hpilo in FreeBSD

Pavel Timofeev timp87 at gmail.com
Wed May 19 13:31:53 UTC 2010


as always all is hushed =(


Pavel Timofeev wrote:
> 
> Ok, I understand you.
> 
> but I return to the initial question:
> 
> 
>> So it could be used to port it to FreeBSD.
> 
> Do anyone have plans to port it?
> 
> 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Yes, I know. But I'm exactly interested in iLO.
> 
> 2010/5/18 Ulf Zimmermann <ulf at alameda.net>
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204
>> You can find my resume at:
>> http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html<http://www.Alameda.net/%7Eulf/resume.html>
>>
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