This depends slightly on the operating systems you’re running on the servers, but in general, it is possible to obtain alerts from HP ProLiant servers and Smart Array RAID controllers. The full driver and software support listing for your DL380 G5 systems is listed here. SNMP and a monitoring solution is the best approach… But … Read more
For Ubuntu there is no available firmware installer. Select the one for RedHat. You will get an .scexe file, which you can unpack: $ chmod 740 CP022551.scexe $ ./CP022551.scexe –unpack=/tmp/iLO3 $ ls -l /tmp/iLO3 CP022551.xml flash_ilo3 ilo3_180.bin README.TXT There you have it: a ilo3_180.bin which you can upload with your iLO 3 web interface.
Opterons and Nelahem (55xx and later) Xeons have a NUMA architecture – each socket has its own memory bus and there is a link between the sockets. This link is called Hypertransport on Opteron systems and Quickpath on Xeons. The G5 predates Nelahem and still uses the older Front Side Bus, which is not a … Read more
While the other answer here beings up some points, your specific issues are due to platform limitations and OS configuration: You’re throughput-limited by the use of consumer SATA SSDs on an HP Smart Array P410 RAID controller. SATA disks run at 3.0Gbps (3G) on these controllers rather than 6.0Gbps (6G). So that’s a barrier that … Read more
My favorite example: This can be run from the shell or within the tool. hpacucli ctrl all show config (use hpacucli.exe for Windows) Or hpacucli ctrl all show config detail But, if you have the HP Management Agents installed anyway, you should have realtime monitoring of RAID status pushing back to email alerts or an … Read more
SATA2 disks should be compatible with the Smart Array P400i that comes with your server (or any other SAS controller, for the matter), although probably not with stellar performance as others have noted. But keep in mind that not all SATA disks are suitable for use with RAID because of the infamous Time-Limited Error Recovery … Read more
The HP Smart Array P410 is a fine controller, but you will get poor performance out of it if you don’t have the battery-backed or flash-backed cache units installed. The cache makes a tremendous difference in that writes are buffered by the cache memory before being committed to disk. You get the write confirmation to … Read more
I’ve configured serial consoles in the past, and have found them particularly useful for network gear. In the case of network gear. sometimes a serial console is the only way to remotely manage the appliance. am curious as to the benefits of serial consoles versus the ILO/ILOM/DRAC technologies available on modern servers. I’m having this … Read more
The key to entering the ILO BIOS setup utility on current-firmware G6 or G7 ProLiants is to follow the prompts very carefully and get the timing just right… Note: You can also configure the ILO directly from the HP SmartStart DVD included with the system. Also, there’s a way to script the ILO and BIOS … Read more
Assuming you’re on a recent firmware revision for the DL320 G6 server. You’re going to have to pay close attention to the POST messages in order to catch the RAID controller’s ORCA utility prompt. The “Sea of Sensors” POST routine takes awhile from the first screen prompt (on a warm-boot) to step through RAM checks … Read more