Document Outline

• HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 User Guide
• Notice
• Contents
• Operational overview
  • Guide overview
  • New in this release of iLO 2
  • iLO 2 overview
    • Differences between iLO 2 and iLO
    • HP Insight Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack integration
    • Server management through IPMI version 2.0 compliant applications
    • WS-Management compatibility overview
  • iLO 2 browser interface overview
    • Supported browsers and client operating systems
    • Supported server operating system software
• iLO 2 setup
  • Quick setup
  • Preparing to setup iLO 2
  • Connecting to the network
  • Configuring the IP address
  • Logging in to iLO 2 for the first time
  • Setting up user accounts
    • Setting up iLO 2 using iLO 2 RBSU
    • Setting up iLO 2 using the browser-based option
  • Activating iLO 2 licensed features using a browser
  • Installing iLO 2 device drivers
    • Microsoft device driver support
    • Linux device driver support
    • Novell NetWare device driver support
• Configuring iLO 2
  • iLO 2 configuration overview
  • Upgrading iLO 2 firmware
    • Upgrading iLO 2 using a browser
    • Updating the firmware using the maintenance CD
    • Recovering from a failed iLO 2 firmware update
    • Downgrading the iLO 2 firmware
  • Licensing
  • User administration
    • Adding a new user
    • Viewing or modifying an existing user's settings
    • Deleting a user
    • Group administration
  • Configuring iLO 2 access
    • Services options
      • Terminal Services Passthrough option
        • Terminal Services client requirements
          • Windows RDP passthrough service
          • Terminal Services pass-through installation
      • Enabling the Terminal Services Passthrough option
        • Terminal Services warning message
        • Terminal Services Passthrough option display
      • Remote Console and Terminal Services clients
      • Terminal Services troubleshooting
    • Access options
    • iLO 2 Remote Console and Remote Serial Console access
  • Security
    • General security guidelines
      • Password guidelines
      • Securing RBSU
      • iLO 2 Security Override Switch administration
    • Trusted Platform Module support
    • User accounts and access
      • Privileges
      • Login security
    • SSH key administration
    • SSL certificate administration
    • Two-factor authentication
      • Setting up two-factor authentication for the first time
      • Setting up a user for two-factor authentication
      • Two-factor authentication login
      • Using two-factor authentication with directory authentication
    • Directory settings
      • Configuring directory settings
      • Directory tests
    • Encryption
      • Encryption settings
      • Connecting to the iLO 2 using AES/3DES encryption
    • HP SIM single sign-on (SSO)
      • Setting up iLO 2 for HP SIM SSO
      • Adding HP SIM trusted servers
      • Setting up HP SIM SSO
    • Remote Console Computer Lock
  • Network
    • Network Settings
      • iLO 2 subsystem name limitations
      • iLO 2 Shared Network Port
        • iLO 2 Shared Management Port features and restrictions
        • Enabling the iLO 2 Shared Network Port feature
          • Enabling the iLO 2 Shared Network Port feature through iLO 2 RBSU
          • Enabling the iLO 2 Shared Network Port feature through the web interface
        • Re-enabling the dedicated iLO 2 management port
    • DHCP/DNS Settings
  • SNMP/Insight Manager settings
    • Enabling SNMP alerts
    • SNMP generated trap definitions
    • Configuring Insight Manager integration
  • ProLiant BL p-Class configuration
    • ProLiant BL p-Class user requirements
    • Static IP bay configuration
      • Configuring a ProLiant BL p-Class blade enclosure
      • Configuring static IP bay settings
      • ProLiant BL p-Class standard configuration parameters
      • ProLiant BL p-Class advanced configuration parameters
      • Enabling iLO 2 IP address assignment
    • HP BladeSystem setup
      • iLO 2 configuration screen
      • Verify Server RAID Configuration screen
      • Connect Virtual Media screen
      • Install Software screen
    • iLO 2 diagnostic port configuration parameters
• Using iLO 2
  • System status and status summary information
    • System Information Summary
      • Fans
      • Temperatures
      • Power
      • Processors
      • Memory
      • NIC
    • iLO 2 Log
    • IML
    • Diagnostics
    • Insight Agents
  • iLO 2 Remote Console
    • Remote Console overview and licensing options
    • Remote Console settings
      • Remote console hot keys
      • Supported hot keys
      • Hot keys and international keyboards
      • Hot keys and Virtual Serial Port
    • Integrated Remote Console Fullscreen
    • Integrated Remote Console option
      • Optimizing mouse performance for Remote Console or Integrated Remote Console
      • High Performance Mouse settings
    • Shared Remote Console
    • Using Console Capture
    • Using HP iLO Video Player
      • iLO Video Player user interface
      • iLO Video Player controls
    • Acquiring the Remote Console
    • Remote Console
      • Remote Console features and controls
      • Recommended client settings
      • Recommended server settings
        • Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 settings
        • Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux server settings
    • Text-based remote console overview
