Integrated Lights-Out, or iLO, is a proprietary embedded server management technology by Hewlett-Packard which provides out-of-band management facilities. The physical connection is an Ethernet port that can be found on most Proliant servers and microservers^[1] of the 300 and above series.

• Currently have – iLO 2 v2.27, HP ProLiant iLO 2 Management Controller Driver for Windows Server 2012 v1.15, HP Insight Management Agents for Windows Server x64 Editions v10.20.0.0 Have an out of warranty ML350 G6.
• There are a lot of articles out there that show you how to configure iLO (HP integrated Lights-Out) from the BiOS, but HP eventually learned this was difficult to do during the day when the server needed to be up and provided a Windows based tool. Here are the specs that I’m using for this tutorial: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard; iLO 2; HP.

iLO has similar functionality to the lights out management (LOM) technology offered by other vendors, for example Sun/Oracle's LOM port, Dell DRAC, the IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter and Cisco CIMC.

HP iLO 4 licenses and features. This table shows the features of HP iLO 4 that are available with the different licenses. Feature HP iLO Standard HP iLO Essentials. Pre-boot health summary (2) iLO Reboot switch (2) HP RESTful API (3) iLO Federation Discovery (3) iLO Federation Management (3) NS: NS.

Features[edit]

iLO makes it possible to perform activities on an HP server from a remote location. The iLO card has a separate network connection (and its own IP address) to which one can connect via HTTPS. Possible options are:

• Reset the server (in case the server doesn't respond anymore via the normal network card)
• Power-up the server (possible to do this from a remote location, even if the server is shut down)
• Remote system console (in some cases however an 'Advanced license' may be required for some of the utilities to work)
• Mount remote physical CD/DVD drive or image
• Access the server's Integrated Management Log (IML)
• Can be manipulated remotely through XML-based Remote Insight Board Command Language (RIBCL)
• Full command-line interface support through RS-232 port (shared with system), though the inability to enter function keys prevents certain operations

iLO provides some other utilities like virtual media (CD, floppy), virtual power and a remote console. iLO is either embedded on the system board, or available as a PCI card.

Availability[edit]

iLO is embedded or available on some HP ProLiant and Integrity servers.

Hp Ilo 2 Evaluation License

Prior to iLO, Compaq created several other lights out management products. The original was the Remote Insight Board (RIB), which was available as an EISA or PCIexpansion card. RIB was replaced with RILOE (Remote Insight Light-Out Edition), which was only available for PCI. The original RILOE was replaced with RILOE II. HP stopped manufacturing RILOE II in 2006. The final firmware version for RILOE is 2.53(A) dated 9 Mar 2004 and for RILOE II is 1.21 dated 5 July 2006.

For some ProLiant 100 series servers there is a 'Lights Out 100' option, which has more limited functionality. The LO100 is a traditional IPMIBMC, and does not share hardware or firmware with iLO.

Hp Ilo 2 Firmware 2.29

There is also a version of iLO for HP Moonshot systems referred to as iLO Chassis Management which is often abbreviated as iLO CM. The Chassis Management version of iLO was derived from iLO 4.^[2] As of June 2018 the most recent Chassis Manager Firmware available is version 1.56 which was released as part of the Moonshot Component Pack 2018.02.0.^[3]

Versions[edit]

There have been multiple generations of iLO, each generation noted by a single digit number ('iLO 2'). Some generations of iLO are segmented into different editions, based on what features are licensed.^[4] iLO includes updatable firmware, for which HP periodically releases new versions.

Programming Interfaces[edit]

Several APIs exist for interacting with HP iLO:

• Perl: Net::ILO
• Python: python-hpilo
• Ruby: ILOrb
• Powershell: HPE Scripting Tools for Windows Powershell

See also[edit]

• Intel Active Management Technology (iAMT)

References[edit]

Hp Ilo 2 License Plate

1. ^'HPE ProLiant MicroServer Generation 8 (Gen8)'. Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 23 October 2017. Archived from the original(pdf) on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
2. ^http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/docs/enterprise/servers/moonshot/webhelp/content/s_The_difference_between_iLO_CM_and_HP_iLO_201303191456.html
3. ^https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=a00044906en_us
4. ^'HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) features comparison'. HP ProLiant Servers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 26 April 2012. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
5. ^New iLO 5 for ProLiant Gen10 demo on YouTube

• Remote management, Integrated Lights-Out products at hp.com

External links[edit]

Hp Ilo 2 Licence