HP's iLO on the DL180 does appear to respond to IPMI commands via ipmitools. One of the things I did not look at so far was the logging, but that's because I'm not interested in monitoring that (....though I could see an integration point with rancid here...).
Frank -----Original Message----- From: Andy Cress [mailto:andy.cr...@us.kontron.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:53 AM To: Francois Isabelle; Carsten Aulbert; ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Accessing ipmitools over network IIRC, the HP iLO will respond normally to some IPMI commands, but the logging in particular was proprietary. They apparently write their events to a special log instead of the IPMI SEL. You could access that log remotely even so, I suppose, if you use the HP iLO utilities. Andy -----Original Message----- From: Isabelle, Francois [mailto:francois.isabe...@ca.kontron.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:29 AM To: Carsten Aulbert; ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Accessing ipmitools over network The other question is : does iLO on DL180 really speaks IPMI ? I though this was proprietary. François Isabelle | Software Designer | Kontron Canada | T 450 437 5682 |F 450 437 8053 | E francois.isabe...@ca.kontron.com -----Message d'origine----- De : Carsten Aulbert [mailto:carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de] Envoyé : 7 mai 2009 01:49 À : ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Accessing ipmitools over network Hi Frank Bulk schrieb: > I have several HP DL180 G5's that I would like to monitor remotely from a > NAGIOS server using ipmitools. While each of the DL180's has a dedicated > iLO port, rather than wire them up and burn up expensive switch ports, I was > wondering if there was a way I could somehow using the regular network > interface and proxy requests to each server's BMC. Based on the behavior of > "ipmitools -I lan" option, it looks like it's trying to talk to port 623 on > the remote server. Obviously this proxy agent running on the remote server > would need to be listening to port 623 and pass that packet on to the remote > server's open or imb IPMI interface. I've looked at dpcproxy, and that > appears to be a telnet-based interface to a CLI, not a mechanism I believe > ipmitools can use. I'm not sure how the IPMI cards are presented to the system, but can you query them locally, i.e. ipmitool -I open sdr or ipmitool -I imb and create nagios plugins locally, that way you don't need to fiddle around a proxy. However, all this takes away one major pro of a dedicated port, you will not be able to query/power cycle the box remotely if the box is down already. My advise would be, buy a cheap switch and connect the dedicated ports to it. A working 48 port switch costs less than $300 and is far less hassle - provided the boxes are not too far away from each other. 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