hphp-proliantiloipmiwindows
How can I check if a iLO-Board is installed on a Windowsmachine?
I would like to do it via a script (python prefered).
I thought about checking the connectionport. E.g.: If the iLO is connected via PCI, I can scan the PCI slots. But I couldn't find information about where it is connected.
Do you have any other ideas?
Thank you
As you say, the HSI (Hardware Support Information?) Tag refers to the machine itself, and the MP (Management Processor) Tag the iLO.
xmldata?item=CpqKey will return licensing information such as advanced license key, install date etc. As far as I know these are the only two documented XML queries and I suspect by virtue of the name (cpq - compaq?), that they are a legacy item in the iLOs.
As far as network discovery, many scripts are written to see if they get a valid result from the URLs above - if not, then it is not an iLO as far as the script it concerned.
One such example for iLO discovery is located at http://blog.nachotech.com/?p=63 and uses a BASH script. I've written powershell scripts that do audits of iLO devices and they too scrape data from the xml URL.
Best Answer
The HP recommended way is to install the Proliant Support Pack for your operating system (regardless) with the HPONCFG and iLO Management Interface Driver.
Then run the
%Program files%\HP\hponcfg\hponcfg /a /w C:\ilo-config-output.txtcommand to dump the complete ILO configuration to C:\ilo-config-output.txt. Then Python away.Google for "HP iLO 3 Scripting and Command Line Guide" and check www.hp.com/go/iLO3 for Sample ILO scripts as well.