topic Re: Black screen while accessing ILO in BladeSystem - General

Black screen while accessing ILO

Sunil Sharma_1 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:04:59 GMT

It seems I have some issue in network configuration, I could access ILO from my office netwrok but when I triedto do same via Citrix it give me black screen.

Please suggest what ports need to be open to function ILO.

sunil

Re: Black screen while accessing ILO

Cederberg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:13:17 GMT

Hi.

here are both the ilo 3 and ilo 2 default ports.

ILO3

SSH 22
Web (non-SSL) 80
SSL 443
IPMI-over-LAN 623
Remote Console 17990
Virtual Media 17988

ILO2

22 Secure Shell (SSH)
23 Remote Console / telnet
80 Web Server Non-SSL (HTTP)
443 Web Server SSL (HTTPS)
3389 Terminal Services
17988 Virtual Media
9300 Shared Remote Console
17990 Console Replay
3002 Raw Serial Data

Re: Black screen while accessing ILO

Sunil Sharma_1 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:23:56 GMT

Telnet port is blocked, is thereanyway I can use ssh for remote console.

Regards

Sunil

Re: Black screen while accessing ILO

Cederberg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:56:17 GMT

No you can't use ssh for Remote console.

The remote console doesn't use the protocol telnet but only the port. This port can be changed to a custom port. Must be done on all ILO's.

Go to Administration --> Access

Here you can change the port number for telnet/remoteconsole

And disabling telnet access to the ilo. Can't remember if it's disabled by default

Re: Black screen while accessing ILO

Jimmy Vance — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:17:31 GMT

what do you mean by "Citrix"? That usually means some form of terminal services/remote desktop or VDI that would still be on your office network. If your coming in over a VPN, you should still be able to access iLO, as again, you would be on your office network.

If your doing some other type of network access where your passing through a firewall, you will either have to open the ports or create some type of secure tunnel.

If you have an advanced iLO license you can ssh into iLO and use remcons (iLO2) or textcons (iLO3) and get to the console. This only works if the host OS has a text based console.

Re: Black screen while accessing ILO

Cederberg — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:46:46 GMT

I just assumed he was connecting from a different VLAN than his office desktop was on and there for had different firewall or ACL settings.

It can also be that the Citrix server doesn't have the "add-in" required to display ilo2 IRC. Have you tried the Java version?