Many people were looking how to change the Bios password remotely. Please read my previous post about the Bios settings. To set Bios password you will need Key scan codes the information about them is also given in my previous post. Continue reading ‘HP: Remotely change Bios password with a script’
Archive for the 'HP' Category
HP introduces new Proliant BL260c G5 and DL120 G5 srvers for Midsize Businesses. Read more…
HP today announced technologies that integrate virtualization capabilities into the HP ProLiant server platform, allowing customers to rapidly and simply virtualize their server environments.
Called HP ProLiant iVirtualization, these technologies allow businesses of all sizes to lower costs, improve productivity and better allocate resources across their server infrastructures.
HP has joined with the industry’s largest virtualization vendors – VMware, Citrix and Microsoft – to develop these technologies, which integrate virtualization with a broad range of HP ProLiant and BladeSystem platforms. Read more…
The HP ProLiant DL785 G5, the newest and most expandable additon to the award winning HP ProLiant line, is an 8-socket x86 server, supporting up to 8 AMD Opteron Quad Core processors, 256GB of memory and 11 PCI-e I/O slots. Read more…
If you ever need to upgrade Lights-Out(iLO) firmware on all servers in your organization then look for tool called HP Lights-Out Directories Migration Utility. This tool is a part of hp Directories Support tool. It is difficult to find it on HP web-pages so you can download it from here. This is version 2.01 (sp31581.exe)
The Directories Migration utility can do more than upgrade firmware. It is used to integrate iLO into Active Directory and use AD groups for authentication. Also it can configure iLO settings.
I am using HP Integrated lights out(ILO) management a lot to managed Proliant servers. It always worked fine, but only with Windows OS. If I was trying to connect to servers ILO that is running Unix/Linux/VMware I was not seeing the server name. The ILO page was displaying ‘host is unnamed’.
Finaly I’ve found what was missing.
I have no problems pinging the host by its name. But when I’ve tried to resolve the name from IP, I found the problem. The name was not resolved and that was pointing that there is no PTR record. After creating the PTR record the name also started appearing in ILO. The same problem also effects HP System Insight Manager(SIM).
Note: The name will not appear instantly after you create PTR record.
New version of HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 (SIM 5.2) is available for download.
HP today introduced a new family of entry-level disk arrays with enterprise-class features that can help customers more effectively centralize storage to lower costs, increase administrator efficiency and reduce business downtime. (Read more)
Technical details of StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 2000 (MSA2000)
01
Feb
HP: Negative pings ???
I’ve ran into interesting problem today wile configuring HP SIM. I found out that the network is not stable. So I started troubleshooting by pinging servers and this is what I’ve got.
I have negative pings, which does not make sense. So the first thing that popped to my mind was firmware. After upgrading NIC firmware the problem disappeared.
The server is HP Proliant BL25p G2 and NIC is Broadcom NC737i
