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iLo failure after firmware flash

 
ccoho
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iLo failure after firmware flash

After flashing firmware 2.5 to the iLo of all of my servers, one of them (ml310e Gen8) the ilo stopped responding.  i was getting messages in the system log of windows that ilo was resetting.  this was happening every minute or so.  I also cannot access the ilo page.  If I put a ping on, it will ping a few packets, then fail a few packets, then ping a few, etc.

The ilo config utility says it can't communicate with ilo.

I've tried a complete power cycle to reset the ilo but that didn't help.  I tried reflashing firmware (from within windows) but it fails because it can't communicate with the ilo.  I'm not on site, its a remote location so i have not tried flashing from a bootable support pack.

Any ideas?  It has to be from the firmware flash, is there any way to recover or is the ilo damaged?  thoughts?

Thanks!

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PWIT
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Re: iLo failure after firmware flash

We have something similar going on.    Started after applying SPP 2016.10.0 which included iLO version 2.50.

Models:  DL380 Gen9, DL360 G9, DL380p Gen8

It happened to 75% of the servers that were updated.  The iLOs would go unresponsive for 5 minutes up to a few hours at a time.   Then it got progressively worse.  They would stay offline longer and longer.   Whenever I would catch one online (using PingInfoView checking the whole list every minute) I would login and reset the iLO real quick.   Then I reverted them all back to 2.40.   It helped a little.  Now I have 50% of them going offline once or twice a day at an average of 24 minutes at a time. 

Opened a ticket with HP.   They had me send AHS logs from bad servers, good servers, different models, etc.

Now I can't get a response from them.

If I learn anything more I will post it.

ccoho
Advisor

Re: iLo failure after firmware flash

I appreciate that... Unfortunately I can't access the iLo interface even when pings are responding.
Torsten.
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Re: iLo failure after firmware flash

This may help:

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04996097


Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.

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ccoho
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Re: iLo failure after firmware flash

No luck so far, unable to reflash firmware remotely any way I've tried.  I'm hoping when i can get on site I can boot into a recovery environment like HP SUM or the intelligent provisioning menu and reflash it that way.