Proliant Hints

This page exists to store weird stuff I found when working with proliant systems, with the hope that people will be able to find it via search engines and maybe save some pain.

To get a proliant to PXE boot from other NICs (like "NIC 2" for example), you can edit the settings via the GUI RBSU, you probably want to set NIC2 to PXE and set NIC1 to disabled. But if you don't have access to the console or the java based virtual console (like for example there is no java plugin for your architecture, grr) then you can use the text interface to the RBSU. Here is an example session.

ROM-Based Setup Utility, Version 2.10
Copyright 1982, 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

Type HELP to display a list of valid commands.
HELP [|] displays detailed information about a given command
or lists a given TREE of commands.

rbsu> SHOW CONFIG NIC 1 BOOT OPTIONS
NIC 1 Boot Options
1|iSCSI Boot
2|PXE Boot <=
3|Disabled

rbsu> SET CONFIG NIC 1 BOOT OPTIONS 3
NIC 1 Boot Options
1|iSCSI Boot
2|PXE Boot
3|Disabled <=

rbsu> SHOW CONFIG NIC 2 BOOT OPTIONS
NIC 2 Boot Options
1|iSCSI Boot
2|PXE Boot
3|Disabled <=

rbsu> SET CONFIG NIC 2 BOOT OPTIONS 2
NIC 2 Boot Options
1|iSCSI Boot
2|PXE Boot <=
3|Disabled

rbsu>

I had some notes on how to use the virtual media via the ilo ssh interface, but I misplaced them. If you find this and need them email me.

Matt Taggart <matt@lackof.org>
2008-06-11