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How to enable and use the serial terminal of a HP Microserver Gen9?

The ILO port on the HP server by default asks for an IP via DHCP. So you just need to plug it into a network that has a DHCP server running. It will announce itself with a host name like ILOCZ12345678 ...
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Discover iLO address for server on network

Look for ports unique to ILO, like 17988: nmap -sT -p 17988 iprange... for example: nmap -sT -p 17988 --open 192.168.20.0/24
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HP ProLiant Shared ILO port disadvantages?

Another disadvantage (don't know if this applies to all iLO versions and all Proliant models) is that when iLO is on shared port, it cannot communicate with host computer. So server can't even ping ...
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iLO 3 Firmware Update (HP Proliant DL380 G7)

For convenience, the latest versions of the firmware are being tracked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integrated_Lights-Out, and independently by http://pingtool.org/latest-hp-ilo-firmwares/. At ...
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iLO default username always Administrator?

Default is burned in per server (id is always Administrator, but the password is different). You can press F8 during POST to enter the ILO configuration screen and reset it there.
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Update all firmware on HP DL380 G5 server

The firmware for that server is located on HP's website. Here's where to get it. Don't assume that a system this old has any recent firmware updates. Here's your BIOS download. Here's your ILO ...
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Anyway to turn off the health LED on a DL360 g9?

Unfortunately there is no way to turn off the health LED. Since you are planning to run it till it dies, I can only think of the the tape idea or paint the led to green or add a green tint sticker :D
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How to get ILO IP address without a monitor?

Yet another solution, that does not depend on having (proprietary) tools from HP installed on your system, is to use the vendor-neutral ipmi utilities. You can install the package called ipmitool on ...
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What is the NAND used for in the HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8?

There is actually a procedure described by HP to correct the problem with the embedded NAND Flash. We had the same problem and the procedure described in the advisory has corrected the error. After ...
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How to reset the password for an HP iLO5 account via CLI?

cd into the user to set its password. </map1/accounts1/test>hpiLO-> set password=NewPassw0rd status=0 status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED Tue Aug 9 12:44:05 2022 User information modified ...
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HP Proliant DL160 G5 - how to remove ILO License

You don't really need to remove the ILO license. Nobody is going to care, and HP isn't interested in auditing the license status of such an old server. But if you can open an SSH connection to the ...
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HP Blade System 7000 - Fans About to Take Off

I'd suggest calling an HP technician to come onsite and look at this. You're working with such scant details, that it's nearly impossible to provide good information to you. First: Did you look at ...
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DL380 G6 iLO2: Upgrade SSL connection

First of all: the issue is not related to SHA-1. The issue is that iLO2 doesn't support TLS >1.0, and TLS 1.0 has been disabled in Chrome. I don't think this one can be solved without intervention ...
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How to get ILO IP address without a monitor?

Assuming your Linux system is functioning, you can install the iLO online configuration utility (hponcfg). You can use it to get the iLO's configuration or reconfigure it. The configuration is in XML ...
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Obtaining drive/storage health via HP iLo 4 CLI

It doesn't look like you can do it via so called SMASH CLP (ILO4 CLI) as there is no /system1/drives* target, but you can do it via RIBCL XML. You can download archive with samples of RIBCL scripts ...
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What is the NAND used for in the HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8?

There isn't too much you can do about this. Please run the normal firmware updates on the host either via Intelligent Provisioning or the HP SPP bootable DVD. But since Gen8 systems are end-of-life, ...
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HP ProLiant Shared ILO port do not answer to host

This doesn't work. It's one of the downsides to using a shared ILO port.
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How to disable ipmi over lan using ipmitool

Here is another way to disable lan channel : ipmitool lan set 1 access off
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iLO 3 Firmware Update (HP Proliant DL380 G7)

While struggling with the same problems on HP's website I too found it incredibly difficult to find a specific .bin version. I was going to create a library of bin files, but someone else beat me too ...
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How to get ILO IP address without a monitor?

I can think of two options: check your dhcp server logs, you might have the ilo nic on dhcp; try scanning your network with nmap -n -P0 -sS -p 17988 -oG - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx ...
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How to access both server and ILO with a single link?

Ok, thanks for the update, you've got iLO version 4, which does indeed allow you to do what you want. You need to go into your iLO settings and select the 'Network' tab on the left, then select '...
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What is the NAND used for in the HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8?

The NAND is used for: Active Health System - User's Guide page 79 Intelligent Provisioning - User's Guide page 80 Possibly Insight Diagnostics.
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Does the HP DL20 gen10 support video redirection at all times with an advanced iLO license

I shouldn't give this advice... The ILO standard will show the POST and BIOS video output up until the IOS begins to boot. You need the ILO license to see more. You can obtain an ILO trial license ...
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iLO 3 Firmware Update (HP Proliant DL380 G7)

Latest firmware can be found here: http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c05249760 If you have a firmware prior to 1.20 version you have to upgrade to 1.20 first: https://...
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Unable to connect to iLO2 Remote-Console be it either IE ActiveX or JVM

The ports needed are 443 to login to the iLO plus 17990 and 80. At least it did the same nothing i.e. did not work when port 80 was not forwarded and then .NET console worked with port 80 forwarded. ...
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HP ProLiant DL360 G6 won't boot

Please examine the ILO log and the IML log. The server will tell you exactly what's wrong. But really, I wonder if you may have caused another issue while swapping components looking for a solution. ...
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HP ProLiant Shared ILO port disadvantages?

There is another issue as well, in the current iLO 4 (version 2.40 Dec 02 2015) the "Shared Network Port currently does not support IPv6".
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Configuring HP iLO for OpenLDAP

Standard OpenLDAP overlays do include support for "memberOf", even enabled by default in recent distributions. iLO 4 firmware v2.54 download site (hpe.com) added support for OpenLDAP, including using ...
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ProLiant DL360p Gen8 and ProLiant DL360p Gen9 and ProLiant DL360p Gen7 servers vulnerability of ILO

IPMI is an out of band management technology. It is used to have access to the server remotely without having an OS installed or even when the server is powered off but plugged on the power. Via IPMI ...
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HP ML10v2 - Power Failure - Critical Temperature

This is a situation where you should contact your vendor. If this is a new system, it makes sense to call whoever sold you the system or you have the option of contacting HP support. Feel free to ...
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