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тАО03-09-2011 01:49 AM
тАО03-09-2011 01:49 AM
Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
> but if I have one, then it'd be news to me.
The ipmiutil homepage says
"If you are using the IPMI LAN interface with ipmiutil utilities (-N option), neither the local or remote system requires any IPMI driver."
So, if you configure IPMI LAN access in the MP LAN settings, and can connect to the MP LAN interface, it should work without an IPMI driver.
But the Shareable and the header file Kris found look interesting. I'm just now having a look...
cu,
Martin
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тАО03-09-2011 03:11 AM
тАО03-09-2011 03:11 AM
Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
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тАО03-09-2011 03:39 AM
тАО03-09-2011 03:39 AM
Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
An interesting problem, but maybe you're asking the wrong question. What you really should be asking is, "Do rx2660 hardware failures, such as a fan failure, get logged into ERRLOG.SYS? And if so, is there an OpenVMS-supported mechanism for reporting them automatically?"
(The WEBES/SEA stuff used to do this on Alpha, I don't know if it will do this on Integrity.)
Regards,
Jeremy Begg
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тАО03-09-2011 06:42 AM
тАО03-09-2011 06:42 AM
Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
I set up our RX2660 so that the MP ports were on the cluster LAN (separated off), I can log in via SSH or TELNET go do maintenance. This preusmably could be scripted and the output parsed.
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тАО03-09-2011 10:08 AM
тАО03-09-2011 10:08 AM
Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
Purely Personal Opinion
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тАО03-09-2011 10:46 AM - last edited on тАО08-25-2011 01:16 PM by Kevin_Paul
тАО03-09-2011 10:46 AM - last edited on тАО08-25-2011 01:16 PM by Kevin_Paul
Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
You're not going to get a pretty lights display nor a traditional OpenVMS system service interface (!?) nor anything even resembling the general approach you've requested here, and you probably don't really want that anyway, as (when these Itanium boxes do fail, and all marketing around "RAS features" aside) hardware failures will tend to wedge or even crash the host OS. (There are some cases that won't crash and burn, but those cases are usually not where you want sound the klaxons.)
It is usually best to receive and process iLO or iLO2 SNMP traps from a remote server.
Configure the iLO device to send SNMP traps to a server on your local network that you're using to coordinate these activities. This server will be running Nagios or some other SNMP software tool.
You can have up to three target servers, IIRC.
Nagios plug-ins associated with HP devices are here:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Server-Hardware/HP-(Compaq)
The target server here (and again, running Nagios or otherwise) usually isn't VMS. Use of Unix here is probably easiest; this stuff all just works, and you'll have more of a tussle getting VMS to work.
If/when you wade into the world of iLO- or iLO2-generated SNMP traps, make sure the iLO and iLO2 firmware is current, as earlier versions of these devices can skip sending out some traps for certain significant events.
For the reverse, there's also some Perl code around that uses XML to allow a remote host to query the iLO2; see:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Server-Hardware/HP-%28Compaq%29/check_ilo2_health/details
IIRC, some of (all of?) the in-bound SNMP stuff is pass-through, and the in-bound SNMP message traffic ends up getting passed upstairs and into whatever Insight Management agents are running (and they must be running) in the host OS. Put another way, iLO and iLO2 don't seem to have their own SNMP implementations, which means SNMP "discussions" with a semi-dead server are a non-starter.
The iLO and iLO2 ITRC forum is here:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ITRC-remote-lights-out-mgmt-iLO/bd-p/itrc-298
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тАО03-09-2011 01:08 PM
тАО03-09-2011 01:08 PM
Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
And that's the answer I gave you to begin with.
Have them point a web brower to the ILO port and voila!
Hein
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тАО03-10-2011 02:07 AM
тАО03-10-2011 02:07 AM
Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
Reading the entire thread to date, I would agree with the premise: Bring back the MP LAN connection. Of course, on a separate LAN. One then has the full virtual front panel display (in effect, the "light" can come on anywhere that the console MP can be reached).
- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com
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тАО03-14-2011 06:05 AM
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тАО03-14-2011 06:10 AM
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Re: Writing software to pick up state of Integrity server front panel health LEDs
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