[GTALUG] access to iLO on HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 Server

[Aurelian Melinte]

On 27/08/2024 10:55, Zbigniew Koziol via talk wrote:
> Greetings to all who may be remember me (it is already around 16 years
> as I left Canada). To others - too :)
>
> I have bought that machine for computer simulations in physics, not
> having before experience with similar ones.
>
> The first start and installing mint there went easy. My guess is that
> I shut it down improperly (I do not remember details).

Hi,

This is more of a question for a full fledged admin but AFAIK:

  * I suspect this is an HP machine. Do search exactly for the manual of
    that machine. HP has a number of iterations (GenX e.g. Gen10) so you
    need the exact manual to find the battery location
  * I think there is no need to reset the BIOS if you did not change the
    iLO password
  * plug a monitor - there should be a video/VGA port on the back. When
    it boots, it will display the iLO IP
  * Press F11 (on my models) - you will get into a one-time boot menu
    and you could boot an USB stick
  * Power button: you may need to long-press it for a full shutdown


>
> Now, it is my guess, the machine is in standby mode (when power is
> connected). The unfortunate thing is that I did not do any initial
> BIOS configuration and I did not care to write down iLO IP address.
>
> The lights on both power suppliers are off. The light on the front is
> amber. Two lights near iLO cable are green, one solid, the second is
> blinking, suggesting that iLO works properly.
>
> By reading the internet and documentation I found out that sometime
> people have similar problems. What is advised is resetting the beast
> to factory setting. That apparently can be done by 3 methods: 1) with
> some magic of removing/swapping power suppliers, 2) by changing S6 to
> ON on system maintenance switch and 3) by removing CMOS battery.
>
> I did try the methods 1) and 2). In case of method 3) - I do not know
> how to remove battery. It does not look the same as it is drawn in the
> original technical documentation.
>
> Now, I thought I will try to use iLO. First, I need its IP address.
> Yes, I know basics of using ping, nmap, etc. However, I have at home a
> simple Huawey router. It allows to have netmask of the type
> 255.255.255.0, only, hence scanning the entire possible IP range is in
> practice, impossible.
>
> It happened that that I discovered an option on my desktop computer to
> configure the network connection as "shared to other computers".
> Hence, connected to cable directly to iLO and found out that my IP is
> now 10.42.0.1. Does that mean that this is IP of iLO? That would be a
> something, however, the problem does not end there.
>
> How to connect to iLO anyway? My Huawey router does not allow me to
> change a configuraion in such a way that 10.42.0.1 could be an address
> of a connected device: it wants 10.42.0.1 to be the gateway address.
>
> Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
>
>

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