On 2024-08-27 10:55, Zbigniew Koziol via talk wrote:
Greetings to all who may be remember me (it is already around 16 years as I left Canada). To others - too :)
I have bought that machine for computer simulations in physics, not having before experience with similar ones.
The first start and installing mint there went easy. My guess is that I shut it down improperly (I do not remember details).
Now, it is my guess, the machine is in standby mode (when power is connected). The unfortunate thing is that I did not do any initial BIOS configuration and I did not care to write down iLO IP address.
The lights on both power suppliers are off. The light on the front is amber. Two lights near iLO cable are green, one solid, the second is blinking, suggesting that iLO works properly.
You should be able to press the amber switch and it should just power up.
By reading the internet and documentation I found out that sometime people have similar problems. What is advised is resetting the beast to factory setting. That apparently can be done by 3 methods: 1) with some magic of removing/swapping power suppliers, 2) by changing S6 to ON on system maintenance switch and 3) by removing CMOS battery.
I did try the methods 1) and 2). In case of method 3) - I do not know how to remove battery. It does not look the same as it is drawn in the original technical documentation. Do not remove the battery. if you remove the cmos battery the system will lose things like its serial number. Its is not fatal but a pain in the ass.
Now, I thought I will try to use iLO. First, I need its IP address. Yes, I know basics of using ping, nmap, etc. However, I have at home a simple Huawey router. It allows to have netmask of the type 255.255.255.0, only, hence scanning the entire possible IP range is in practice, impossible.
It happened that that I discovered an option on my desktop computer to configure the network connection as "shared to other computers". Hence, connected to cable directly to iLO and found out that my IP is now 10.42.0.1. Does that mean that this is IP of iLO? That would be a something, however, the problem does not end there.
How to connect to iLO anyway? My Huawey router does not allow me to change a configuraion in such a way that 10.42.0.1 could be an address of a connected device: it wants 10.42.0.1 to be the gateway address.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
In general your life would be much easier if you first get the system booting in the normal way using a monitor and keyboard. Once you have your OS running then you can use ipmitool, hponcfg or hpilo_cli and at that point you can configure your iLO interface so that you can get at it later. If the system was sold used it is quite likely that it has had the iLO interface already configured. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || home: (905)513-7688 alvin@netvel.net ||