[Info-vax] RX2800 i4 iLO 3 firmware

[Rich Jordan]

On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 6:30:06 PM UTC-5, kemain... at gmail.com wrote:
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> >Cc: Dennis Boone <d... at ihatespam.msu.edu> 
> >Subject: Re: [Info-vax] RX2800 i4 iLO 3 firmware 
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> > > Is the iLO an HPe thing, or do others use it, or something similar? 
> > 
> >iLO is the HP trade name for a remote management board. Dell calls it a DRAC. 
> >Others have equivalent products. These boards predate the common 
> >appearance of IPMI, BMC, WfM, etc on motherboards. I imagine current 
> >implementations probably provide and/or are based on the industry 
> >"standards". 
> > 
> >Provided remote control services have long included serial console 
> >redirection, kvm functionality, virtual media for booting / installing / testing, 
> >reset button. Newer support includes full power management, a service 
> >processor console for exploring and setting various things. 
> > 
> >De
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> Out of band server management like ILO's, DRAC including remote power mgmt. strategies has been around for decades (early 1980's). 
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> VAX Nautilus and Polarstar systems used external PRO-350/380 PC systems to manage (including Poff/Pon, searchable soft log files) VAX systems. 
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> Bit of trivia - one Nautilus/Pstar console firmware fix involved changing the console command "H" for Help to require a minimum of two characters "HE". 
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> Reason was that some would log into the console mode on a running system, type "H" for help and the running system would then immediately HALT. 
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> (H = help or halt) 
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> For those that remember the WW DEC VAX notesfiles, Atlant Schmidt was the key VAX PC350/380 console firmware developer. Excellent resource. 
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> 😊 
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> Regards, 
> 
> Kerry Main 
> Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com 
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Strictly HP, I have been able to download just the iLO firmware for any Proliant at no cost.   Same with the online configurator.  BIOS and other firmware as well as the complete spp for proliants has been behind a paywall for a long time now.  RX firmware kits have also been paywalled but I had hopes (and I know in the past it was in fact this way) that _kust_ the ilo firmware itself was still freely downloadable.

Maybe HPe no longer GIF since they're not supporting VMS or other uses for the RX  series any longer so decided to squeeze more dollars.  Don't know.

Would the firmware BIN file from a Proliant iLO 3 work on an Integrity iLO 3?

Thanks
Rich