topic Re: Create iLO Local User in BladeSystem - General

Create iLO Local User

Guido Pinamonti_1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:27:04 GMT

How do I go about creating a second local iLO user for all my HP blades? I've seen references to hponcfg and xml files, but it doesn't appear that hponcfg will allow you to run against multiple blades. If you have a specific example of how do to this, I would appreciate it. Thx!

Re: Create iLO Local User

Gary Benavides Meza — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:42:44 GMT

Login to the Onboard Administrator on a C-class bladesystem.
- Click on devices bays, select the server, click on ILO, then click on Web Administration.
- Once logged into ILO click on the Administration tab, then at the left select User Administration and once there you can create Local Accounts or Group Accounts.

Re: Create iLO Local User

Guido Pinamonti_1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:56:21 GMT

I should have been more specific. I want to create another local user on 96 blades. I don't want to do this manually. I'd like to use a script.

Re: Create iLO Local User

Gary Benavides Meza — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:43:54 GMT

I see! Then do it 96 times, just kidding!! You need to use the CPFQLOCFG.exe to do this. Find attached the XML Script to add user with this reply. You need to know the credentials for an existing ILO User. You can do this from a remote machine.

You can download the utility from the following link:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=1121516&prodNameId=3288134&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-4a29e4a6ae704efca1eecf3cf4

The syntax will be as below. You can read the ILO user credentials from a file to generate the command line while sending the script.

cpqlocfg.exe -s [servername|ipaddress]|[:port] -l [logfilename] -f [input filename] -v -c -u [username] -p [password]

Re: Create iLO Local User

Guido Pinamonti_1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:51:52 GMT

Thx! I had to download CPQLOCFG.EXE from http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=MTX-5ee197c5bd7641359f45d876b1&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Re: Create iLO Local User

Jimmy Vance — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:42:21 GMT

You can use HPONCFG, that's built into the Onboard Administrator

SSH into the OA and run "help hponcfg". You can send the XML to all the iLO's at the same time "hponcfg all" Doing it through OA, you don't need to know a valid user account on the iLO as long as the OA user has the proper access level. If your desktop is Windows, you can use "plink" to script out the whole process.

If you use hponcfg through the OA you need to leave the tag in the XML syntax even though it isn't used. If using cpqlocfg the LOGIN USER_LOGIN tag needs to be a valid user

Re: Create iLO Local User

Adrian Clint — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:29:24 GMT

Like Jimmy says ...you want to use the HPCONCFG in the OA CLI.

use the following script exactly (apart form newuser/newpassword to change them all at once.

HPONCFG all << end_marker

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Re: Create iLO Local User

Guido Pinamonti_1 — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:33:49 GMT

Ahhh. I've seen references to HPONCFG but when you run this utility on the blade itself, you don't get the ALL option. Once I SSH'd to the blade chassis and ran HPONCFG, the ALL option shows up in the Help. Thx again!

Re: Create iLO Local User

Adrian Clint — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:41:49 GMT

Now you can use the CPQLOCFG to talk to them via IP using the common username you just set in the HPCONCFG.
Thats my plan anyway!