HPONCFG – the HP ilo command utility

I’ve been playing more with the HP ILO configuration utility, it lets you configure the ILO using an xml script in windows without having to take the server down, I got asked the other day does the utility perform a reset of the board, and the way it works is that the HPoncfg command is run for example:

HPONCFG /f c:\martinsconfigfile.xml

It then loads this configuration to the board, if it applies network settings it will then restart the card to apply them. So one way to check is to start a ping, run the command, wait about 30 seconds or so and check if your ping responses are answered.

Also note that if you’ve upgraded the firmware on your RIB2 cards you can use this command, the firmware needs to be above 1.13 as I understand it, the current version is 1.21, the url for this is: here.

One last thing, if you’ve upgraded your firmware on the ILO cards to 1.91, I’ve found that you need to update your XML configuration scripts to version 2.0, this is easy, I’ll post an example script at the top of the script it should either say 1.2 or 2.0 dependent on your firmware version. I’ve found that 1.91 is a lot better though as firmware goes.

<RIBCL version=1.2?> THIS BIT SHOULD BE 1.2 or .20 dependent on your ILO firmware.

<LOGINUSER_LOGIN= >
PASSWORD = >

<USER_INFO MODE=>

<MOD_USER USER_LOGIN=Administrator>
<PASSWORD value=bladewatch/>

</MOD_USER>

</USER_INFO>

<RIB_INFOMODE =  >

<MOD_GLOBAL_SETTINGS >

<REMOTE_KEYBOARD_MODEL VALUE = />

</MOD_GLOBAL_SETTINGS>
<MOD_NETWORK_SETTINGS >

<ENCLOSURE_IP_ENABLE VALUE=/>
<DNS_NAME VALUE = />
<REG_DDNS_SERVER VALUE=/>

</MOD_NETWORK_SETTINGS>

</RIB_INFO>
</LOGIN>
</RIBCL>

One Response to “HPONCFG – the HP ilo command utility”

1. Lou says:

   January 26, 2009 at 16:26

   The link provided is broken – can you update the link? HP Site reports that this information is not found.

   Thanks!

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