iLO3 version 1.26 released

[Oscar A. Perez]

Upgrade Requirement:
 Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

 Customers that are using iLO 3 v1.25 are recommended to update their iLO's to v1.26.
 
Fixes:
 Problems Fixed:
     v1.26
• The Auto Power On setting on HP ProLiant Blade Servers was reversed.  This issue was introduced in version 1.25.  See Customer Advisory:
   http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?locale=en_US&objectID=c02913412    
• HP ProLiant Blade Servers might request maximum power from the Onboard Administrator. This issue was introduced in version 1.25. Depending on how much power the enclosure has available, OA could reject Power On requests from other blades in the enclosure.     http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02975068   
• Running Secure Shell (SSH) using a Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) private key larger than 2048 bit might make Integrated Lights Out 3 (iLO 3) web server and SSH stop responding.
• Virtual Media thread might randomly stop responding after connecting a drive, folder or image.  Virtual media would be unavailable until iLO 3 is rebooted.    
• Virtual Media thread might stop responding after running an XML script that changes any of the iLO3 Global Settings. Virtual media would be unavailable until iLO 3 is rebooted.   
• Invoking Virtual Serial Port (VSP) or Textcons might take up to two minutes to work if DNS servers in iLO  3 are improperly configured or DNS servers are unreachable.    
• After rebooting the server the following error message might display during POST: “Warning – iLO 3 not responding. System health monitoring disabled.”    
• Pasting text into a VSP session may not work properly if the server is in ROM Based Setup Utility (RBSU) CLI mode.
• In a VMware ESXi 4.0 or 4.1 environment on the HP ProLiant DL360 G7, HP ProLiant DL380 G7, and the HP ProLiant DL580 G7 servers iLO 3 may report an erroneous 9006 condition.
• After performing a warm boot on the HP ProLiant BL460c G7, the blade might randomly fail to discover all the installed memory DIMMs.
• Nessus Security Scanner might cause the iLO web server to stop responding.
     
    
     v1.25
• Opening a Java Remote Console and attempting to acquire an in-use Remote Console session caused Java and Internet Explorer to stop responding.     
• Opening a .NET Integrated Remote Console from a Windows 7 client caused the language icon on the Taskbar to disappear.     
• The Configure iLO privilege is required for users to successfully run any XML script containing the <RIB_INFO> tag.     
• Running an XML script to change one iLO 3 port number caused a "Port assignment must be unique" failure.     
• Using an XML script to apply a new SNTP Time zone setting would not work.     
• Using RIBCL and running GET_EmHealth.xml caused an incorrect power supply status.     
• Using RIBCL and running CERT_Request.xml from HPONCFG or LOCFG.pl caused a failure.     
• Using fence_ipmilan to power down the server caused a server reboot.     
• Users were unable to add multiple IP addresses for the Directory Server Address field in the Web GUI.

Note: For users that previously upgraded to v1.25, HP recommends that those users update to v.1.26 at their earliest convenience.

   
 
Enhancements:
• Added support for Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7, 8, and 9.  Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will no longer be supported    
• Added the capability to restart the server operating system following a power interruption (Brown-Out) that is short enough to reset the OS, but not long enough to reset iLO.  Restarting the server after a power interruption long enough to reset iLO (Black-Out) was already supported.  
• Added support for SSL Certificate customization, allowing the user to enter customer-specific data for Country, State, City or Locality, Organization Name, Organizational Unit and Common Name.
• Added support for Hard Drive Health Monitoring on HP ProLiant G7 ML/DL/BL servers to provide drive status under the iLO UI Drives tab on the System Information page.

Download from the below links:

Online ROM Flash Component for Windows x64 - HP Integrated Lights-Out 3
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-windows-fw-ilo/p1728391553/v70180

Online ROM Flash Component for Windows - HP Integrated Lights-Out 3
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-windows-fw-ilo/p901462262/v70181

Online ROM Flash Component for Linux - HP Integrated Lights-Out 3
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-linux-fw-ilo/p1255562964/v70182

[VladNagornyi]

Why VMware ESX 4.1 is not included in the OS list? Only ESX 3.5 and 4.0 are listed...

[Nicolai Rasmussen]

That's great, but when are we going to have the "Interface Status: Not Responding" on the SMH page fixed???

It's bugging the sh** out of my SCOM guys that half of our servers is in an UNHEALTHY state, because SNMP agents are reporting the iLO3 interface as NOT responding - even though the interface appear to be working just fine (the interface is pingable and I can access the web and integrated console)...

[Oscar A. Perez]

As a matter of fact, I'm working on that issue right now. As far as I can tell, this is a Windows Agents issue, not an iLO3 firmware problem. 

[Oscar A. Perez]

ESX 4.1 is supported. We will fix the release notes on the next release.

[anthony11]

How's about the bizarre power meter entry that "ipmitool sensor" returns, with the state anomalously set to CRITICAL?  This is causing our monitoring guy no small amount of grief.

Power Meter      | 126.000    | Watts      | cr    | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        

[Oscar A. Perez]

What server model is this?