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.
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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
Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010
If you are having issues with your HP server and were thinking about calling support, you might as well put down the phone. Seems to me that their default first step of troubleshooting is to advise you to upgrade to the latest firmware. According to HP support these were both release just a couple … Continue reading Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010