From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 10 01:03:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642BA16A403; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:03:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohoyer@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org) Received: from sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org (h937476.serverkompetenz.net [81.169.156.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D2943D49; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:03:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohoyer@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org) Received: from sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sylvana (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k89DP0DJ004624; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:25:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost) by sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) with ESMTP id k89DOvfX004618; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:24:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:24:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060908130444.V64655@ganymede.hub.org> Message-ID: <20060909151636.A4598@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org> References: <45008628.2000007@juniper.net> <4500F627.1040104@thebeastie.org> <20060908130444.V64655@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:03:21 -0000 On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Michael Vince wrote: > >> I got a HP because I needed a new server fast and Dell claimed 4 weeks, I >> will give you my run down on whats happened with me. > > We're running 2xDL360 G4p's here, and so far, have been extremely happy with > them ... third is about to be installed ... > > >> So far I am annoyed about many things, firstly at has no built in writeback >> battery on the 256mg SAS controller which means no write cache which is >> something you have to pay extra for from HP. >> In the Dells its built in, with 256mg battery backed writecache for >> guaranteed filesystem consistency on sudden power loss, write cache is >> important and is otherwise a waste of a good machine if you need top write >> performance, otherwise may as well get really low end stuff that has really >> simple controller cards like supermicro etc. I can only speak for earlier revisions of the Proliants, and the write-back-cache for most of the controllers is sold separately. (Yes, especially for the onboard-Controllers like the Smartarray 5i) In some cases they come preconfigured when you buy them. >> The other problem is the remote serial support via tip for reaching into >> the bios is quite stuffed, all the text garbles into a single line and is >> just to hard to read, I hacked the minicom port to use the USB to 9pin >> serial device to see if I could make it more like how people in linux would >> use it and it made little difference. >> It looks like HP were trying to have better remote serial bios support by >> going really basic command line style for remote BIOS control but its no >> good. >> The Dell bios is all nice and menu'ed and works flawlessly over remote >> serial, no garbledness overwriting other text. The HP boxes offer 2 ways of serial: traditional BIOS redirection at 9600 bps through 9pin COM1, which you can set up in BIOS, I recall that there are some options to it, like terminal type, ANSI or VT100. Could that be an issue in your environment? (I admit that the Proliants in our datacenter are dedicated to Windows, so I had only limited time to check with FreeBSD on them) > Here, what is 'remote serial'? Is that the same as REMCONS through iLO over > SSH? Again, will have to double check, as my other two machines are > production right now, but my experience with iLO/REMCONS has been most > pleasant, but, I also hook up two ethernet cables, I don't do the 'piggy > backing' that I know is possible over one ... Second possibility ist the console redirection through the iLO board with a web browser. Shall work with recent browsers. >> There is no IPMI with HP even though it appears to be standard on most >> other x86 servers. On the new Dell they now have IPMI v2, and I can use a >> native FreeBSD IPMI client port for remote control. On HP it appears I have >> to pay for some kind of LO software, this might be the reason for useless >> uncontrollable remote 9pin serial for BIOS access. Hmm, the standard iLO features on HP DL 360G2 and 380 G3 should be sufficient for Unix environments- the advanced pack gives you graphical "console" redirection thats needed for Windows out-of-band management including mouse support and some stuff i already forgot. I monitor these few windows servers via SNMP through the iLO, works without problems, and there is the possibility to login via ssh to iLO for essential things like powercycle. For anything else HP uses SNMP, and I recall some work to script the iLO via XML templates, that can be downloaded from HP. HTH Olaf From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 13:28:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D41E16A412 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:28:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from shanty.ipnstock.com (static-71-241-222-63.port.east.verizon.net [71.241.222.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C9443D46 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:28:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from shanty.ipnstock.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shanty.ipnstock.