hpilo in FreeBSD

[Pavel Timofeev]

By the way you can work with iLO via network using
/usr/ports/sysutils/hploscripts.
This is simple xml files, that you need to send to iLO ipaddress.
In this manner I get iLO IML messages, for example. 


Dušátko Jan wrote:
> 
> As I wrote esterday, for i386 architecture and certain system is
> possible to use http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/
> However, right now I have problem. I can use few:
> - HP ProLiant DL360 G6/ 192GB RAM for application purposes
> - HP ProLiant DL320 G6/ 64GB RAM for IDS, firewalling and management.
> Because waste of support, I can use i386 architecture (!joke!)
> or amd64 architecture without hardware support. I mean, no automatic
> server recovery, no iLO, no array management, server health reporting.
> 
> Other platform have similar problems:
> The Fujitsu-Siemens using IPMI management (it come with bunch of
> support), but there are some "software RAID" based on ICH7. Especialy
> new system. Few system components listed in pciconf are without
> communication, because no support for them
> Similar situation I have for Intel nodes, probably best support I got
> right now for Dell. But I'm fan of HP (better old Compaq branch), due
> this it is sad for me.
> 
> I trying to solve specified issues by patching, scripts and so on, but
> this is not a solution. It is sad, but real.
> In case that someone is interested in development of drivers, please
> told me. In case that I'll have preproduction system, I'll provide
> access to develop drivers and so on and arrange time to reinstall
> it again.
> 
>> 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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