hpilo in FreeBSD

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:37:55AM +0400, Pavel Timofeev wrote:
> > Red Hat 5.5 (and CentOS 5.5, respectively) contains a driver for iLO, which
> is
> > called hpilo.
> 
> Yes, I`m sure.
> 
> > And I just checked RedHat EL5 Update 5, there are no packages included
> > which start with hp.
> 
> Excuse me, please, I forgot to say the main thing: this is not package, this is
> kernel module (I previously called it 'driver')!
> Sorry for confusion!
> 
> for example:
> /sbin/modprobe hpilo

Ok, the kernel module is there:

itrepofrmt01 root mnt/Server # rpm -q -l -p kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.i686.rpm | grep -i ilo
/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/kernel/drivers/misc/hpilo.ko

This kernel is also provided by the hp-ilo rpm from HP. This rpm also provides
a source code to rebuild the module. So it could be used to port it to FreeBSD.
But the ilo module is not the only thing to manage a HP server. There are
other programs and items, which make the whole management suite. But for the
other stuff, not everything is provided with source.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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