[Fusioninventory-devel] HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) (Management Interface of HP ProLiant servers)

[Amir Pakdel]

Dear Gonéri,

I do not know much about blades and I have not used one!
I think BMCs are separate SingleBoardComputers and can be used as the 
management interface of multiple blades; therefore they should have a 
separate entry in the hardware table, and they can be linked to each 
blade as a management interface.
If BMCs have MAC address, a serial might be generated from it; however I 
have no idea about the Host/BMC relation!
As you said, there has not been such a thing in the FusionInventory yet 
and it will require some effort, but I volunteer to help as much as I can.

Sorry if I am not clear enough, but I am not a blade kind of guy :D


Cheers,
Amir





On 06/20/2010 07:19 AM, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> 2010/5/28 Stéphane Urbanovski<s.urbanovski at ac-nancy-metz.fr>:
>    
>> Gonéri Le Bouder a écrit :
>>      
> Sorry, I gave no answer yet.
>
> (...)
>    
>>> What field should we put to represent the iLO interfaces?
>>>        
>> It's not so simple.
>>
>> If HARDWARE table is the closest representation of a ComputerSystem, a BMC
>> should be a HARDWARE entry:
>>
>> <HARDWARE>
>> <DEDICATED>14</DEDICATED>  <!-- 14 = Server -->
>> <REL_MANAGEMENTCONTROLLER ref="bmc1"/>
>>      
> Actually, there is no attribue yet in the inventory XML, so I prefere
> to avoid them for now, I propose this instead:
> <REL_MANAGEMENTCONTROLLER>bmc1</REL_MANAGEMENTCONTROLLER>.
>
>    
>> </HARDWARE>
>> <HARDWARE id="bmc1">
>> <DEDICATED>41</DEDICATED>  <!-- 41 = Management Controller -->
>> <IPADRESS></IPADRESS>
>> <PROCESSOR></PROCESSOR>
>> ...
>> </HARDWARE>
>>
>>
>> We could even go further :
>>      
> sorry, but I prefer the first option because your second solution is
> too different of what already exist and will require more work.
>
> Amir, what is you opinion for the<HARDWARE />  solution? Do you know
> if it's possible to retrieve enough information to be able to identify
> BMC devices (Serial?) and the relations with the host (UUID, mother
> board serial number, etc).
>
> Cheers!
>