HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

[Johan Ström]

On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Sean Winn wrote:

> For using HP blades and standard iLO (no licensed advance features),  
> it works perfectly well, installing both FreeBSD 5 and 6 on the  
> blades I've tried, using a remote install CD from the Java applet  
> (there's one for remote devices like disks, and one for remote  
> console); there's only text mode but that's plenty to install the OS  
> and enable it to the point of using SSH to manage it from there on  
> in. I'd hope the iLO hardware/software is relatively common to all  
> the HP range :)
>
> text mode access continues at all times - the iLO interface is just  
> a remote screen/keyboard onto it, even POST BIOS boot. The external  
> devices are USB mass storage ones, but I didn't have problems  
> booting off the CD and installing it for 6.2.


Well.. The blades seems to be an exception:

• iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition (unlicensed blade server):
o Remote Console and IRC

This is not listed under "iLO 2 Standard (unlicensed:)"... I guess  
that means I'm out of luck unless I want to bang up another $400  
(listing price).. Which I'd rather not :)

Anyone running those 360G5's using serial console on a normal licensed  
iLO?


>
>
> The iLO web interface nominally requires/is tested only on Windows/ 
> IE setup, but I do my work from a Mac running Safari, and have no  
> problems to date.
>
> On 13/03/2008, at 10:41 AM, Johan Ström wrote:
>
>> On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Joe Koberg wrote:
>>
>>> Johan Ström wrote:
>>>> But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf 
>>>>  seems to tell me that in basic mode I can only access BIOS (pre- 
>>>> OS) using the Remote Console feature, and that after POST I have  
>>>> to have the advanced licensed option?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't do the purchasing and we get all Advanced iLO, so I will  
>>> take your word for it.  The older generations supported text  
>>> console (i have a 360G2 that does so).   We use the HP Management  
>>> agents under Windows for all SNMP reporting so I can't comment on  
>>> the reporting method under other OS's.
>>>
>>
>> I see. Can anyone else maybe shed some light here?
>>
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