Love to hate iLO ...

[Brad Miele]

Out of 8 dl3x machines that i have, your experience describes only one of 
them. I had one where the iLO hung as you described and even cold resets 
wouldn't bring it back. HP said that it was most likely the board, and 
wanted to replace it. But for whatever reason, I never got them in to do 
it. So I went on hope that this Achilles heel machine would stay up. 
Ultimately it crashed hard, and the saving grace was that for some 
reason, that final remote hands reset brought the iLO back to life and I 
was able to fsck through it. It has been up since, about 4 months.

Anyway. in general I am iLO yay! But maybe you should see if HP will swap 
out the board.

Brad
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Brad Miele
VP Technology
IPNstock.com
866 476 7862 x902
bmiele at ipnstock.com

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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> The reason I originally went with HP was *because* of iLO ... the ability to
> connect to the console to do work on the server *without* havign to get ahold
> of a tech was a huge selling point ...
>
> ... but, is it just me, or is iLO the most unreliable piece of software?
>
> I can ping the ilo port, but when I try to ssh in:
>
> ssh: connect to host hostname.hub.org port 22: Operation timed out
>
> when I try and access through the web, I get told 'Connection refused' ...
>
> If I get a tech to pull the plug out of the wall and replug it in after a few
> seconds, everything works again for awhile, and then dies off ... but, of
> course, that doesn't help me when I'm actually *having* a problem ...
>
> So, does anyone else have similar experiences?  Am I running a 'too old'
> versoin of iLO and this sort of stuff is fixed in more recent versions that I
> can upgrade to?  Searching HP itself, I'm drawing a blank for firmware upgrades
> (find agents for LInux though) ... so if it is a possibility of need for
> upgrade, does anyone have a URL for the latest and greatest?
>
> Thank you ...
>
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