I suppose I am 99.99% sure it cannot be done since you need either ILO IP or DNS name to connect, but I'm hoping to be proven wrong.
Is there a trick perhaps to enable it via RIBCL and cpqlocfg.exe?
Can you enable the ILO NIC on HP servers remotely
hpilo
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Best Answer
Without more details about your scenario, here's some thoughts. You need to talk to something, somehow.
Out of the box, the iLO might be enabled and on DHCP (or static IP), so if you have the physical tag, you can get there. If you know that it's been configured and turned off, and there's no OS, you might have a couple of options :
Remote KVM, assuming your infrastructure has it.
PXE booting might be enabled on the machine, in which case you could boot something that has the HP tools in it, like a small Linux, or maybe even SmartStart.