topic Re: Support Pack 7.30 and Management processor status in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Support Pack 7.30 and Management processor status

Pavel Jiracek — Thu, 19 May 2005 05:35:50 GMT

Hi there
After I upgraded my ML370G3 to Proliant support pack 7.3 the status of Management processor/Embedded NEC98431 and Management processor/Integrated Lights-Out
on System management Homepage changed to Faulty. I don't use iLO but it's annoying to have alerts in CIM for that server. There is no other indication or explanation of this error. Any ideas?
Shall I just disable iLO? But it worked OK before...
Thanks

Re: Support Pack 7.30 and Management processor status

Vijay_44 — Thu, 19 May 2005 05:49:52 GMT

Is your ilo configured? If not try configuring the ilo. We had a similar problem after the upgrade but our ilo was not configured and no cable was connected to the ilo port; we connected the cable, configured the ilo and updated the ilo FW and the error went away. Alternatively, if you are not using the ilo, jut disable just disable the ilo reporting agent.

Re: Support Pack 7.30 and Management processor status

Tv_3 — Thu, 19 May 2005 06:10:06 GMT

Is its wise to use the ilo.

Update the ILO driver

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/20_4307.html#12
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/20_4307.html#12

Also update the ILO firmware

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/20_4307.html#79

However, If you prefer to not use the ILO, you'd better disable them.

sincerly.

Re: Support Pack 7.30 and Management processor status

Dave K_6 — Wed, 25 May 2005 10:45:57 GMT

Where is the proper place to disable the ILO so that hpSIM does not see this any longer? In the BIOS at bootup, disable it here?

Or is there another place where I can disable it? I looked in the Device Manager, and in hpSIM on the server, but see no place to disable this NIC. We do not use the ilo port on no file servers, so we do not need hpSIM to monitor its status.

Thanks for any help,
Dave

Re: Support Pack 7.30 and Management processor status

Terry Hutchings — Wed, 25 May 2005 13:15:42 GMT

If you press F8 during POST for the ILO configuration, you should see the option to disable ILO functionality.