From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 22 22:32:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34811065671 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:32:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail5out.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79B48FC1B for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:32:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail5out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 791702218825; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:31:59 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <47E588DF000033884D7DE9@BarNet> Received: from mail5auth.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail5auth.barnet.com.au", Issuer "*.barnet.com.au" (verified OK)) by mail5.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E72421B2070; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:31:59 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (k7.mavetju.org [10.251.1.18]) by mail5auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0632218807; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:31:58 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 823F3286; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:31:58 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:31:58 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Ulf Zimmermann Message-ID: <20080322223158.GA15340@k7.mavetju> References: <24B7C28CEC086FAB879910E4@ganymede.hub.org> <20080316210435.R2097@shanty.ipnstock.com> <20080322220100.GG26105@evil.alameda.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080322220100.GG26105@evil.alameda.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Love to hate iLO ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:32:01 -0000 On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:09:42PM -0400, Brad Miele wrote: > > Out of 8 dl3x machines that i have, your experience describes only one of > > them. I had one where the iLO hung as you described and even cold resets > > wouldn't bring it back. HP said that it was most likely the board, and > > wanted to replace it. But for whatever reason, I never got them in to do > > it. So I went on hope that this Achilles heel machine would stay up. > > Ultimately it crashed hard, and the saving grace was that for some > > reason, that final remote hands reset brought the iLO back to life and I > > was able to fsck through it. It has been up since, about 4 months. > > We currently have about 200 HP servers and once in a while I will get > iLOs which need a hard reset (remove power from system). But if iLO > starts to become unresponsive, a reset from OS (Linux in our case *sigh*) > will usual bring it back up. Even the OS reset is not very often. Once in a while we just need to restart the network part of it, but that can be done by taking out the cable and putting it back in. Or as we do: reboot the iLO-switch (which is a dumb 10/100 Mb switch). There is a more serious issue, when you ~. out of an SSH session while you are in the remote console. That requires a cold reboot of the whole system (i.e. not only a "power off" from inside the iLO, but a full pwoer down of the system). Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/