Hello, HP has "recently" released an update to iLO3, bringing it up to v1.50. Most important in this update is the ability to monitor disk drives through IPMI. This update only applies to BL/ML/SL/DL servers G7.
A complete list of enhancements can be found at: http://is.gd/aCWHvd It seems unlikely a similar update is in the works for iLO2. HP has also updated its severely limited documentation but doesn't seem to have expanded the iLO sections in the documentation at all. I've tested this on a few of our machines and with the new firmware and freeipmi 0.7.17 (Debian stable). We now get disk status, the output looks like this: 46: Cntlr 1 Bay 1 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 47: Cntlr 1 Bay 2 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 48: Cntlr 1 Bay 3 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 49: Cntlr 1 Bay 4 (Drive Slot): [OK] 50: Cntlr 2 Bay 5 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 51: Cntlr 2 Bay 6 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 52: Cntlr 2 Bay 7 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 53: Cntlr 2 Bay 8 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 54: Cntlr 3 Bay 1 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 55: Cntlr 3 Bay 2 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 56: Cntlr 3 Bay 3 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 57: Cntlr 3 Bay 4 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 58: Cntlr 4 Bay 5 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 59: Cntlr 4 Bay 6 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 60: Cntlr 4 Bay 7 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] 61: Cntlr 4 Bay 8 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence] A status of OK means there's no drive installed in that slot, Drive Presence means a drive is installed and operational. Turning on the UID of a drive does not affect the output, it will still display Drive Presence or OK. I've yet to determine what it will output when a drive is failing. ipmi-sensors -L now also has a new category: Drive_Slot According to the release notes it it also possible to read temperature sensors on select Smart Array Controllers, but I haven't been able to figure out what ours are and if it should work. bmc-info now gives: Device ID: 19 Device Revision: 1 Firmware Revision: 1.50 [Device Available (normal operation)] IPMI Version: 2.0 Additional Device Support: [Sensor Device] [SDR Repository Device] [SEL Device] [FRU Inventory Device] [Chassis Device] Manufacturer ID: 11 Product ID: 8192 Channel Information: Channel No: 0 Medium Type: IPMB (I2C) Protocol Type: IPMB-1.0 Channel No: 2 Medium Type: 802.3 LAN Protocol Type: IPMB-1.0 Channel No: 7 Medium Type: OEM Protocol Type: KC Kind regards, -- Daniele Sluijters _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