      • Text-based console during POST
      • Text-based console after POST
        • Using iLO Text Console
        • Customizing iLO 2 Text Console
        • Using a Linux session
      • Virtual serial port and remote serial console
        • Remote Serial Console
          • Configuring Remote Serial Console
          • Linux configuration example
        • Virtual Serial Port enhancements
        • Windows® EMS Console
          • Virtual serial port raw mode
          • Using a remote Windows Kernel Debugger
  • Virtual media
    • Using iLO 2 Virtual Media devices
      • Virtual Media and Windows 7
      • iLO 2 Virtual Floppy/USBKey
        • Virtual Floppy/USB Key operating systems notes
        • Operating system USB support
        • Mounting USB Virtual Floppy/USBKey in NetWare 6.5
        • Mounting USB Virtual Media/USBKey in Linux
        • Changing diskettes
      • iLO 2 Virtual CD/DVD-ROM
        • Virtual Media CD/DVD-ROM operating system notes
        • Mounting USB Virtual Media CD/DVD-ROM in Linux
      • Creating iLO 2 disk image files
    • Virtual folder
    • Virtual folder operating system notes
  • Power management
    • Server power settings
    • Server power data
    • Processor states
    • Power efficiency
    • Graceful shutdown
  • ProLiant BL p-Class Advanced management
    • Rack View
      • Blade configuration and information
      • Enclosure information
      • Power enclosure information
      • Network component information
    • iLO 2 control of ProLiant BL p-Class server LEDs
      • Server POST tracking
      • Insufficient power notification
    • ProLiant BL p-Class alert forwarding
  • ProLiant BladeSystem HP Onboard Administrator
    • iLO 2 BL c-Class tab
    • Enclosure bay IP addressing
    • Dynamic power capping for server blades
    • iLO 2 Virtual Fan
    • iLO option
    • Web Administration
    • BL p-Class and BL c-Class features
• Directory services
  • Overview of directory integration
  • Benefits of directory integration
  • Advantages and disadvantages of schema-free directories and HP schema directory
    • Schema-free directory integration
    • HP schema directory integration
  • Setup for Schema-free directory integration
    • Active Directory preparation
      • Introduction to certificate services
      • Installing certificate services
      • Verifying certificate services
      • Configuring Automatic Certificate Request
    • Schema-free browser-based setup
    • Schema-free scripted setup
    • Schema-free HPLOMIG-based setup
    • Schema-free setup options
    • Schema-free nested groups
  • Setting up HP schema directory integration
    • Features supported by HP schema directory integration
    • Setting up directory services
    • Schema documentation
    • Directory services support
    • Schema required software
    • Schema installer
      • Schema Preview
      • Setup
      • Results
    • Management snap-in installer
    • Directory services for Active Directory
      • Active Directory installation prerequisites
      • Installing Active Directory on Windows Server 2008
      • Directory services preparation for Active Directory
      • Snap-in installation and initialization for Active Directory
      • Example: Creating and configuring directory objects for use with iLO 2 in Active Directory
      • Directory services objects
        • Active Directory snap-ins
          • HP Devices
          • Members
        • Active Directory role restrictions
          • Time restrictions
          • Enforced client IP address or DNS name access
      • Active Directory Lights-Out management
    • Directory services for eDirectory
      • eDirectory installation prerequisites
      • Snap-in installation and initialization for eDirectory
      • Example: Creating and configuring directory objects for use with LOM devices in eDirectory
      • Directory Services objects for eDirectory
        • Role managed devices
        • Members
      • eDirectory Role Restrictions
        • Time restrictions
        • Enforced client IP address or DNS name access
      • eDirectory Lights-Out Management
    • User login using directory services
• Directory-enabled remote management
  • Introduction to directory-enabled remote management
  • Creating roles to follow organizational structure
    • Using existing groups
    • Using multiple roles
  • How directory login restrictions are enforced
    • Restricting roles
      • Role time restrictions
      • Role address restrictions
    • User restrictions
      • User address restrictions
        • IP address range restrictions
        • IP address and subnet mask restrictions
        • DNS-based restrictions
      • How user time restrictions are enforced
    • Creating multiple restrictions and roles
  • Using bulk import tools
• HPQLOMIG directory migration utility
  • Introduction to HPQLOMIG utility
  • Compatibility
  • HP Lights-Out directory package
  • Using HPQLOMIG
    • Finding management processors
    • Upgrading firmware on management processors
    • Selecting a directory access method
    • Naming management processors
    • Configuring directories when HP Extended schema is selected
    • Configuring directories when schema-free integration is selected
    • Setting up management processors for directories
• HP Systems Insight Manager integration
  • Integrating iLO 2 with HP SIM
  • HP SIM functional overview
  • Establishing SSO with HP SIM
  • HP SIM identification and association
    • HP SIM status
    • HP SIM links