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8CDRxSu011951 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:27:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from localhost (brad@localhost) by shanty.ipnstock.com (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id k8CDRqWE011948 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:27:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shanty.ipnstock.com: brad owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:27:46 -0400 (EDT) From: brad miele X-X-Sender: brad@shanty.ipnstock.com To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:28:03 -0000 Hi, I apologize if this has been gone over before. when i ssh to my machines and run remcons, i get a situation where every command and response ends up on the same line. what is the fix for this? Brad --------------------- Brad Miele VP Technology IPNStock.com 866 476 7862 x902 bmiele@ipnstock.com From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 13:40:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA6416A412 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:40:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB15743D46 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:40:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i21so494682wra for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:40:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=FCxiW+iwv0MF/cvXRikLvshuPc/JOfbcl8S86x70nxqZkVq54DmgS1LhAlp/x90ooDueVv3ela1pgw8xZu3SRIoOYmVc5nUWoEAGjzX3jCtasUsC74z4bJlDKcnj4D+tzb+5nVeSiWrq0avYuRkOREBNoUQe5jT/dwldglWrCdc= Received: by 10.90.84.17 with SMTP id h17mr2063030agb; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:40:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.100.20 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:40:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:40:56 -0500 From: jmc To: "brad miele" In-Reply-To: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:40:58 -0000 For iLO remcons sessions, your terminal emulator (e.g. PuTTY) should have the following settings: Backspace - Generates Control-H Function Keys - VT100+ Window Size - 25 ROWS by 80 columns (This is key) Character Set Translation - CP437 Please let me know if this helps. By the way, if your system has iLO-2 (beginning in 2006) the REMCONS command no longer works -- you should transition to using VSP (Virtual Serial Port) instead. The iLO-2 BMC now uses a "DVI" like connection to the video controller which means it no longer can "screen-scrape" the text console. I recommend setting the iLO VSP to COM1 to make it easier to use for the FreeBSD console. (This is the default on BladeSystem blades since they don't have a real COM1 port.) John On 9/12/06, brad miele wrote: > > Hi, > > I apologize if this has been gone over before. when i ssh to my machines > and run remcons, i get a situation where every command and response ends > up on the same line. > > what is the fix for this? > > Brad > --------------------- > Brad Miele > VP Technology > IPNStock.com > 866 476 7862 x902 > bmiele@ipnstock.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 13:49:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CFB16A403 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:49:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from shanty.ipnstock.com (static-71-241-222-63.port.east.verizon.net [71.241.222.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EAD43D82 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:49:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from shanty.ipnstock.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shanty.ipnstock.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8CDngwj012043; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:49:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from localhost (brad@localhost) by shanty.ipnstock.com (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id k8CDnfV9012040; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:49:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shanty.ipnstock.com: brad owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:49:41 -0400 (EDT) From: brad miele X-X-Sender: brad@shanty.ipnstock.com To: jmc In-Reply-To: <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060912094930.B2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:49:50 -0000 worked like a charm, thanks! Brad --------------------- Brad Miele VP Technology IPNStock.com 866 476 7862 x902 bmiele@ipnstock.com On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote: > For iLO remcons sessions, your terminal emulator (e.g. PuTTY) should have > the following settings: > > Backspace - Generates Control-H > Function Keys - VT100+ > Window Size - 25 ROWS by 80 columns (This is key) > Character Set Translation - CP437 > > Please let me know if this helps. By the way, if your system has iLO-2 > (beginning in 2006) the REMCONS command no longer works -- you should > transition to using VSP (Virtual Serial Port) instead. The iLO-2 BMC now > uses a "DVI" like connection to the video controller which means it no > longer can "screen-scrape" the text console. I recommend setting the iLO > VSP to COM1 to make it easier to use for the FreeBSD console. (This is the > default on BladeSystem blades since they don't have a real COM1 port.) > > John > > On 9/12/06, brad miele wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I apologize if this has been gone over before. when i ssh to my machines >> and run remcons, i get a situation where every command and response ends >> up on the same line. >> >> what is the fix for this? >> >> Brad >> --------------------- >> Brad Miele >> VP Technology >> IPNStock.com >> 866 476 7862 x902 >> bmiele@ipnstock.com >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " >> > From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 15:25:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D0A16A522 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:25:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B94F43D45 