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Inventory of ILO details 

Oct 11, 2016 04:38 PM

I got interesting question, whether ILO network interface details can be collected via Altiris Inventory.

My immediate impressions was that it must be possible - since I perfectly remember seeing that some time ago.

 

Those of you who were/are using Altiris Deployment Server v6.9 might recall that, too. 

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To make the story short, iLo technology has been deprecated from ITMS, tentatively already from 7.6. That is what I was told when I asked.

Inventory cannot collect that information in general, since OS is not aware of that - because that is proprietary solution only.

Integrated Lights-Out, or iLO, is a proprietary embedded server management technology by Hewlett-Packard which provides out-of-band management facilities: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integrated_Lights-Out

Other HW manufacturers have implemented similar instrumentation, but that is nothing really standardized, so we could hardly expect inventory would collect this out or box.

Similar functionality is offered by other vendors, for example Sun/Oracle's LOM portDell DRAC, the IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter and Cisco CIMC.

Many servers are virtualized today (like VMware or Hyper-V) and there is no "LOM" technology implemented, since HW is virtualized.

Should you really need ILO details collected, please check what version of ILO have you implemented, and configure custom inventory accordingly.  

HP_ILO.jpg

Consider whether effort to have that collected is worth of real data value :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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