Best practice in installing and configuring HP ILO

[NotANumber]

Not sure if thisis the correct forum. Des any body know of prefered way to install and configure ilo on host running esxi 5. Will it be as simple as restarting the host and going into the bios and setting the ilo this way or there another way where we do not have restart the host in order to access the bios? I connected via putty and there is does appaer to be HP ilo tools on the host to I'm unable to rest the ilo this way.

[Sreejesh_D]

HP has a product called HP Lights-Out Online Configuration Utility to configure iLO without rebooting the host. Unfortunately it supported only on Linux and windows not in ESX.

http://tinyurl.com/c26xze

To configure iLO on an ESX host we've to reboot and enter into the BIOS.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Depending on the server you have you can use hponcfg to config an iLO IP.  It is part of the HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5.x.

http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03245917/c03245917.pdf

[a_p_]

Unless you changed the initial ILO password, connect the ILO port to a DHCP enabled network port, use a web browser to open the assigned IP address. The default username is "Administrator" and the password can be found on a tag attached to the server.

André

[NotANumber]

Thanks everyone for your help, I have raised change for this weekend and will have to do it via the BIOS and migrate all the VM's onto a different host. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't another way with out going down the BIOS route as we have a lot of host that need doing but nice bit of OT