More HP sauce on ESXi 5.0
On my first post about HP ESXi 5.0 customized image I discussed about the new esxcli namespaces added by HP. But those tools aren’t the only ones included.
If you list the software bundles and filter the output to display only the included by HP will notice an hponcfg package.
~ # esxcli software vib list |grep Hewlett char-hpcru 5.0.0.8-1OEM.500.0.0.434156 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2011-05-24 char-hpilo 500.9.0.0.8-1OEM.500.0.0.434156 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2011-05-24 hp-smx-provider 500.02.10.13.44-434156 Hewlett-Packard VMwareAccepted 2011-05-24 hpbootcfg 01-00.10 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2011-05-24 hponcfg 03-02.04 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2011-05-24 ~ #
Hponcfg, also included on ProLiant Support Pack for Linux, is a tool that enable a System Administrator to manage the iLO of a ProLiant server from the operative system.
~ # esxcli software vib get -n hponcfg Hewlett-Packard_bootbank_hponcfg_03-02.04 Name: hponcfg Version: 03-02.04 Type: bootbank Vendor: Hewlett-Packard Acceptance Level: PartnerSupported Summary: HP ProLiant Lights-Out Configuration Utility for ESXi Description: HP ProLiant Lights-Out Configuration Utility for ESXi Release Date: 2011-08-09 Depends: Conflicts: Replaces: Provides: Maintenance Mode Required: False Hardware Platforms Required: HP, Hewlett-Packard Company, Hewlett-Packard, hp Live Install Allowed: False Live Remove Allowed: False Stateless Ready: True Overlay: False Tags: Payloads: hponcfg ~ #
The tool is located at /opt/hp/tools.
/opt/hp/tools # ls hpbootcfg hpbootcfg_esxcli hponcfg /opt/hp/tools #
Launch the utility without arguments and you will get the usage and it will also display current firmware version of the iLO.
/opt/hp/tools # ./hponcfg HP Lights-Out Online Configuration utility Version 3.2-4 (c) Hewlett-Packard Company, 2011 Firmware Revision = 1.26 Device type = iLO 3 Driver name = hpilo USAGE: hponcfg -? hponcfg -h hponcfg -m minFw hponcfg -r [-m minFw ] hponcfg [-a] -w filename [-m minFw] hponcfg -g [-m minFw] hponcfg -f filename [-l filename] [-s namevaluepair] [-v] [-m minFw] hponcfg -i [-l filename] [-s namevaluepair] [-v] [-m minFw] -h, --help Display this message -? Display this message -r, --reset Reset the Management Processor to factory defaults -f, --file Get/Set Management Processor configuration from "filename" -i, --input Get/Set Management Processor configuration from the XML input received through the standard input stream. -w, --writeconfig Write the Management Processor configuration to "filename" -a, --all Capture complete Management Processor configuration to the file. This should be used along with '-w' option -l, --log Log replies to "filename" -v, --xmlverbose Display all the responses from Management Processor -s, --substitute Substitute variables present in input config file with values specified in "namevaluepairs" -g, --get_hostinfo Get the Host information -m, --minfwlevel Minimum firmware level /opt/hp/tools #
As a non intrusive example you can use -g switch to get the server info.
/opt/hp/tools # ./hponcfg -g HP Lights-Out Online Configuration utility Version 3.2-4 (c) Hewlett-Packard Company, 2011 Firmware Revision = 1.26 Device type = iLO 3 Driver name = hpilo Host Information: Server Name: esxi01.hp.local Server Number: /opt/hp/tools #
I’ll let you to investigate the rest of the options carefully.
Juanma.
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This is very good info. Glad to have someone with HP knowledge to share the experience.
I do have 1 question(I am a newbie ESXi 5). How do you do ESXi update if you have HP’s version of ESXi and you don’t have Update Manager(cause you are running the vCenter Server Appliance :().
To update your ESXi 5.0 boxes in that scenario you should setup a basic Windows VM to run Update Manager. That Windows VM will talk to vCenter appliance.
Hi,
i have the problem that when I restart the management agents, the hp parts are seemingly not restarted, and the number of sensors detected falls from 260 to 197.
I found nothing on the internet so far that helped me. Do you know how I can manually restart those hp agents without rebooting the host, or even better how I can include them in “Restart Management Agents”? Thank you