I have three HP servers on my domain.
One of them is tying up one of my IP's for an ILO management page but I do not have any network cabling connected to the ILO port on any of these servers.
How can I find out which machine this is without logging in to the I-lo page? I do not have credentials because the former admin did not provide them to me unless someone knows a default.
I need to find the server so I can do a reinstall of Insight and hopefully ILO. Or just reset the password so I can make use of ILO pages.
What I do not understand is how it is holding a different IP than the server which it is running from when only one network connection is provided. Does ILO install a NAT layer or something on the server?
Best Answer
Are you suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure about that? ILOs don't magically grab IP leases out of thin air with no physical connection. They're cool technology, but they're not voodoo.
You should be able to see the MAC address of the network interface that has acquired the lease. From there it should be trivial to look at the MACs of the ILOs in your three servers and see which has a lease. You could also just find the one that someone accidentally plugged in, since they'd have to be plugged in to get a lease.
There is usually a sticker on the side of the server that has the ILO's MAC and default user/password. You can also usually reset this by going into the ILO BIOS during boot. These things are outlined in more detail in the manual, you should read it.