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:25:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64375864F8; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:25:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58506-03; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:24:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95F05864EA; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:24:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 055AF47F12; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:24:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044C0343F5; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:24:31 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:24:30 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: jmc In-Reply-To: <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:25:55 -0000 On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote: > For iLO remcons sessions, your terminal emulator (e.g. PuTTY) should have > the following settings: > > Backspace - Generates Control-H > Function Keys - VT100+ > Window Size - 25 ROWS by 80 columns (This is key) > Character Set Translation - CP437 > > Please let me know if this helps. By the way, if your system has iLO-2 > (beginning in 2006) the REMCONS command no longer works -- you should > transition to using VSP (Virtual Serial Port) instead. The iLO-2 BMC now > uses a "DVI" like connection to the video controller which means it no > longer can "screen-scrape" the text console. I recommend setting the iLO > VSP to COM1 to make it easier to use for the FreeBSD console. (This is the > default on BladeSystem blades since they don't have a real COM1 port.) 'k, not 100% certain what this means ... will the remote console work through the web interface still? By VSP, I assume that doesn't mean I need to use a terminal server, are there any instructions on how to access this remotely? Thx ... > > John > > On 9/12/06, brad miele wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I apologize if this has been gone over before. when i ssh to my machines >> and run remcons, i get a situation where every command and response ends >> up on the same line. >> >> what is the fix for this? >> >> Brad >> --------------------- >> Brad Miele >> VP Technology >> IPNStock.com >> 866 476 7862 x902 >> bmiele@ipnstock.com >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 16:38:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 390C716A403 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:38:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gallasch@free.de) Received: from smtp.free.de (smtp.free.de [193.28.225.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7575943D49 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:38:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gallasch@free.de) Received: (qmail 99143 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2006 16:38:34 -0000 Received: from orwell.free.de (HELO [193.28.225.210]) (gallasch@free.de@[193.28.225.210]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp.free.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Sep 2006 16:38:34 -0000 Message-ID: <4506E289.3050309@free.de> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:38:33 +0200 From: Kai Gallasch User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Smart Array 6i and FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:38:37 -0000 Hi List. I am newbie when it comes to HP Proliant servers and just recently got one DL385 Dual(DC) Opteron in my hands, which will replace a dual Xeon 2.4 Server.. The DL385 hardware makes a very good impression to me. Looks very high quality. Every component just snaps into place and you don't need any tools to server parts, nice! Maybe you can help me with some questions? userland software for the smart array 6i: I heard that there is a userland binary for the smart array 6i available from HP which is said to work with FreeBSD (Linux emulation). Where do I find this Linux package? (RPM?) I searched HP but cannot find the stuff. What Linux port is needed for the raidcontroller software, emulators/linux_base or emulators/linux_base-8 ? environmental monitoring: It seems that the mbmon port does not work with the DL385 hardware. How can I monitor the server/cpu temperature of the server in a 100% FreeBSD environment? Is there a way to make snmp queries to the ilo Interface and use an snmp oid that gives back temperature an fanhealth values? "raid5-angst" - opinions: Although not directly FreeBSD related, maybe you can give some advice on the following.. I have some fellow admins who suffer from what I call "raid5-angst" :-) When I installed the server recently and decided to go with raid5 (previously we only had raid 0+1) they at once come up with stories of "this guy" whose raid5 crashed - even with a hotspare drive - because during the rebuild that took "very long" another physical drive died.. now how probable is that?! what's your opinion on that? I think they got some point when they claim "when you bring your raid in production you buy several hard drives that almost always have similar serial nombers. So when one drive fails you, chances are high that a very similar disk will break down also.." Well, the smart array 6i doesn't offer Raid 6 / ADG - this would be safer, but I think a hot spare physical drive must be sufficient. (BTW: Anyone know if a hot spare drive is spinning, while it's waiting for another drive to fail? - just nosy..) Any help appreciated, Kai. -- "That's a huge mistake, and anybody that does it that way (FreeBSD) is totally incompetent" und "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots" Linus Torvalds - "Inventor" of operating system Linux From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 17:19:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F11516A412 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:19:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cs@schug.net) Received: from schug.net (s0.schug.net [194.97.148.