From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 20:04:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4198A16A41F for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:04:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FBBB43D8B for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:04:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2005 20:04:02 -0000 Received: from 92.252.62.81.cust.bluewin.ch (EHLO [192.168.1.10]) [81.62.252.92] by mail.gmx.net (mp033) with SMTP; 19 Dec 2005 21:04:02 +0100 X-Authenticated: #912863 Message-ID: <43A71231.3010809@gmx.at> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:04:01 +0100 From: lars User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20051219141510.U1087@ganymede.hub.org> <43A7089B.9000603@gmx.at> <20051219154811.E1087@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20051219154811.E1087@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple server monitoring with HPs iLO ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:04:06 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, lars wrote: > >> Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm looking at deploying some HP servers in the new year,and one >>> thing that I'm finding a drawback is that their iLO, as far as I can >>> tell, would require me to open on browser window for ever server I >>> want to monitor remotely ... >>> >>> Does anyone know of any tools (OSS, preferably runs on FreeBSD) that >>> would allow me to almalgamate and monitor multiple DL servers from >>> one window? >> >> Doesn't HP's iLO have an SSH interface? > > >> From what I've been able to tell so far (not having a physical machine to > > play with yet) is that its purely web based ... for something that is > meant to be deployed in a server room, you'd think they'd have some sort > of 'integration' tool :( AFAIK HP's "integration tool" is HP OpenView, whether you want to use that is up to you. Opinions on it's quality vary. But for the SSH bit of iLO, I just logged into one of our servers. It has an SSH interface. The iLO command line is a bit odd, but usable. So remotely power cycling or marking a server from a Unix box is doable. IIRC you can even load your own key file via the web interface and henceforth log in automagically without interactively entering a password.