Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 03:17:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Pavel Timofeev <timp87@gmail.com> To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: RE: hpilo in FreeBSD Message-ID: <28593996.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <02c201caf66e$d9fd44d0$8df7ce70$@org> References: <AANLkTinAq8ys1mpVe4vrVWKo2wTM2-reFeiDGhhrug09@mail.gmail.com> <20100517163924.GL30353@evil.alameda.net> <AANLkTikRnLkS2q-bJ7sQyy4-NDP1XIOxhlkbxAJd7--M@mail.gmail.com> <20100517193725.GM30353@evil.alameda.net> <AANLkTimOLGPNePszPKLJEEMz8vaQxIb5fuFHATLyfGQh@mail.gmail.com> <20100518074934.GR30353@evil.alameda.net> <02c201caf66e$d9fd44d0$8df7ce70$@org>
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I totally agree with you! I am very surprised that this is not done until now, and nobody even though= t about it. Du=C5=A1=C3=A1tko Jan wrote: >=20 > HP ProLiant uses: > - the SmartArray (drivers/modules/something), most of them supported > - NIC, which is de-facto Broadcom or Intel > - iLO, which is not supported > - Server management, not supported >=20 > Right now in FreeBSD is waste of support: > - for array reconfiguration utility=20 > (on the fly, I used it many times in Win/Novell world) > - server health monitoring > (HP allow as many other vendors monitoring of server health) > - Remote console and media support > (HP iLO) >=20 > But similar situation are for other vendors too. People who trying > to solve this issue are overloaded and they do as much as possible, > but most of their work is investigation due lack of documentation > and resources. >=20 >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:37:55AM +0400, Pavel Timofeev wrote: >> > > Red Hat 5.5 (and CentOS 5.5, respectively) contains a driver for >> iLO, which >> > is >> > > called hpilo. >> > >> > Yes, I`m sure. >> > >> > > And I just checked RedHat EL5 Update 5, there are no packages >> included >> > > which start with hp. >> > >> > Excuse me, please, I forgot to say the main thing: this is not >> package, this is >> > kernel module (I previously called it 'driver')! >> > Sorry for confusion! >> > >> > for example: >> > /sbin/modprobe hpilo >>=20 >> Ok, the kernel module is there: >>=20 >> itrepofrmt01 root mnt/Server # rpm -q -l -p kernel-2.6.18- >> 194.el5.i686.rpm | grep -i ilo >> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/kernel/drivers/misc/hpilo.ko >>=20 >> This kernel is also provided by the hp-ilo rpm from HP. This rpm also >> provides >> a source code to rebuild the module. So it could be used to port it to >> FreeBSD. >> But the ilo module is not the only thing to manage a HP server. There >> are >> other programs and items, which make the whole management suite. But >> for the >> other stuff, not everything is provided with source. >>=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 >=20 --=20 View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/hpilo-in-FreeBSD-tp2858= 4056p28593996.html Sent from the freebsd-proliant mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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