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08AD043D46 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:19:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cs@schug.net) Received: by schug.net (Postfix, from userid 10000) id 67EB5C5795; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:19:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:19:26 +0200 From: Christoph Schug To: Kai Gallasch Message-ID: <20060912171926.GB574@voodoo.schug.net> References: <4506E289.3050309@free.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4506E289.3050309@free.de> Organization: SpaceNet AG User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 OpenPKG/2.5 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smart Array 6i and FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:19:28 -0000 On Tue, Sep 12, 2006, Kai Gallasch wrote: > userland software for the smart array 6i: > > I heard that there is a userland binary for the smart array 6i available > from HP which is said to work with FreeBSD (Linux emulation). > Where do I find this Linux package? (RPM?) I searched HP but cannot find > the stuff. I guess you're talking about the tools at [1]. AFAIK those tools do not work on recent FreeBSD releases but I may be wrong. OTOH any important status change in the RAID set is reported by the ciss(4) driver. Monitoring /var/log/messages might to the job. I posted this some weeks ago to the list [2], so you can get some impression if this is good enough for your requirements. > environmental monitoring: > > It seems that the mbmon port does not work with the DL385 hardware. How > can I monitor the server/cpu temperature of the server in a 100% FreeBSD > environment? Is there a way to make snmp queries to the ilo Interface > and use an snmp oid that gives back temperature an fanhealth values? AFAIK you can't. It would be very nice to have hardware monitoring via iLO. This can be achieved under so called supported platforms, aka Linux or Windows, where you have to run HP agent software which does hardware monitoring of the underlying hardware. IMHO a rather weired approach, seems like HP has solved the chicken-and-egg problem ;) IIRC the results of the agents are being written in some kind of message buffer which can be polled by the iLO. Unfortunatelly the iLO doesn't have any OS independent logic to do all the stuff on its own. I address this as feature request several times at HP but it seems that one single customer is not important enough. > "raid5-angst" - opinions: I guess this depends on your application. For database applications RAID5 might result in poor write performance. In such scenaries I prefer 3 RAID1 sets where I'm distributing my table spaces. If you need just max file capacity with redunandy there are not many alternatives to a RAID5 set. Speaking for HP's SCSI drives I've never seen two disks failing at the very same time in the past 5 years. After all they are quite reliable. Nevertheless, this is no guarantee. But keep in mind, of both sub-mirrors of a RAID 1/0+1 fail a the same time, the result is the same. [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/ [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-July/003602.html -cs From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 21:26:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060BB16A417 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:26:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266A143DBE for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:25:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i21so639282wra for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:25:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=G3EEonbk3HwG9NPVQHNg5+tNPgirH1vao3makLvweSdentQFifw8+70P4ayhKlCyQCdPTOlaBv9RS40hFnPYa1vZPVGDMelyqLpxZoFmBy1ny24WzgWEIwFIkWwl7bKh0zNq9VArsJ+kwinRnqoakS1XqVTppEIUq3hu1Ssl3Ys= Received: by 10.90.54.4 with SMTP id c4mr2471318aga; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.100.11 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:25:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:25:01 -0500 From: jmc To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:26:42 -0000 On 9/12/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote: > > > For iLO remcons sessions, your terminal emulator (e.g. PuTTY) should > have > > the following settings: > > > > Backspace - Generates Control-H > > Function Keys - VT100+ > > Window Size - 25 ROWS by 80 columns (This is key) > > Character Set Translation - CP437 > > > > Please let me know if this helps. By the way, if your system has iLO-2 > > (beginning in 2006) the REMCONS command no longer works -- you should > > transition to using VSP (Virtual Serial Port) instead. The iLO-2 BMC > now > > uses a "DVI" like connection to the video controller which means it no > > longer can "screen-scrape" the text console. I recommend setting the > iLO > > VSP to COM1 to make it easier to use for the FreeBSD console. (This is > the > > default on BladeSystem blades since they don't have a real COM1 port.) > > 'k, not 100% certain what this means ... will the remote console work > through the web interface still? By VSP, I assume that doesn't mean I > need to use a terminal server, are there any instructions on how to access > this remotely? > > Thx ... Hi Marc, iLO 2 still has the standard remote console web interface (Java applet) and it is even faster and easier when you use Internet Explorer (some type of Active/X thing I think). The remote serial console can be accessed using a web browser, Telnet, or SSH. (Telnet is disabled by default since it is not secure, but you can enable it in the web interface.) A terminal server is not required. Here is a web page that shows the differences between the various iLO models (see the bottom of the page): http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ilo2/index.html One really cool feature is "Shared network port". This means that the iLO Ethernet traffic can run across