Messages in this thread | | | From | "Altobelli, David" <> | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:47:14 +0000 | Subject | RE: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver |
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Martin Knoblauch wrote: > Somehow I feel the need to step in, as I believe that this > thread is really going in the wrong direction. > > It is true that David (or HP) definitely could have done a > better job in describing why this driver is needed and what > HP-Utilities are depending on it. This might have lead some > people to misinterpret what ILO is about.
I'm sorry about that. This driver is needed for tools like: hponcfg, hpdiags, hp-snmp-agents, and iLO flash utilities.
> ILO (Q: does HP still sell RILOE boards and are they > supporten by the driver?) is a command processor that allows
RILOE cards are not sold any more, and are not supported by this driver.
> > ILO can be configured either offline (server OS shut down), > or via the external interfaces, or from a running OS via some > HP provided utilities. For this a driver is needed, and that > is what we are talking about. From my experience as an > administrator of HP Proliant systems the only local uses for > the *internal* ILO interface is to set-up the thing, and to > do firmware upgrades.
Yeah, those are most common. This driver will also surface data through HPSMH or HPSIM, if the proper packages are installed.
> To obtain sensor data locally there are other ways, which do > not need the ILO kernel driver (hplog together with hpasmd, > which unfortunately are closed source). So , unless the > HP-ILO driver is just a replacement of the old "cpqci" > driver, there is no need to pester David on functionality. > If, of course the HP-ILO driver is needed to get to the > hpasm/hplog functionality (no driver was needed so far) the > story might be different. But then HP should provide the > specs for the Proliant sensor interface anyway and work > together with the lm_sensors project. But that is a different story.
This is a replacement for cpqci, which was released in the "hprsm" package, and later replaced by the "hp-ilo" package. The former package was not GPL, the latter is. I rewrote the driver to make it (hopefully) more palatable, in terms of both style and functionality.
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