topic Re: Enclosure name from blade in Server Management - Remote Server Management

Enclosure name from blade

Patrick Keys — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:27:45 GMT

Does anyone know of a way of determining the name of the enclosure (c3000) holding a BL460c blade from the blade itself under Linux? We have a requirement for our software to know which enclosure and slot the blade is housed in.

Querying the enclosure iLO controller probably won't be possible due to network configuration.

Re: Enclosure name from blade

Raghuarch — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:44:03 GMT

You need to login to iLO of the server.
Select BL c-Class TAB.
You find the which enclosure and slot the blade is housed in.

Re: Enclosure name from blade

Raghuarch — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:46:28 GMT

Install HP System Management Homepage on the Blade browse to the Blade SMH, you will be able to find the information.
More information on SMH refer to:
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/agents/index.html

Re: Enclosure name from blade

Patrick Keys — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:51:39 GMT

Thanks for the responses - I'd love to try the System Management Homepage, but after 45 minutes of following link after link to try to download the software, I eventually gave up after each link terminated in a 'we can't find the software that you want' error. Quite how HP can justify a web site that performs so badly and so slowly is beyond me - such a good advertisement for their server technology.

Anyway, rant over - will the SMH allow me to obtain this information programmatically? The reason for this is that I need to use the bay number and chassis identifier (or name) as part of a boot-time script to configure the blade in a specific way. With Dell blade servers this was easy - the information was available via SNMP.

I know that this is probably backwards to the way that most people deploy systems - however there is a real requirement within our systems to allow blades to be configured on the fly at boot time rather than pre-configured via a system management website.

Re: Enclosure name from blade

Patrick Keys — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:33:58 GMT

Have finally managed to install the System Management Homepage, but I can't see where it is possible to see the enclosure name or anything else that could be used to identify it. Any ideas?