hpilo in FreeBSD

[Pavel Timofeev]

I totally agree with you!
I am very surprised that this is not done until now, and nobody even thought
about it.


Dušátko Jan wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
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