    • HP SIM systems lists
  • Receiving SNMP alerts in HP SIM
  • HP SIM port matching
  • Reviewing Advanced Pack license information in HP SIM
• Troubleshooting iLO 2
  • iLO 2 POST LED indicators
  • Event log entries
  • Hardware and software link-related issues
  • JVM support
  • Login issues
    • Login name and password not accepted
    • Directory user premature logout
    • iLO 2 Management Port not accessible by name
    • iLO 2 RBSU unavailable after iLO 2 and server reset
    • Inability to access the login page
    • Inability to access iLO 2 using telnet
    • Inability to access virtual media or graphical remote console
    • Inability to connect to iLO 2 after changing network settings
    • Inability to connect to the iLO 2 Diagnostic Port
    • Inability to connect to the iLO 2 processor through the NIC
    • Inability to log in to iLO 2 after installing the iLO 2 certificate
    • Firewall issues
    • Proxy server issues
    • Two-factor authentication error
  • Troubleshooting alert and trap problems
    • Inability to receive HP SIM alarms (SNMP traps) from iLO 2
    • iLO 2 Security Override switch
    • Authentication code error message
  • Troubleshooting directory problems
    • Domain/name format login issues
    • ActiveX controls are enabled and I see a prompt but the domain/name login format does not work
    • User contexts do not appear to work
    • Directory user does not logout after the directory timeout has expires
  • Troubleshooting Remote Console problems
    • Remote Console applet has a red X when running Linux client browser
    • Inability to navigate the single cursor of the Remote Console to corners of the Remote Console window
    • Remote Console no longer opens on the existing browser session
    • Remote console text window not updating properly
    • Remote Console turns gray or black
    • Remote Serial Console troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting Integrated Remote Console problems
    • Internet Explorer 7 and a flickering remote console screen
    • Configuring Apache to accept exported capture buffers
    • No console replay while server is powered down
    • Skipping information during boot and fault buffer playback
    • Out of Memory error starting Integrated Remote Console
    • Session leader does not receive connection request when IRC is in replay mode
    • Keyboard LED does not display correctly
    • Inactive IRC
    • IRC Failed to connect to server error message
    • IRC toolbar icons do not update
    • GNOME interface does not lock
    • Repeating keys on the Remote Console
    • Remote Console playback does not work when the host server is powered down
  • Troubleshooting SSH and Telnet problems
    • Initial PuTTY input slow
    • PuTTY client unresponsive with Shared Network Port
    • SSH text support from a Remote Console session
  • Troubleshooting terminal services problems
    • Terminal Services button is not working
    • Terminal Services proxy stops responding
  • Troubleshooting video and monitor problems
    • General guidelines
    • Telnet displays incorrectly in DOS®
    • Video applications not displaying in the Remote Console
    • User interface is not displaying correctly
  • Troubleshooting Virtual Media problems
    • Virtual Media applet has a red X and will not display
    • Virtual Floppy media applet is unresponsive
  • Troubleshooting iLO Video Player problems
    • Video capture file does not play
    • Video capture file plays erratically
  • Troubleshooting Remote Text Console problems
    • Viewing the Linux installer in the text console
    • Passing data through an SSH terminal
  • Troubleshooting miscellaneous problems
    • Cookie sharing between browser instances and iLO 2
      • Shared instances
      • Cookie order behavior
      • Displaying the current session cookie
      • Preventing cookie-related user issues
    • Inability to access ActiveX downloads
    • Inability to get SNMP information from HP SIM
    • Incorrect time or date of the entries in the event log
    • Inability to upgrade iLO 2 firmware
      • Diagnostic steps
    • iLO 2 network flash recovery
    • Recovering from a bad iLO 2 flash image using network flash recovery
    • Recovering from a bad iLO 2 flash image using the HP Smart Update Firmware DVD
    • iLO 2 does not respond to SSL requests
    • Testing SSL
    • Resetting iLO 2
    • Server name still present after ERASE utility is executed
    • Troubleshooting a remote host
• Directory services schema
  • HP Management Core LDAP OID classes and attributes
    • Core classes
    • Core attributes
    • Core class definitions
      • hpqTarget
      • hpqRole
      • hpqPolicy
    • Core attribute definitions
      • hpqPolicyDN
      • hpqRoleMembership
      • hpqTargetMembership
      • hpqRoleIPRestrictionDefault
      • hpqRoleIPRestrictions
      • hpqRoleTimeRestriction
  • Lights-Out Management specific LDAP OID classes and attributes
    • Lights-Out Management classes
    • Lights-Out Management attributes
    • Lights-Out Management class definitions
      • hpqLOMv100
    • Lights-Out Management attribute definitions
      • hpqLOMRightLogin
      • hpqLOMRightRemoteConsole
      • hpqLOMRightVirtualMedia
      • hpqLOMRightServerReset
      • hpqLOMRightLocalUserAdmin
      • hpqLOMRightConfigureSettings
• Technical support
  • Support information
  • HP contact information
  • Before you contact HP
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Index