WORKAROUND: Should I just give up on these DL165 G7 ilo100's?

[W Sanders]

I've inherited a farm of DL165 G7's, some have been waiting on their "ilo100" board installation since they were installed. As for the ones that have a ilo100 installed, the ilo100 seems totally useless: I can't get the java virtual KVM console to work with modern browsers and JREs, and the SMASH console (via ssh, "/system1/console1 start") isn't working either.

So it makes no sense to schedule downtime for the remaining ilo100 installs if it isn't going to get me a console.

I have just a few questions before I give up: The ilo's have the "LO100 Advanced INDIVIDUAL" license installed. Is there a license I can get that will enable at least the SMASH ssh console?

Is there some OS configuration I need to do, like start a getty on some port that is somehow mapped to the SMASH console?

Thanks -w

[Jimmy Vance]

LO100i provides IPMI, DCMI, and SMASH which are activated with LO100i Advanced licenses

My first suggestion would be to make sure they are running the latest firmware

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=454671&swItemId=MTX_c77431f956cd43abac1d982a18&swEnvOid=54#tab1

[W Sanders]

Here's an intresting workaround: Instead of running the JNLP console app from the browser, download it, you will have a jar file called M2.jar.

This jar is runnable as a standalone java app: "java -jar M2.jar" or double click on it. This works for me on Windows 7 with Java 8 and also on Mavericks with the legacy Java 6 that comes with MacOS.

Works for me, so not going to even try a FW upgrade. Besides scheduleing downtime, I've bricked more thn one HP server with buggy firmware upgrades, and can't risk it on these production boxes.