HP Ilo 4 User Guide
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ToviewiLOdiagnosticsinformation,navigatetotheInformation→Diagnosticspage. TheDiagnosticspagecontainsthefollowingsections: •iLOSelf-TestResults—ThissectiondisplaystheresultsofinternaliLOdiagnostics. Thestatusofeachself-testislistedintheStatuscolumn.Movethecursoroverthestatus iconstoviewatooltipdescription.Ifastatushasnotbeenreportedforatest,thetestis notlisted. ◦ ◦Theteststhatarerunaresystemdependent.Notalltestsarerunonallsystems.Viewthe listontheDiagnosticspagetoverifywhichtestsareperformedonyoursystem. ◦AtestmightincludeadditionalinformationintheNotescolumn.Thiscolumndisplaysthe versionsofothersystemprogrammablelogic,suchastheSystemBoardPALorthePower ManagementController. ◦ThefollowinginformationisdisplayedintheEmbeddedFlash/SD-CARDtestresults: –Firmwarerevision –SD-CARDsize –SD-CARDslot –SD-CARDwritecounter Thewritecountercountsdatain512-byteblocks.Ifthewritecounterisatzero,no writecountertextisdisplayedintheiLOwebinterface. Writecounterinformationisdisplayedonlywhenarecognized“GenuineHP” SD-CardisinstalledwitharetailversionofiLO. •ResetiLO—ThissectioncontainstheResetbutton,whichenablesyoutoreboottheiLO processor.UsingResetdoesnotmakeanyconfigurationchanges,butendsallactive connectionstoiLO.Ifafirmwarefileuploadisinprogress,itisterminated.Ifafirmwareflash isinprogress,youcannotresetiLOuntiltheprocessisfinished.YoumusthavetheConfigure iLOSettingsprivilegetousethisfeature. UsingiLOdiagnostics181
•Non-MaskableInterrupt(NMI)button—ThissectioncontainstheGenerateNMItoSystem button,whichenablesyoutostoptheoperatingsystemfordebugging.TheVirtualPowerand ResetprivilegeisrequiredtogenerateanNMI. CAUTION:GeneratinganNMIasadiagnosticanddebuggingtoolisusedprimarilywhen theoperatingsystemisnolongeravailable.NMIisnotusedduringnormaloperationofthe server.GeneratinganNMIdoesnotgracefullyshutdowntheoperatingsystem,butcauses theoperatingsystemtocrash,resultinginlostserviceanddata.UsetheGenerateNMIto Systembuttononlyinextremecasesinwhichtheoperatingsystemisnotfunctioningproperly andanexperiencedsupportorganizationhasrecommendedthatyouproceedwithanNMI. •RedundantROMSupport—YoucansafelyupgradeorconfiguretheserverROMwithredundant ROMsupport. ◦TheActiveROMtableshowsthecurrentversionandthereleasedateofthesystemROM ontheserver. ◦TheBackupROMtableshowsthereleasedateofthebackupROMandthereleasedate ofthebackupROMbootblock.ThebackupROMistypicallythepreviouslyinstalled version. ForHPProLiantGen8serversonly:ClicktheSwapROMbuttontoswaptheactiveROMand thebackupROM.Thechangewilltakeeffectafterthenextsystemreboot.Thisfeatureisnot supportedonHPProLiantGen9servers. ResettingiLOthroughthewebinterface IfiLOisslowtorespond,youmightneedtoperformareset. 1.NavigatetotheInformation→DiagnosticspageintheiLOwebinterface. 2.ClickReset. ClickingResetiLOdoesnotmakeanyconfigurationchanges,butitendsallactiveconnections toiLO.YoumusthavetheConfigureiLOSettingsprivilegetousethisfeature. Forotherresetmethods,see“Rebooting(Resetting)iLO”(page309). UsingLocationDiscoveryServices LocationDiscoveryServicesisacomponentofHPDiscoveryServices.LocationDiscoveryServices automaticallyreportsserverlocationstoHPSIMandInsightControl,eliminatingthismanualtask forserveradministrators.AdministratorscanusethelocationinformationandsystemdatawithHP AssetManagertoobtainmorepreciseandcompleteassetdata. LocationDiscoveryServicesisarackUlocationdiscoverysolutionforG3andlaterracks.Itenables HPiLO,BLOnboardAdministrator,andSLChassisfirmwaretoreportanddisplaytherackIDand