How to turn on UID light?

[RyanCampbell]

I have looked everywhere, but cannot find out how to turn on the UID light when logged into the server remotely. I've read many posts where people say they have done it, but they never say how. I guess it can be done though HP System Management, but how?

[Feral Lewis]

I believe I did that under the system management homepage, tasks tab. may differ based on version of System Management Homepage.

[Feral Lewis]

I just looked it up on one of my servers, it has moved.

System Management homepage, System, Unit identification Device. set to on.

Hope that helps you

[KarloChacon]

hi

if you let us know which server you are taking about we can tell you how to do that depending on ilo version

regards

[RyanCampbell]

Ok, I checked both in the Tasks area and under System. I did not see an option for the UID light anywhere. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I am getting a timeout error when I load any page in System Management:

ERROR LOG (severity=2) Wed Sep 10 08:14:05 2008
UI Timeout (limit: 20s) -- Nav Load Time: 45s [breakdown: hmanics(HP NIC Agent): 0s || hmaserv(HP Server Agent): 1s || vcagent(HP Version Control Agent): 44s || webagent(HP Foundation Agent): 0s || elm(backwards compatibility): 0s]

[RyanCampbell]

Also, this is on a DL360 G4 server.

[RyanCampbell]

...I'm still looking for an answer to this question. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[RyanCampbell]

Is this some closely guarded secret? lol

I cannot figure this out. Everywhere I look leads to the idea that it can be done, but nobody every says exactly how. I know the light is there just for the purpose of remotely turning it on through software so that a technician can identify a server in a rack. I just want to know how to do it.

[David Claypool]

Does this help? Under the Tasks tab is a box labeled 'System' which has the option 'Set Unit Identification LED state.' See attached screenshot.

[RyanCampbell]

On the server I am looking at, I do not see that option under System in the Tasks tab. The only option there is "Cooling and Temperature - Thermal Degraded Action". I did log into another server that was recently put into service and it does have the UID light option. Could this be a problem with the HP System Management software? I will try reloading it and see what happens.

[deewhyehchpee]

It all depends on the server.

But if you have a ProLiant HP iLO4

The pic might help.

[vaishalig]

In right hand corner there is option of UID click in front of it and UID will be turned on

[Iain Binnie]

Hello,

In the ILO Interface if you look in the bottom right hand corner of the screen you will see beside the power indicator a button that is the UID indicator that you can click to tuen it on and off.

This is with the ILO4 and lates FW but im sure from meeory tis always been there.

Hope this helps someone !

[Ikester]

deewhyehchpee  was correct!  Good job!