ILO | Tricks Guide

Guide: Restore HP iLO to Factory Default Settings

Posted by SiRu on April 10, 2013 · 0 Comment

If you are an Administrator of HP Servers, then you might have come across in a situation where you want to reset the HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) to Factory default settings. There can be numerous reasons to perform factory reset of iLO on your server. Here, in this article I will share the most commonly used methods to reset HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) to HP Factory default settings When you [...]

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How to reset iLO Administrator password of HP Server (HPONCFG)

Posted by SiRu on March 23, 2013 · 0 Comment

Ever wondered how to reset the forgotten password of HP iLO? Did you lost the iLO tag which was attached to the server and do not know how to reset the iLO password ? Or your Server administrator suddenly left the organization and you are left with bunch of HP Server without passwords? Are you are stuck like me? No problem, I think I can try to help you here I wanted to reset the iLO password of [...]

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IPMI over LAN (SOL) on HP Proliant Servers

Posted by SiRu on March 5, 2013 · 2 Comments

Intelligent Platform Management Interface or IPMI is a standard which allows remote management for Servers. IPMI makes use of Baseboard Management Card (BMC), BMC is a piece of hardware which is Always ON and will work regardless of the server being powered ON or OFF. BMC operates independently of the Operating System installed on the server. Moreover it allows server administrators to manage a server [...]

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Setup iLO using HP Lights-Out Online Configuration utility

Posted by SiRu on June 1, 2012 · 2 Comments

HP Lights-Out Online Configuration utility (HPONCFG) is a Windows or Linux operating system based utility available to configure iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) of your server from within the host operating system. The HPONFCG utility basically supports HP ProLiant 300/500/700 and HP Blade servers, Or in another words, it supports iLO, iLO 2, iLO 3 and iLO4. HP Lights-Out Online Configuration utility [...]

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How to find HP Hard drive Backplane Firmware Version

Posted by SiRu on April 8, 2012 · 0 Comment

Whenever you install a Hard drive to your server, it gets connected to a device called Hard Drive Backplane. Hard Drive Backplane is a single device in which all the hard drives of your server will be connected (See the photo below). Hard drive Backplane will have SATA, SAS or SCSI Hard drive compatible slots. Though in very rare instances, you may need to figure out the firmware version of Hard Drive [...]

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Setup and Configure iLO using HP Lights-Out Configuration Utility

Posted by SiRu on April 1, 2012 · 0 Comment

The HP Lights-Out Configuration Utility (HPONCFG) enables users to configure iLO, iLO 2, iLO 3 using HP SmartStart CD without requiring a server reboot. Though HPONCFG is basically used in Command Line Interface with RIBCL XML based configuration scripts, it also provides a limited Graphical User Interface (GUI). The graphical user interface provides a basic subset of the features offered by the HPONCFG [...]

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How to Configure iLO on your HP Proliant Server

Posted by SiRu on February 3, 2012 · 72 Comments

HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) is one of the bright feature available on all HP Proliant and Blade Servers (hope you are not using Antique HP/Compaq Servers). iLO allow us to manage server remotely and it works at the hardware level. So you will have access to the server even when the Operating system is crashed/not installed/Server is in Powered Off state! OK, now comes the configuration part [...]

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