the NIC1 link, so that it doesn't require an additional Ethernet port for each server. You can configure an iLO VLAN tag so that the iLO management traffic is kept separate by the ethernet switch. Here's a link to the manuals for iLO: http://tinyurl.com/gcbwx -- John From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 21:33:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54E816A403 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:33:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EBE143D45 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:33:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i21so640384wra for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:33:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=USEhxHMuysKTMjdyIk/KadGbRdI4DgjiOQMv0nhfHHRW+FiUHesz8KN7BI7UbPc610kN8xVKzN+uV5Y/U5ZM9rtKJOqjdccxZmYsZr1z8lAlM0RL1r37Qa6IxcE/EIZCkAWcwRVbARICCHo30R7KZrxYDLHZT+GHbgGKIgGiXuE= Received: by 10.90.118.10 with SMTP id q10mr2472976agc; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.100.11 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6863f0c90609121433i78c0a18bp6daab2d40c40bca2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:33:32 -0500 From: jmc To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:33:34 -0000 On 9/12/06, jmc wrote: > > On 9/12/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote: > > > > > For iLO remcons sessions, your terminal emulator (e.g. PuTTY) should > > have > > > the following settings: > > > > > > Backspace - Generates Control-H > > > Function Keys - VT100+ > > > Window Size - 25 ROWS by 80 columns (This is key) > > > Character Set Translation - CP437 > > > > > > Please let me know if this helps. By the way, if your system has > > iLO-2 > > > (beginning in 2006) the REMCONS command no longer works -- you should > > > transition to using VSP (Virtual Serial Port) instead. The iLO-2 BMC > > now > > > uses a "DVI" like connection to the video controller which means it no > > > longer can "screen-scrape" the text console. I recommend setting the > > iLO > > > VSP to COM1 to make it easier to use for the FreeBSD console. (This > > is the > > > default on BladeSystem blades since they don't have a real COM1 port.) > > > > 'k, not 100% certain what this means ... will the remote console work > > through the web interface still? By VSP, I assume that doesn't mean I > > need to use a terminal server, are there any instructions on how to > > access > > this remotely? > > > > Thx ... > > > Hi Marc, > > iLO 2 still has the standard remote console web interface (Java applet) > and it is even faster and easier when you use Internet Explorer (some type > of Active/X thing I think). > > The remote serial console can be accessed using a web browser, Telnet, or > SSH. (Telnet is disabled by default since it is not secure, but you can > enable it in the web interface.) A terminal server is not required. > > Here is a web page that shows the differences between the various iLO > models (see the bottom of the page): > http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ilo2/index.html > > One really cool feature is "Shared network port". This means that the iLO > Ethernet traffic can run across the NIC1 link, so that it doesn't require an > additional Ethernet port for each server. You can configure an iLO VLAN tag > so that the iLO management traffic is kept separate by the ethernet switch. > > Here's a link to the manuals for iLO: > > http://tinyurl.com/gcbwx > > -- John > Sorry, I forgot to mention that the Remote Console feature in the *web browser* with iLO-2 only provides access to POST (the BIOS boot screens). If you want to use the graphical remote console after the OS is loaded, you will need to upgrade to iLO 2 Advanced -- which gives you a key to enable the graphical remote console. John From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 21:39:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9825616A415 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:39:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258C543D53 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:39:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5703586505; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:39:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19877-03; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCFB5864EB; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:38:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B01F65C47F; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:38:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96C133DF1; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:38:01 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:38:01 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: jmc In-Reply-To: <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060912183211.K36880@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:39:17 -0000 On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote: > One really cool feature is "Shared network port". This means that the > iLO Ethernet traffic can run across the NIC1 link, so that it doesn't > require an additional Ethernet port for each server. You can configure > an iLO VLAN tag so that the iLO management traffic is kept separate by > the ethernet switch. * Embedded system health provides access to basic hardware status independent of the operating system this one is very nice to see ... * Shared Network Port now supports full access to iLO 2 via the browser and scripting interfaces I thought that iLO-1 supported this already, but someone recently reported that as soon as the operating starts up, it was locking him out of the SNP? Do you know if iLO-2 fixes that? Or are we talking about two different things here? * The iLO 2 browser user interface is updated to provide easier to use web pages and consistency with other ProLiant Essentials products ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 21:41:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABBC16A40F for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F0B43D46 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:41:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C0E58650A; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:41:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21582-03; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:40:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C555864EB; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:40:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1CB2B5CBB2; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:40:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCD85CBA0; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:40:33 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:40:33 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: jmc In-Reply-To: <6863f0c90609121433i78c0a18bp6daab2d40c40bca2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060912183852.Y36880@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> <6863f0c90609121433i78c0a18bp6daab2d40c40bca2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:41:47 -0000 On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote: >> Hi Marc, >> >> iLO 2 still has the standard remote console web interface (Java applet) >> and it is even faster and easier when you use Internet Explorer (some >> type of Active/X thing I think). >> >> The remote serial console can be accessed using a web browser, Telnet, >> or SSH. (Telnet is disabled by default since it is not secure, but you >> can enable it in the web interface.) A terminal server is not >> required. >> >> Here is a web page that shows the differences between the various iLO >> models (see the bottom of the page): >> http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ilo2/index.html >> >> One really cool feature is "Shared network port". This means that the >> iLO Ethernet traffic can run across the NIC1 link, so that it doesn't >> require an additional Ethernet port for each server. You can configure >> an iLO VLAN tag so that the iLO management traffic is kept separate by >> the ethernet switch. >> >> Here's a link to the manuals for iLO: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/gcbwx >> >> -- John >> > > Sorry, I forgot to mention that the Remote Console feature in the *web > browser* with iLO-2 only provides access to POST (the BIOS boot > screens). If you want to use the graphical remote console after the OS > is loaded, you will need to upgrade to iLO 2 Advanced -- which gives you > a key to enable the graphical remote console. 'k, then what is "Virtual KVM text mode"? That *sounds* like the same as the REMCONS I've been using so far ... no? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 22:54:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC0616A47B for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:54:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E83443D58 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:54:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2185564wxd for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:54:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=paVW9eXB7eJk7C/K/bAtV8FHlm74cGYCQ64gjwmtFhD6bXVKGn9ETPRyeJeNNbt0l/HsGsSiAtMkA5SlCg1WYus1gafiH5172brmPVGx9KX9Qj3dAYDQyQ1kQqjqtvBBFb/oNjzuiKlcmzEZW/HwN3R/5wSybdR90Monh+ZmuKU= Received: by 10.90.80.8 with SMTP id d8mr2480749agb; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.100.11 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6863f0c90609121554l41c680dake9d392733d330f9c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:54:50 -0500 From: jmc To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060912183211.K36880@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> <20060912183211.K36880@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:54:53 -0000 On 9/12/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote: > > > One really cool feature is "Shared network port". This means that the > > iLO Ethernet traffic can run across the NIC1 link, so that it doesn't > > require an additional Ethernet port for each server. You can configure > > an iLO VLAN tag so that the iLO management traffic is kept separate by > > the ethernet switch. > > this one is very nice to see ... > > * Shared Network Port now supports full access to iLO 2 via the > browser and scripting interfaces > > I thought that iLO-1 supported this already, but someone recently reported > that as soon as the operating starts up, it was locking him out of the > SNP? Do you know if iLO-2 fixes that? Or are we talking about two > different things here? iLO-1 does support Shared Network Port on some platforms, but since it is a "low-speed" interface, you cannot run the web interface through it -- just the Telnet/SSH interface. Also, the patches to the broadcom nic driver were just submitted (2 days ago?) that allow SNP to work properly with FreeBSD. -- John From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 22:57:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3610716A407 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:57:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9143C43D45 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:57:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2186226wxd for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:57:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=U4f4ue9CCPF39aI2t8BakoJfZmpdb39usDjpdZzjeqZgTfBERfHvbnZNT9MxFYa/+avjl2Vw/t2bX0IizqvdNY3hrIlRAq+9yXNRt8KHBNGBtnJkYCEwIATFB1yBLHVTRBMy23K/b0qNRR1PCCRmU+HPYB/qDT8m6t2QXMiojTs= Received: by 10.90.118.12 with SMTP id q12mr2482695agc; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.100.11 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6863f0c90609121557y57bda068y4e5442608e3208f7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:57:31 -0500 From: jmc To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060912183852.Y36880@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> <6863f0c90609121433i78c0a18bp6daab2d40c40bca2@mail.gmail.com> <20060912183852.Y36880@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:57:33 -0000 On 9/12/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot to mention that the Remote Console feature in the *web > > browser* with iLO-2 only provides access to POST (the BIOS boot > > screens). If you want to use the graphical remote console after the OS > > is loaded, you will need to upgrade to iLO 2 Advanced -- which gives you > > a key to enable the graphical remote console. > > 'k, then what is "Virtual KVM text mode"? That *sounds* like the same as > the REMCONS I've been using so far ... no? "Virtual KVM text mode" is referring to using the Web interface to access the Graphical Console -- as I said earlier iLO is using a DVI type connection to the video controller, so it cannot tell if the system is in text or graphics mode. With iLO-2 this is not available in the Telnet/SSH interface (which is textual only) because iLO-2 cannot "screen-scrape" the text off of the graphical screen. -- John From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 13 00:00:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4F516A40F for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E52743D45 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E1C586511; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:00:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12869-02; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD245864EB; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:59:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6DD965CDE7; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:59:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6941C36A59; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:59:36 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:59:36 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: jmc In-Reply-To: <6863f0c90609121557y57bda068y4e5442608e3208f7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060912205302.E36880@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> <6863f0c90609121433i78c0a18bp6daab2d40c40bca2@mail.gmail.com> <20060912183852.Y36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121557y57bda068y4e5442608e3208f7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:51 -0000 On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote: > On 9/12/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> > Sorry, I forgot to mention that the Remote Console feature in the *web >> > browser* with iLO-2 only provides access to POST (the BIOS boot >> > screens). If you want to use the graphical remote console after the OS >> > is loaded, you will need to upgrade to iLO 2 Advanced -- which gives you >> > a key to enable the graphical remote console. >> >> 'k, then what is "Virtual KVM text mode"? That *sounds* like the same as >> the REMCONS I've been using so far ... no? > > > "Virtual KVM text mode" is referring to using the Web interface to > access the Graphical Console -- as I said earlier iLO is using a DVI > type connection to the video controller, so it cannot tell if the system > is in text or graphics mode. With iLO-2 this is not available in the > Telnet/SSH interface (which is textual only) because iLO-2 cannot > "screen-scrape" the text off of the graphical screen. Okay, excuse me for being dense here, but I just want to make sure that I'm not going to regret upgrading to iLO-2 ... Accessing iLO-2 through the web browser, and starting up the Remote Console within the web browser (ie. getting the Java one) will still give me all the features (BIOS and Operating System console) that I'm getting out of iLO-1 right now ... its only if I want/need to go in through SSH will I no longer be able to do this ... Is that correct? If so, is there an upgrade I can put onto my new server to get iLO-2? Or will that only be available on new servers? The 'environment stuff' really has me intrigued, and I haven't put anything critical onto that server yet ... As is expected, going to: http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/lights-out/us/family/model/6220.html I'm finding all the Linux/Windows/Netware stuff ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 13 01:31:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280AD16A40F for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:31:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B4143D45 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:31:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2224404wxd for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:31:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=AcVyhnfucMqlQf9BeKeUpgR3bnAoEk9OSPPfdpm/YRaGvBTnBOD6z8mItKALGJ1IWU6uLatPQsd4HEWDCcMsp4mrYmZj2Yb/pnlJddTNsvx6T4+UYgf32ZwYYQMshpKJibsXQoS/BCda6tceUNkoIAjL+6K93IDaH17SkDkhoqE= Received: by 10.90.90.3 with SMTP id n3mr2487940agb; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.100.11 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6863f0c90609121829u7efd18d2o42c51e37e36d4ab6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:29:46 -0500 From: jmc To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060912205302.E36880@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060912092617.F2717@shanty.ipnstock.com> <6863f0c90609120640w15be76a2sf79b70936e6897a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060912122313.T36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121425n330c863cj71e41edc36ec552@mail.gmail.com> <6863f0c90609121433i78c0a18bp6daab2d40c40bca2@mail.gmail.com> <20060912183852.Y36880@ganymede.hub.org> <6863f0c90609121557y57bda068y4e5442608e3208f7@mail.gmail.com> <20060912205302.E36880@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh