Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:31:58 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Love to hate iLO ... Message-ID: <20080322223158.GA15340@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20080322220100.GG26105@evil.alameda.net> References: <24B7C28CEC086FAB879910E4@ganymede.hub.org> <20080316210435.R2097@shanty.ipnstock.com> <20080322220100.GG26105@evil.alameda.net>
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:09:42PM -0400, Brad Miele wrote: > > 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. > > We currently have about 200 HP servers and once in a while I will get > iLOs which need a hard reset (remove power from system). But if iLO > starts to become unresponsive, a reset from OS (Linux in our case *sigh*) > will usual bring it back up. Even the OS reset is not very often. Once in a while we just need to restart the network part of it, but that can be done by taking out the cable and putting it back in. Or as we do: reboot the iLO-switch (which is a dumb 10/100 Mb switch). There is a more serious issue, when you ~. out of an SSH session while you are in the remote console. That requires a cold reboot of the whole system (i.e. not only a "power off" from inside the iLO, but a full pwoer down of the system). Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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