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

[Alvin Starr]

On 8/31/24 3:59 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 06:01:47AM +0200, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>> Lennart,
>>
>> My first email on this subject has all details. Please have a look there.
>>
>> I can not start the machine. Pushing the power button does not change
>> anything. I can not use keyboard and monitor.
> OK that does seem weird.  Certainly if the board does have a CPU or ram
> or similar problem, that would likely prevent starting it, but the iLO
> is independent and hence can run fine.
I would agree here.
It should just power on when you press the power-button.


> For the CMOS battary is it not just a normal coin cell like a CR2032?
> https://www.manualslib.com/manual/704069/Hp-Proliant-Dl360p-Gen8.html?page=89
> certainly looks like one, but it doesn't seem to actually specify what
> kind of battery it is.  They do make it sound as if that should only
> affect the clock, and not anything else in the system.
even if the cmos battery is dead the system should boot but will have a 
clock date of 2012 or something way in the past.

>
> It does seem that this model has had some tendancy towards motherboard
> failures unfortunately.  It is a 2012 model, so not exactly new after all.

> Personally I have had machines totally fail to power on due to a bad
> ram module, so trying to remove most of the ram, any PCIe cards, etc to
> make it as minimal as possible is probably worth a try.  Of course if
> the CPU is the problem, most people don't have spares of those sitting
> around to try.
>
A dead CPU is a possibility.
It would stop the system from doing much of anything.
Even with bad or wrong ram the system would try to boot and then fail 
with lots of beeps.
trying to get IPMI/iLO working without being able to boot at all will be 
a major task.
I believe that you can only change the IP address of the IPMI device 
once the system is booted.
There is a jumper that can disable the passwords but it can be a pain to 
find.


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