theserverUpositionintherack.SupportedracksareprogrammedwithuniqueUvaluesin7U and/or8Umodules,andareinstalledwiththetagversionnumber,rackidentifier,partnumber, productname,rackheight,andUposition.LocationDiscoveryServicessupports14U,22U,36U, 42U,and47Uracks. TherackdevicereadstherackUlocationtageachtimeiLOreceivesACpoweroriLOisreset. TheUpositionvaluedenotestheUpositionreadbythedevice.Thecontactpositionoffsetisa fixedvalueforeachmodelthatindicatesthepositionofthecontactrelativetothebottomUposition ofthedevice.Itisnormally0,butcanbeapositivevalueifthecontactcannotbeplacedatthe bottomUpositionofthedevice.Thebottom-mostUpositionoccupiedbythedeviceiscalculated bysubtractingtheUoffsetfromtheUposition. ToviewLocationDiscoveryServicesinformation,navigatetotheInformation→LocationDiscovery Servicespage. 182UsingiLO
TheLocationDiscoveryServicespageliststhefollowinginformation: •PlatformType—Theservertype. •DiscoveryRackSupport—WhethertheracksupportsLocationDiscoveryServices. •DiscoveryDataStatus—Whethertherewasanerrorduringdiscovery. •RackIdentifier—Therackidentifier.Ifdataisnotavailable,thevalue0isdisplayed. •RackLocationDiscoveryProductPartNumber—Therackpartnumber.Ifdataisnotavailable, thevalue0isdisplayed. •RackLocationDiscoveryProductDescription—Therackproductname.Ifdataisnotavailable, thevalue0isdisplayed. •RackUHeight—Therackheight,inUrackunits.Possiblevaluesarebetween0and50.If dataisnotavailable,thevalue0isdisplayed. •ULocation—Thesideoftherackwherethedeviceisinstalled.PossiblevaluesareBack,Front (default),Left,andRight.Ifdataisnotavailable,thevalue0isdisplayed. •ServerUUID—Theuniversallyuniqueidentifieroftheserver. Additionalinformationislisted,dependingontheservertype. DLandMLserver-specificdata: •ServerUHeight—Theserverheight,inUrackunits.Possiblevaluesarebetween1.00and 50.00. •ServerRackUPosition—TherackUpositionthatalignswiththebaseoftheserver.Possible valuesarebetween1and50. BladeenclosuresandBLserver-specificdata: •BayNumber—Theserverbayintheenclosure. •EnclosureUUID—Theenclosureuniversallyuniqueidentifier. •EnclosureUHeight—Theenclosureheight,inUrackunits.Possiblevaluesarebetween1.00 and50.00. •EnclosureRackUPosition—TherackUpositionthatalignswiththebaseoftheenclosure. Possiblevaluesarebetween1and50. SLserver-specificdata: •BayNumber—Theserverbayintheenclosure. •SLChassisUUID—TheSLchassisuniversallyuniqueidentifier. UsingLocationDiscoveryServices183
•ChassisUHeight—Thechassisheight,inUrackunits.Possiblevaluesarebetween1.00and 50.00. •ChassisRackUPosition—TherackUpositionthatalignswiththebaseoftheSLchassis. Possiblevaluesarebetween1and50. UsingtheHPInsightManagementAgents TheHPInsightManagementAgentssupportabrowserinterfaceforaccesstorun-timemanagement datathroughtheHPSystemManagementHomepage.TheHPSystemManagementHomepageis asecureweb-basedinterfacethatconsolidatesandsimplifiesthemanagementofindividualservers andoperatingsystems.ByaggregatingdatafromHPInsightManagementAgentsandother managementtools,theHPSystemManagementHomepageprovidesanintuitiveinterfacetoreview in-depthhardwareconfigurationandstatusdata,performancemetrics,systemthresholds,and softwareversioncontrolinformation. TheagentscanautomaticallyprovidethelinktoiLO,oryoucanmanuallyenterthelinkonthe Administration→Managementpage.Formoreinformation,seehttp://www.hp.com/servers/ manage. ToopentheHPSystemManagementHomepage: 1.NavigatetotheInformation→InsightAgentpage. 2.ClicktheInsightAgentbuttontoopentheHPSystemManagementHomepage. UsingiLOFederation iLOFederationenablesyoutomanagemultipleserversfromonesystemrunningtheiLOweb interface. HPiLO4firmwareversion1.40andlatersupportsthefollowingfeatures: •Grouphealthstatus •GroupVirtualMedia •Grouppowercontrol •AutomaticGroupPowerCapping •Groupfirmwareupdate HPiLO4firmwareversion2.00andlatersupportsthefollowingfeatures: •Grouplicenseinstallation •Groupconfiguration 184UsingiLO
