Multiple server monitoring with HPs iLO ... ?

[lars]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, lars wrote:
> 
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm looking at deploying some HP servers in the new year,and one 
>>> thing that I'm finding a drawback is that their iLO, as far as I can 
>>> tell, would require me to open on browser window for ever server I 
>>> want to monitor remotely ...
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any tools (OSS, preferably runs on FreeBSD) that 
>>> would allow me to almalgamate and monitor multiple DL servers from 
>>> one window?
>>
>> Doesn't HP's iLO have an SSH interface?
> 
> 
>> From what I've been able to tell so far (not having a physical machine to 
> 
> play with yet) is that its purely web based ... for something that is 
> meant to be deployed in a server room, you'd think they'd have some sort 
> of 'integration' tool :(
AFAIK HP's "integration tool" is HP OpenView, whether you want to use that
is up to you. Opinions on it's quality vary.



But for the SSH bit of iLO, I just logged into one of our servers.
It has an SSH interface. The iLO command line is a bit odd, but usable.

So remotely power cycling or marking a server from a Unix box is doable.
IIRC you can even load your own key file via the web interface and
henceforth log in automagically without interactively entering a password.