topic Re: iLO script tools (hponcfg) for VMWare? in Server Management - Remote Server Management

iLO script tools (hponcfg) for VMWare?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:48:27 GMT

Hi All,

I'm looking around for a version of the hponcfg tool that can be used on VMWare ESX 3.5 Update 3?

It seems pretty elusive, and I have seen many "hacky" solutions that do not work with our version of ESX (eg: install the redhat version blah-noarch, and you might need to install this, and then it *might* work).

Anyone had any experience in this area?

Re: iLO script tools (hponcfg) for VMWare?

David Claypool — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:28:49 GMT

As you observe, using a Linux version 'may' work, but this tool is officially unsupported in the VMware COS.

Re: iLO script tools (hponcfg) for VMWare?

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:31:11 GMT

Thanks for the reply David,

Is there any plans to have a RIBCL tool for VMWare, or is there a technique already available for scripting that I am not already using? :) ie: can the SSH interface be used to execute scripts?

Cheers

Re: iLO script tools (hponcfg) for VMWare?

pratap m keshava — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:52:14 GMT

You can use Perl script locfg.pl which is available for Linux. It can run RIBCL scripts. It is available as part of sample XML script package for iLO.

One thing, iLO should be on Network for this to work. You don't need to execute this from within the host OS on the server. In order to run the locfg.pl script you may have to install some open source libraries.

Re: iLO script tools (hponcfg) for VMWare?

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:04:15 GMT

Thanks Pratap,

Thats just the answer I needed. I'll go down this path to make things work :)