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

[Amir Pakdel]

Dear Bruno,

Thanks for the info :)
One more thing: What about BMC?
Could you point me to a brief documentation? (I do not want to take much 
of your time :D)

Cheers,
Amir


On 06/21/2010 07:40 PM, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Amir Pakdel said on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:43:32PM +0430:
>
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> For HP ProLiant Blades, you have an Onboard Administrator (OA) attached
> to the blade chassis and able to report everything related to the whole
> chassis + blade. It has its own MAC addree and is separated from the
> blades. It also allows you to connect in a SSO mode to each Blade's iLO,
> which allows you to manage each system. Again iLOs are separated from
> the Blade, have their own MAC address.
>
> There is normally no relationship between the host and the iLO, except
> if you load an additional driver on your OS in order to allow some
> communication between the 2.
>
> Let me know if you need more details.
> Bruno.
>