hpilo in FreeBSD

[Pavel Timofeev]

Ok, I understand you.

but I return to the initial question:


> So it could be used to port it to FreeBSD.

Do anyone have plans to port it?



> 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.

Yes, I know. But I'm exactly interested in iLO.

2010/5/18 Ulf Zimmermann <ulf at alameda.net>

> 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.
>
> --
> Regards, Ulf.
>
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