IMPORTANT:iLOsystemsinthesameiLOFederationgroupmustusethesameversionofthe iLO4firmware. AnyusercanviewinformationoniLOFederationpages,butsomefeaturesrequirealicense.For moreinformationaboutiLOlicensing,seethefollowingwebsite:http://www.hp.com/go/ilo/ licensing. ConfiguringiLOFederation YoucanusetheiLOwebinterfaceorRIBCLscriptstoconfigureiLOFederation. •ToconfigureiLOFederationwiththeiLOwebinterface,see“ConfiguringiLOFederation” (page52). •ToconfigureiLOFederationwithRIBCLscripts,seetheHPiLO4ScriptingandCommand LineGuide. UsingtheSelectedGrouplist WhenyouselectagroupfromtheSelectedGrouplistonaniLOFederationpage: •TheserversthatwillbeaffectedbyachangeontheGroupVirtualMedia,GroupPower, GroupFirmwareUpdate,GroupLicensing,andGroupConfigurationpagesarelistedinthe AffectedSystemstable. •TheinformationdisplayedoniLOFederationpagesappliestoalloftheserversintheselected group. •ThechangesyoumakeoniLOFederationpagesapplytoalloftheserversintheselected group. •Theselectedgroupissavedinacookieandremainspersistent,evenwhenyoulogoutof iLO. Afteryouselectagroup,youcanfiltertheserversinthelistinordertoviewserverinformationor performactionsonasubsetoftheserversinthegroup. FilteringtheSelectedGrouplist Whenyoufilterthelistofservers: •TheinformationdisplayedoniLOFederationpagesappliestoalloftheserversintheselected groupthatmeetthefiltercriteria. •ThechangesyoumakeoniLOFederationpagesapplytoalloftheserversintheselected groupthatmeetthefiltercriteria. •Thefiltersettingsaresavedinacookieandremainpersistent,evenwhenyoulogoutofiLO. Youcanusethefollowingcriteriatofiltertheserversinagroup: •Healthstatus—Clickahealthstatuslinktoselectserverswithaspecifichealthstatus. •Model—Clickaservermodelnumberlinktoselectserversmatchingtheselectedmodel. •Servername—Clickaservernametofilterbyanindividualserver. •FirmwareInformation—Clickafirmwareversionorflashstatustoselectserversmatchingthe selectedfirmwareversionorstatus. UsingiLOFederation185
•OptionROMMeasuring—ClickanOptionROMMeasuringvaluetoselectserversbasedon theirTPMstatus. IfyouhaveoneormoreserverswithaTPM,usethisfiltertoexcludeserverswithOptionROM Measuringenabled. CAUTION:IfyouattempttoperformasystemROMoroptionROMupdateonaserverwith OptionROMMeasuringenabled,iLOpromptsyoutocanceltheupdate,verifythatyouhave arecoverykey,andsuspendBitLockerbeforetheupdate.Failuretofollowtheseinstructions mightresultinlosingaccesstoyourdata. •Licenseusage—Ifanerrormessagerelatedtoalicenseisdisplayed,clickthelicensekeyto selectserversthatusethatlicensekey. •LicenseInformation—Clickalicensetypeorstatustoselectserversmatchingtheselected licensetypeorstatus. UsingtheiLOFederationmulti-systemview TheMulti-SystemViewpageprovidesasummaryoftheservermodels,serverhealth,andcritical anddegradedsystemsinaniLOFederationgroup. Viewingserverhealthandmodelinformation Toviewsummaryinformationforagroupofservers: 1.NavigatetotheiLOFederation→Multi-SystemViewpage. 2.SelectagroupfromtheSelectedGroupmenu. 186UsingiLO
