After a few hours poking around a newly deployed UCS cluster trying to get some basic profiles created and assigned. I realized that I had actually no idea how the KVM is actually supposed to work inside the UCS cluster. Which is funny as this was a subject that we touched on during my DCUDC class. Apparently we did not touch on it enough.
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Reset HP ILO Via the Command Line
Its not unheard of that an HP ILO can become sick and slow down to a crawl. When this occurs a restart of the ILO is in order, which is easily accomplished via the ILO cli interface. Make sure that you have enabled ssh access in ilo.
ProLiant System Management Homepage
The HP Systems management homepage is a web based utility for managing and monitoring Proliant Servers. It can be installed via the ProLiant Support Pack DVD (on linux its just an rpm). Once installed you can modify the default settings via the perl script, hpSMHSetup.pl located in /usr/local/hp. To access your server's homepage navigate to … Continue reading ProLiant System Management Homepage
Sun 5220 Console and ILOM How To
As far as I know this documentation is specific to Sun T5150s and Sun T5250s. However some of the information below may also pertain to other Sun systems running ILOM.