ilo question X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:31:24 -0000 On 9/12/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > "Virtual KVM text mode" is referring to using the Web interface to > > access the Graphical Console -- as I said earlier iLO is using a DVI > > type connection to the video controller, so it cannot tell if the system > > is in text or graphics mode. With iLO-2 this is not available in the > > Telnet/SSH interface (which is textual only) because iLO-2 cannot > > "screen-scrape" the text off of the graphical screen. > > Okay, excuse me for being dense here, but I just want to make sure that > I'm not going to regret upgrading to iLO-2 ... Marc, No excuses are necessary, and I apologize for any confusion. The features of iLO are so numerous and diverse that it is very difficult to explain them in an email. Accessing iLO-2 through the web browser, and starting up the Remote > Console within the web browser (ie. getting the Java one) will still give > me all the features (BIOS and Operating System console) that I'm getting > out of iLO-1 right now ... its only if I want/need to go in through SSH > will I no longer be able to do this ... > Is that correct? That is almost right. The iLO-2 STANDARD web interface will give you access to everything you mention, up to the point when an operating system loads. To access the VGA console *after* an OS loads requires either the iLO-2 Standard Blade Edition (included with all c-Class BladeSystem server blades) or an upgrade to iLO-2 ADVANCED (if you are using a non-blade ProLiant server). Now, if you are using SSH, you can use the virtual serial port (VSP) to access the BIOS setup screens. Once an OS loads, it can provide a serial text console on the VSP, but the VGA-text console is not available through SSH on iLO-2. If so, is there an upgrade I can put onto my new server to get iLO-2? Or > will that only be available on new servers? The 'environment stuff' > really has me intrigued, and I haven't put anything critical onto that > server yet ... It is not possible to upgrade from iLO-1 to iLO-2. iLO-2 is a new ASIC (chip) that is on the motherboard of the latest servers. -- John From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 13 12:01:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C9316A412 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:01:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482E143D45 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:01:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (apqbqj@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8DC0w4O073199; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:01:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k8DC0vFD073198; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:00:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:00:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200609131200.k8DC0vFD073198@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG, gallasch@free.de, chris+freebsd-proliant@schug.net In-Reply-To: <20060912171926.GB574@voodoo.schug.net> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-proliant User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:01:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Smart Array 6i and FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG, gallasch@free.de, chris+freebsd-proliant@schug.net List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:01:21 -0000 Christoph Schug wrote: > Kai Gallasch wrote: > > userland software for the smart array 6i: > > > > I heard that there is a userland binary for the smart array 6i available > > from HP which is said to work with FreeBSD (Linux emulation). > > Where do I find this Linux package? (RPM?) I searched HP but cannot find > > the stuff. > > I guess you're talking about the tools at [1]. AFAIK those tools do not > work on recent FreeBSD releases but I may be wrong. > [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/ They work fine on 6.1-RELEASE (and RELENG_6) if compat5 is installed. > > environmental monitoring: > > > > It seems that the mbmon port does not work with the DL385 hardware. How > > can I monitor the server/cpu temperature of the server in a 100% FreeBSD > > environment? Is there a way to make snmp queries to the ilo Interface > > and use an snmp oid that gives back temperature an fanhealth values? > > AFAIK you can't. You can. The hpasmd/hpasmcli tools at [1] (see above) can be used for that purpose. (One important thing is that hpasmd should only be started with the -i option. Without it, random reboots can happen under certain conditions.) See example below. Regarding RAID5: Personally I try to avoid it. If HA is a concern, I recommend to use RAID1. Just my 2 cents. Best regards Oliver PS: Using hpasmd + hpasmcli on a HP ProLiant DL360 G4 to report temperature, fans, and UID LED status: # uname -rs FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE # hpasmcli -s "show temp; show fans; show uid" Sensor Location Temp Threshold ------ -------- ---- --------- #0 SYSTEM_BD - - #1 I/O_ZONE 38C/100F 63C/145F #2 CPU#1 46C/114F 85C/185F #3 CPU#2 47C/116F 85C/185F #4 POWER_SUPPLY_BAY 32C/89F 48C/118F #5 SYSTEM_BD 30C/86F 41C/105F Fan Location Present Speed of max Redundant Partner Hot-pluggable --- -------- ------- ----- ------ --------- ------- ------------- #1 PROCESSOR_ZONE Yes NORMAL 49% Yes 0 No #2 SYSTEM Yes NORMAL 49% Yes 0 No UID is currently off. # hpasmcli -s "set uid on" UID is now on. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "Python tricks" is a tough one, cuz the language is so clean. E.g., C makes an art of confusing pointers with arrays and strings, which leads to lotsa neat pointer tricks; APL mistakes everything for an array, leading to neat one-liners; and Perl confuses everything period, making each line a joyous adventure . -- Tim Peters