently.

Actually, finally found the docs for iLO on my HP CDs, printed it out and 
have been *slowly* trying to get through all 197 pages of it *shiver* ... 
resetting iLO did fix the web interface issue ...

Stupid question ... is there a reason against resetting iLO?  Are there 
some sort of stats that iLO maintains that gets lost on a reset?



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