Love to hate iLO ...

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:28:17PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade... (the firmware that is)
> >
> > Is this the normal ILO or ILO2?
> 
> Normal, but how do I tell for certain?
> 
> iLO Firmware Version:   1.82

That's the normal one.

> > Is the IP address of the ILO server a public address or a private
> > address? If a public, please firewall it away from the public
> > internet because that was you described happens when you fail your
> > authentication one too many times. On the normal ILO that is.
> 
> It is a public IP, as these are remote hosts ... so, once this happens, a total 
> power reset is required, I take it?

No, just give it a couple of minutes to recover. What happens is
that when the authentcation in SSH goes wrong, it will be unavailable
for a short time. Don't ask me why, don't ask me how. It happens,
see my email about this earlier this week: It shits me too.

Firewall that SSH port to allow only access from authorized sources,
that way you can prevent this from happening.

Edwin
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