[Freeipmi-users] HP iL03 1.5 adds support for Drive Monitoring

[Daniele Sluijters]

Hello,

HP has "recently" released an update to iLO3, bringing it up to v1.50. Most 
important in this update is
the ability to monitor disk drives through IPMI. This update only applies to 
BL/ML/SL/DL servers G7.

A complete list of enhancements can be found at: http://is.gd/aCWHvd

It seems unlikely a similar update is in the works for iLO2.

HP has also updated its severely limited documentation but doesn't seem to have 
expanded the iLO
sections in the documentation at all.

I've tested this on a few of our machines and with the new firmware and 
freeipmi 0.7.17 (Debian stable).
We now get disk status, the output looks like this:

46: Cntlr 1 Bay 1 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
47: Cntlr 1 Bay 2 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
48: Cntlr 1 Bay 3 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
49: Cntlr 1 Bay 4 (Drive Slot): [OK]
50: Cntlr 2 Bay 5 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
51: Cntlr 2 Bay 6 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
52: Cntlr 2 Bay 7 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
53: Cntlr 2 Bay 8 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
54: Cntlr 3 Bay 1 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
55: Cntlr 3 Bay 2 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
56: Cntlr 3 Bay 3 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
57: Cntlr 3 Bay 4 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
58: Cntlr 4 Bay 5 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
59: Cntlr 4 Bay 6 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
60: Cntlr 4 Bay 7 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]
61: Cntlr 4 Bay 8 (Drive Slot): [Drive Presence]

A status of OK means there's no drive installed in that slot, Drive Presence 
means a drive is installed and
operational. Turning on the UID of a drive does not affect the output, it will 
still display Drive Presence or OK.
I've yet to determine what it will output when a drive is failing.

ipmi-sensors -L now also has a new category:
Drive_Slot

According to the release notes it it also possible to read temperature sensors 
on select Smart Array Controllers,
but I haven't been able to figure out what ours are and if it should work.

bmc-info now gives:

Device ID:         19
Device Revision:   1
Firmware Revision: 1.50
                   [Device Available (normal operation)]
IPMI Version:      2.0
Additional Device Support:
                   [Sensor Device]
                   [SDR Repository Device]
                   [SEL Device]
                   [FRU Inventory Device]
                   [Chassis Device]
Manufacturer ID:   11
Product ID:        8192
Channel Information:
       Channel No: 0
      Medium Type: IPMB (I2C)
    Protocol Type: IPMB-1.0
       Channel No: 2
      Medium Type: 802.3 LAN
    Protocol Type: IPMB-1.0
       Channel No: 7
      Medium Type: OEM
    Protocol Type: KC

Kind regards,

-- 
Daniele Sluijters