Tuesday, December 13, 2011

HP OA EBIPA May Not Function Properly

HP Onboard Administrator - Enclosure Bay IP Addressing (EBIPA) May Not Function Properly if Multiple Subnets Are Used in the Address Range Configuration


DESCRIPTION




In the following example, the misconfigured management processors are obtaining an IP address STATIC on the customer management network, instead of obtaining an EBIPA IP address from the Onboard Administrator. It is fixed and unable to change it.
 
 

RESOLUTION:

Telnet 192.168.1.1 (Onboard Administrator)
login with Administrator account and password







Enclosure-BL-OA>
Connect to effected blade server through Ilo
Enclosure-BL-OA> Connect Server [serial]
in my case it is at bay 3
so command will be,
Enclosure-BL-OA> Connect Server 3
It connects a server with affected IP address.
Enclosure-BL-OA> connect server 3

hpiLO-> show
status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED

/
  Targets
    system1
    map1
  Properties
  Verbs
    cd version exit show set




hpiLO-> show map1/enetport1/lanendpt1/ipendpt1
status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED

/map1/enetport1/lanendpt1/ipendpt1
  Targets
  Properties
    IPv4Address=192.168.1.10
    SubnetMask=255.255.254.0
    AddressOrigin=Static
  Verbs
    cd version exit show set
This IP address need to change.


hpiLO->
hpiLO-> cd /map1/enetport1/lanendpt1/ipendpt1
hpiLO-> set IPv4Address=10.140.34.4
status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED
Network settings change applied, iLO needs to be reset.
CLI session stopped
Connection terminated by server.

ENCLOSURE-BL-OA>




login to OA through IE and check the EBIPA settings.




Done.


5 comments:

  1. Terrific! Thanks!! THis is what I needed to fix to stubborn ILOs.

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  2. Not so great in my case, when I try to fix the IP manually, it says :
    status=2
    status_tag=COMMAND PROCESSING FAILED
    error_tag=COMMAND SYNTAX ERROR
    Invalid settings of this property.

    I guess that this is due to the fact that my IP is obtained by DHCP.
    But how to change it to STATIC ?

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    1. Try this:

      set /map1/dhcpendpt1 EnabledState=no

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  3. You can do it easy :)

    Go to HP BladeSystem Onboard Administration (WEB) - > Device Bay -> iLO -> Web Administration -> open new window ->Administration -> Change IP :)

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  4. The reason this is happening is you are using static ip address on the blade for the ILO setting. The best way to fix this is to set the blade to DHCP and it will properly get the IP address from the Chassis.

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