Installation Manual

• FreeIPMI—A utility for managing and configuring devices that support the IPMI version 1.5
and version 2.0 specifications. You can download FreeIPMI from the following website:
http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/.
• IPMIUTIL—A utility for managing and configuring devices that support the IPMI version 1.0,
1.5, and version 2.0 specifications. You can download IPMIUTIL from the following website:
http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/
When emulating a BMC for the IPMI interface, iLO supports all mandatory commands listed in
the IPMI version 2.0 specification. The SMS should use the methods described in the specification
for determining which IPMI features are enabled or disabled in the BMC (for example, using the
Get Device ID command).
If the server OS is running, and the iLO health driver is enabled, any IPMI traffic through the KCS
interface can affect health driver performance and system health. Do not issue any IPMI
commands through the KCS interface that might have a negative effect on health driver monitoring.
This restriction includes any command that sets or changes IPMI parameters, such as Set
Watchdog Timer and Set BMC Global Enabled. Any IPMI command that simply returns
data is safe to use, such as Get Device ID and Get Sensor Reading.
Advanced IPMI tool usage on Linux
The Linux IPMI tool has the capability to securely communicate with the iLO firmware by using
the IPMI 2.0 RMCP+ protocol. This is the ipmitool lanplus protocol feature.
For example: To retrieve the iLO Event Log, enter:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H <iLO ip address> -U <username> -P <password> sel
list
Output example:
1 | 03/18/2000 | 00:25:37 | Power Supply #0x03 | Presence detected | Deasserted
2 | 03/18/2000 | 02:58:55 | Power Supply #0x03 | Presence detected | Deasserted
3 | 03/18/2000 | 03:03:37 | Power Supply #0x04 | Failure detected | Asserted
4 | 03/18/2000 | 03:07:35 | Power Supply #0x04 | Failure detected | Asserted
Using iLO with HPE Insight Control server provisioning
HPE Insight Control server provisioning is integrated with iLO to enable the management of
remote servers and the performance of Remote Console operations, regardless of the state of
the OS or hardware.
The deployment server enables you to use the power management features of iLO to power on,
power off, or cycle power on the target server. Each time a server connects to the deployment
server, the deployment server polls the target server to verify that an iLO device is installed. If
installed, the server gathers information, including the DNS name, IP address, and user login
name. Security is maintained by requiring the user to enter the correct password for that user
name.
For more information about HPE Insight Control server provisioning, see the documentation on
the HPE Insight Control website at http://www.hpe.com/info/insightcontrol.
Using Enterprise Secure Key Manager with iLO
The Key Manager page enables you to connect to an operational key manager, change
redundancy settings, view the key manager connection settings, test the connection, and view
key management events.
iLO 4 1.40 and later supports HPE Enterprise Secure Key Manager 3.1 and later, which can be
used in conjunction with HPE Secure Encryption.
• HPE Secure Encryption supports HPE Smart Array controllers and provides data-at-rest
encryption for direct-attached HDD or SSD storage connected to Hewlett Packard Enterprise
270 Using iLO with other software products and tools