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ILO is a management port on HP servers that allow you to power nodes on and off, obtain sensor information, and other useful management tasks. You can save a lot of time when trying to configure the ILO management port on HP cluster nodes by scripting the ILO configuration with HP tools.
At a high level, to automatically configure ILO you feed the HP hponcfg.exe tool XML fragments which automatically configure ILO to your specifications.
I typically like the ILO management port to be configured to use DHCP, set the ILO hostname to be
First, download the hponcfg.exe tool from the HP website and put it on a share accessible to the compute nodes.
The first item it to set all compute nodes to have the same ILO name and password. In this example, I will just set them to Administrator/Administrator ( obviously you will want to change that!)
To reset the password create a file named reset_pass.xml on a share accessible from the compute nodes with the following contents:
<LOGIN USER_LOGIN="Administrator" PASSWORD="Administrator">
<USER_INFO MODE="write">
<MOD_USER USER_LOGIN="Administrator">
<PASSWORD value="Administrator"/>
</MOD_USER>
</USER_INFO>
</LOGIN>
</RIBCL>
Then run this command to execute the password reset on all nodes, via clusrun or other mechanism ( psexec if you are not on HPC Server 2008):
Next, lets reset the ILO hostname to
echo ^<RIBCL VERSION="2.1"^> >> network.xml > network.xml
echo ^<LOGIN USER_LOGIN="Administrator" PASSWORD="Administrator"^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_INFO MODE="write"^> >> network.xml
echo ^<MOD_DIR_CONFIG^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_AUTHENTICATION_ENABLED VALUE = "N"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_LOCAL_USER_ACCT VALUE = "Y"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_SERVER_ADDRESS VALUE = ""/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_SERVER_PORT VALUE = "636"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_OBJECT_DN VALUE = ""/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_OBJECT_PASSWORD VALUE = ""/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_USER_CONTEXT_1 VALUE = ""/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_USER_CONTEXT_2 VALUE = ""/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DIR_USER_CONTEXT_3 VALUE = ""/^> >> network.xml
echo ^</MOD_DIR_CONFIG^> >> network.xml
echo ^</DIR_INFO^> >> network.xml
echo ^<RIB_INFO MODE="write"^> >> network.xml
echo ^<MOD_NETWORK_SETTINGS^> >> network.xml
echo ^<SPEED_AUTOSELECT VALUE = "Y"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<NIC_SPEED VALUE = "10"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<FULL_DUPLEX VALUE = "N"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DHCP_ENABLE VALUE = "Y"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DHCP_GATEWAY VALUE = "Y"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DHCP_DNS_SERVER VALUE = "Y"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DHCP_STATIC_ROUTE VALUE = "Y"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DHCP_WINS_SERVER VALUE = "Y"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<REG_WINS_SERVER VALUE = "Y"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DNS_NAME VALUE = "%HOSTNAME%"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<DOMAIN_NAME VALUE = "mydomainname.com"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<SEC_WINS_SERVER value = "0.0.0.0"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<STATIC_ROUTE_1 DEST = "0.0.0.0" GATEWAY = "0.0.0.0"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<STATIC_ROUTE_2 DEST = "0.0.0.0" GATEWAY = "0.0.0.0"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^<STATIC_ROUTE_3 DEST = "0.0.0.0" GATEWAY = "0.0.0.0"/^> >> network.xml
echo ^</MOD_NETWORK_SETTINGS^> >> network.xml
echo ^</RIB_INFO^> >> network.xml
echo ^</LOGIN^> >> network.xml
echo ^</RIBCL^> >> network.xml
hponcfg /f network.xml
Finally, lets enable SSH for ILO. Put the following contents in a file called ssh.xml, copy it to a share and run hponcfg /f ssh.xml via clusrun
<LOGIN USER_LOGIN="Administrator" PASSWORD="Password">
<RIB_INFO MODE="write">
<MOD_GLOBAL_SETTINGS>
<SSH_PORT value="22"/>
<SSH_STATUS value="Yes"/>
</MOD_GLOBAL_SETTINGS>
</RIB_INFO>
</LOGIN>
</RIBCL>
For more information, read the extensive HP documentation and examples.
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