HP ILO - DL160 G6 - Missing Hardware Inventory & Monitoring Sensors

 

Intro:

Missing Hardware Inventory & Monitoring Sensors on the ILO page after an ILO firmware update? If you just upgraded the BMC ILO firmware and didn't boot the machine then the Hardware Inventory & Monitoring Sensors page will be blank.

• You'll also notice that under the ILO Summary page, the description will read as:

Description:

Proliant generic G6

instead of:

Description:

DL160 G6

Fix:

• To get this back simply boot the system.

• Look for the line..."New Generic BMC Detected, Pre-Install a BMC SDRR/CFG". It will automatically update the BMC and the description on the summary page will change and the Monitoring Sensors page will come back.

Monitoring Sensor Data

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HP ILO - com.serverengines.rdr.EndOfStream: EndOfStream

 

Intro:

Every so often this bug will arise when trying to connect to the KVM implementation on HP ILO servers. However as of 2017, all major modern browsers have dropped support for Java applets, which relied on the Java NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plugin. Chrome dropped it in 2015 and FireFox in 2017.

*As long as 32-bit Java is installed you can run the standalone applet under Windows 10/11.

Fix:

    1. Point your browser to http://<IP_ADDRESS>/M2.JAR

• Make sure m2.jar is capitalized or it won't download the file.

    2. Run the M2.JAR file and input your IP, username, and password.

• As long as you have a 32-bit Java SE Runtime Environment that's either v202 or below, this will work.

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