topic Re: Fundamentals_to_C7000_Blade in BladeSystem - General

Fundamentals_to_C7000_Blade

FrozenDreams — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:48:29 GMT

Hi all,

I am very new to this family and not to mention the blade environment. I have been tasked recently to connect the C7000 blade that I have to another switch.

I intend to connect the patch to HP GBE2C L/A SP port 23 but have no knowledge on how to check if the ports are enabled and the configurations. Can someone help me out?

Should I connect to the serial management port or should I connect to the enclosure?

Following which, how can I read and/or change configuration? Telnet? Putty? SecureCRT? I am new to all these.

Please help! Thank you in advance and pardon me for the low level question.

Very much appreciated.

Javen.

Re: Fundamentals_to_C7000_Blade

Belen_U — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:10:29 GMT

Hi,

You can find all the information in HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for c-Class BladeSystem Command Reference Guide http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c00701969

To connect to the switch you have several options (page 9):

a. Establishing a console connection

b. Setting an IP address Establishing a Telnet connection

c. Establishing an SSH connection

d. Using "connect interconnect X" (if already had access to OA) where X is bay where that module GBE2C is connected

And to configure the port (page 106) you can use Command: /cfg/port

To check port status (page 14) you can use the Main Menu to display information about the current status of the switch.

I hope this help!

Belén

Re: Fundamentals_to_C7000_Blade

FrozenDreams — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:22:59 GMT

Hi Belen,

Thank you for responding. What is the software required on my end to establish the various connections you mentioned?

Will HyperTerminal do? I have restricted access on my laptop and I am trying to work with what Windows XP has and all I can find is a command prompt and HyperTerminal.

I will read the manual for more information.

Thank you for sharing.

Javen.

Re: Fundamentals_to_C7000_Blade

Belen_U — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:50:10 GMT

Hi Javen,

Official SSH clients supported are (page 11):

• SSH 3.0.1 for Linux (freeware)
• SecureCRT® 4.1.8 (VanDyke Technologies, Inc.)
• OpenSSH_3.9 for Linux (FC 3)
• FedoraCore 3 for SCP commands
• PuTTY Release 0.58 (Simon Tatham) for Windows

But if you have restricted access on your laptop you could try HyperTerminal with vt100 emulation, although I can´t guarantee this works.

Let me know.

Belén

Re: Fundamentals_to_C7000_Blade

FrozenDreams — Wed, 06 May 2015 09:06:28 GMT

Hi Belen,

Updates:

I managed to get into GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch and verified that the relevant ports are enabled via putty/HyperTerminal using serial links through management port. Many thanks for the solution provided.

Now I wish to configure my 16 blades, BL460c Gen 8 to recognize GbE2c and route data through Port 'x' of my GbE2c. How can I do so? How can I check if links between my blades and my switch is up and running?

I now hook up to the enclosure iLO and I can see "HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator" from Firefox.

FrozenDreams.