3.Optional:Tofilterthelistofservers,clickahealthstatus,servermodel,orservernamelink. Thefollowinginformationisdisplayedfortheserversintheselectedgroupthatmeetthefilter criteria(iffiltersareused): •Health—Thenumberofserversineachlistedhealthstatus.Thepercentageofthetotal numberofserversineachlistedhealthstatusisalsodisplayed. Foralistofthepossiblehealthstatusvalues,see“Viewinghealthsummaryinformation” (page151). •Model—Thelistofservers,groupedbymodelnumber.Thepercentageofthetotalnumber ofserversforeachmodelnumberisalsodisplayed. •CriticalandDegradedSystems—Thelistofserversinthecriticalordegradedstate.For moreinformation,see“Viewingcriticalanddegradedservers”(page187). Viewingcriticalanddegradedservers Toviewdetailsabouttheserversinagroupthatareinthecriticalordegradedstate: 1.NavigatetotheiLOFederation→Multi-SystemViewpage. 2.SelectagroupfromtheSelectedGroupmenu. 3.Optional:Tofilterthelistofservers,clickahealthstatus,servermodel,orservernamelink. Thefollowinginformationisdisplayedforthecriticalanddegradedserversintheselected groupthatmeetthefiltercriteria(iffiltersareused): •ServerName—Theservernamedefinedbythehostoperatingsystem. •SystemHealth—Theserverhealthstatus. •ServerPower—Theserverpowerstatus(ONorOFF). •UIDIndicator—ThestateoftheserverUIDLED.TheUIDLEDhelpsyouidentifyandlocate aserver,especiallyinhigh-densityrackenvironments.ThepossiblestatesareUIDON, UIDOFF,andUIDBLINK. •SystemROM—TheinstalledHPProLiantSystemROM. •iLOHostname—ThefullyqualifiednetworknameassignedtotheiLOsubsystem.Click thelinkintheiLOHostnamecolumntoopentheiLOwebinterfacefortheserver. •IPAddress—ThenetworkIPaddressoftheiLOsubsystem.ClickthelinkintheIPAddress columntoopentheiLOwebinterfacefortheserver. 4.ClickNextorPrevioustoviewmoreserversinthelist. ViewingtheiLOFederationMulti-SystemMap TheMulti-SystemMappagedisplaysinformationaboutthepeersofthelocaliLOsystem.Thelocal iLOsystemidentifiesitspeersthroughmulticastdiscovery. WhendataisloadedonaniLOFederationpage,arequestfordataissentfromtheiLOsystem runningthewebinterfacetotheiLOsystem’speers,andfromthosepeerstootherpeersuntilall ofthedatafortheselectediLOFederationgroupisretrieved. Formoreinformationaboutmulticastdiscoveryandpeer-to-peercommunication,see“Configuring iLOFederation”(page52). ToviewtheMulti-SystemMap: UsingiLOFederation187
1.NavigatetotheiLOFederation→Multi-SystemMappage. 2.SelectagroupfromtheSelectedGroupmenu. ThefollowinginformationisdisplayedforeachiLOpeer: •#—Thepeernumber. •UUID—TheserverUUID. •LastSeen—Thetimestampofthelastcommunicationfromtheserver. •LastError—Adescriptionofthemostrecentcommunicationerrorbetweenthelistedpeer andthelocaliLOsystem. •URL—TheURLforstartingtheiLOwebinterfaceforthelistedpeer. •IP—ThepeerIPaddress. UsingtheiLOFederationGroupVirtualMediafeature TheGroupVirtualMediafeatureenablesyoutoconnectscriptedmediaforaccessbytheservers inaniLOFederationgroup. AlicenseisrequiredifyouwanttomakechangesontheGroupVirtualMediapage.Formore informationaboutiLOlicensing,seethefollowingwebsite:http://www.hp.com/go/ilo/licensing. WhenyouuseGroupVirtualMedia,notethefollowing: •YoucanconnectscriptedmediatotheiLOsystemsinaniLOFederationgroup.Scriptedmedia onlysupports1.44MBfloppydiskimages(.img)andCD/DVD-ROMimages(.iso).The imagemustbelocatedonawebserveronthesamenetworkastheiLOsystems. •IfyouwanttousetheGroupVirtualMediafeaturewithaniLOFederationgroup,ensurethat eachmemberofthegrouphasgrantedtheVirtualMediaprivilegetothegroup.Formore informationaboutprivileges,see“ConfiguringiLOFederation”(page52). •Onlyoneofeachtypeofmediacanbeconnectedtoagroupatthesametime. •Youcanview,connect,eject,orbootfromscriptedmedia.Whenyouusescriptedmedia, yousaveafloppydiskorCD/DVD-ROMdiskimagetoawebserverandconnecttothedisk imagebyusingaURL.iLOacceptsURLsinHTTPorHTTPSformat.iLOdoesnotsupportFTP. 188UsingiLO
