Today its about access, and sometimes that means you need to relax a some security settings to get the job done. Securing your environment is for another post. Just that you should be aware that if it is exposed on an untrusted network, someone can snoop your password and username. This does not mean that you can not use it. In our test server we were upgrading SSH refused to work.
Don’t worry even if you are not a command line ninja you can handle these simple instructions.įirst thing we need to do is enable SSH / Telnet. We need to use the command line to perform these updates. So what are you to do if you have the right voodoo of Internet Explorer, Windows, and Java? Well luckily we do not needa browser to perform a firmware update.
Luckily some of these issues are fixed by HP with firmware updates, but a broken web interface that will not let you upload a firmware image is less than helpful… it is down right annoying. ILO is not without its faults, however, buggy firmware, Internet explorer dependency, Java compatability and so on make it a bit cumbersome to use in today’s mixed OS environments. This tool works wonderful for remotely accessing your system, bios, post screens, remote media and troubleshooting. Most HP Servers ship with an out-of-band management tool called iLO (Integrated Lights Out).
