Changing the console com port

[John Cagle]

If you're using SSH to access the Virtual Serial Port of iLO, you should be
able to set the Idle Connection Timeout to "Infinite" instead of 30
minutes.  (This setting is available in the Web administration pages of iLO
itself.)  However, I don't think that VSP connections will ever time out,
but I might be wrong.

If the "Infinite" option is not available, then you should consider updating
the iLO firmware.

Also you probably should explore the other iLO settings -- perhaps there are
some other things that you want to enable/disable.

I don't know about the utility software...

John

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Barry Friedman <friedman at www1.emax.ca>wrote:

> You wrote:
> > I'm not sure about that particular option on that particular server, but
> it
> > probably needs to have a health driver running in order to log it to the
> IML
> > (integrated management log) which is viewable with iLO.  If the server is
> > based on iLO-2, then it should be logged to the IML without having to run
> a
> > health driver.
>
> The DL380G4 box only has iLO standard and I presume that there is no
> health driver running.  Now that I have the virtual console working
> I am faced with the problem that the iLO seems to time out the connection
> after about 30 min so there is still a difficulty in logging the reboot
> event
> which seems to be happening once every ~ 1-5 days.
>
> Is there any chance that we'll be seeing the utility software (hpasmd,
> hpacucli, hpadu) compiled for freebsd 7 any time soon?
>
> > There is a different thermal shutdown feature of all ProLiants -- when
> the
> > server/cpu reaches a "temp deadly" setting, the box will immediately shut
> > down.  This feature has saved many ProLiant servers during computer room
> > cooling failures over weekends when no one was around...   Other servers
> > burned up during those events...
>
> Thanks again,
> --
> Barry Friedman
> Emax Computer Systems Inc., 480 Tweedsmuir Ave., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z
> 5N9
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>