NOTE:UsingafloppydiskimagetobootaremotehostserverissupportedonGen8servers only.ItisnotsupportedonGen9servers. •BeforeyouusetheiLOVirtualMediafeature,reviewtheoperatingsystemconsiderationsin “VirtualMediaoperatingsysteminformation”(page225). Connectingscriptedmediaforgroups 1.NavigatetotheiLOFederation→GroupVirtualMediapage. 2.SelectagroupfromtheSelectedGroupmenu. Allofthesystemsintheselectedgroupwillbeaffectedbythechangesyoumakeonthispage. 3.EntertheURLforthescriptedmediaintheScriptedMediaURLboxintheConnectVirtual Floppysection(.imgfiles)orConnectCD/DVD-ROMsection(.isofiles). 4.SelecttheBootonNextResetcheckboxiftheserversinthegroupshouldboottothisimage onlyonthenextserverreboot. Theimagewillbeejectedautomaticallyonthesecondserverrebootsothattheserversdo notboottothisimagetwice. Ifthischeckboxisnotselected,theimagewillremainconnecteduntilitisejectedmanually, andtheserverswillboottoitonallsubsequentserverresets,ifthesystembootoptionsare configuredaccordingly. NOTE:UsingafloppydiskimagetobootaremotehostserverissupportedonGen8servers only.ItisnotsupportedonGen9servers. 5.ClickInsertMedia. UsingiLOFederation189
Viewingandejectingscriptedmediaforgroups WhenscriptedmediaisconnectedtothesystemsinaniLOFederationgroup,thefollowingdetails arelistedintheVirtualFloppyStatussectionandVirtualCD/DVD-ROMStatussection: •MediaInserted—TheVirtualMediatypethatisconnected.ScriptedMediaisdisplayedwhen scriptedmediaisconnected. •Connected—IndicateswhetheraVirtualMediadeviceisconnected. •ImageURL—TheURLthatpointstotheconnectedscriptedmedia. NOTE:TheVirtualFloppyStatusandVirtualCD/DVD-ROMStatussectionsaredisplayedonly whenmediaisconnected. Toejectscriptedmediadevices: 1.NavigatetotheiLOFederation→GroupVirtualMediapage. 2.SelectagroupfromtheSelectedGroupmenu. Allofthesystemsintheselectedgroupwillbeaffectedbythechangesyoumakeonthispage. 3.ClicktheEjectMediabuttonintheVirtualFloppyStatussectionorVirtualCD/DVD-ROMStatus section. ViewingserversaffectedbyaGroupVirtualMediaaction TheAffectedSystemssectionprovidesthefollowingdetailsabouttheserversthatwillbeaffected bychangesyoumakeontheGroupVirtualMediapage: •ServerName—Theservernamedefinedbythehostoperatingsystem. •ServerPower—Theserverpowerstate(ONorOFF). •UIDIndicator—ThestateoftheUIDLED.TheUIDLEDhelpsyouidentifyandlocateaserver, especiallyinhigh-densityrackenvironments.ThepossiblestatesareUIDON,UIDOFF,and UIDBLINK. •iLOHostname—ThefullyqualifiednetworknameassignedtotheiLOsubsystem.Clickthelink intheiLOHostnamecolumntoopentheiLOwebinterfacefortheserver. •IPAddress—ThenetworkIPaddressoftheiLOsubsystem.ClickthelinkintheIPAddress columntoopentheiLOwebinterfacefortheserver. UsingtheiLOFederationGroupPowerfeature TheGroupPowerfeatureenablesyoutomanagethepowerofmultipleserversfromasystem runningtheiLOwebinterface.Usethisfeaturetodothefollowing: •Poweroff,reset,orpower-cycleagroupofserversthatareintheONorResetstate.Formore information,see“Changingthepowerstateforagroupofservers”(page191). •PoweronagroupofserversthatareintheOFFstate.Formoreinformation,see“Changing thepowerstateforagroupofservers”(page191). •ViewthelistofserversthatwillbeaffectedwhenyouclickabuttonintheVirtualPowerButton sectionoftheGroupPowerpage.Formoreinformation,see“Viewingserversaffectedbythe VirtualPowerButton”(page192). AlicenseisrequiredifyouwanttomakechangesontheGroupPowerpage.Formoreinformation aboutiLOlicensing,seethefollowingwebsite:http://www.hp.com/go/ilo/licensing. IfyouwanttousetheGroupPowerfeaturewithaniLOFederationgroup,ensurethateachmember ofthegrouphasgrantedtheVirtualPowerandResetprivilegetothegroup.Formoreinformation aboutprivileges,see“ConfiguringiLOFederation”(page52). 190UsingiLO