hpilo in FreeBSD

[Dušátko Jan]

HP ProLiant uses:
- the SmartArray (drivers/modules/something), most of them supported
- NIC, which is de-facto Broadcom or Intel
- iLO, which is not supported
- Server management, not supported

Right now in FreeBSD is waste of support:
- for array reconfiguration utility 
  (on the fly, I used it many times in Win/Novell world)
- server health monitoring
  (HP allow as many other vendors monitoring of server health)
- Remote console and media support
  (HP iLO)

But similar situation are for other vendors too. People who trying
to solve this issue are overloaded and they do as much as possible,
but most of their work is investigation due lack of documentation
and resources.

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:37:55AM +0400, Pavel Timofeev wrote:
> > > Red Hat 5.5 (and CentOS 5.5, respectively) contains a driver for
> iLO, which
> > is
> > > called hpilo.
> >
> > Yes, I`m sure.
> >
> > > And I just checked RedHat EL5 Update 5, there are no packages
> included
> > > which start with hp.
> >
> > Excuse me, please, I forgot to say the main thing: this is not
> package, this is
> > kernel module (I previously called it 'driver')!
> > Sorry for confusion!
> >
> > for example:
> > /sbin/modprobe hpilo
> 
> Ok, the kernel module is there:
> 
> itrepofrmt01 root mnt/Server # rpm -q -l -p kernel-2.6.18-
> 194.el5.i686.rpm | grep -i ilo
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/kernel/drivers/misc/hpilo.ko
> 
> This kernel is also provided by the hp-ilo rpm from HP. This rpm also
> provides
> a source code to rebuild the module. So it could be used to port it to
> FreeBSD.
> But the ilo module is not the only thing to manage a HP server. There
> are
> other programs and items, which make the whole management suite. But
> for the
> other stuff, not everything is provided with source.
>