[ovirt-users] Configuring ilo4 on hp blade gen 9

Fabrice Bacchella fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr
Thu Oct 5 08:15:36 UTC 2017


I have HP blades too (ProLiant BL460c Gen9). I have set the fencing to ilo4 and everything works fine.

Nothing special on the ilo side, just up to date firmware.

> Le 5 oct. 2017 à 09:53, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> on 4.1.6 I'm configuring fencing on HP blades Gen9.
> It seems I'm able to use ilo_ssh as agent and that I have only to set 22 as the port and ssh=1 in options 
> 
> Question: why ssh=1??? the agent is named ilo_ssh.... shouldn't be obvious???
> The same form command line I MUST set -x even if I use fence_ilo_ssh command
> 
> Nevertheless, this way I get successful test
> 
> Sometimes I don't get the same result if I run from shell eg:
> 
> fence_ilo_ssh -a ilo_ip -l fenceuser -S /usr/local/bin/my_fence_script.sh -x -o status 
> 
> I get sometimes:
> Unable to connect/login to fencing device
> 
> I think it could be some sort of delay timeout.
> In fence_ilo_ssh I see these kinds of timeouts in help
> 
>    --power-timeout=[seconds]      Test X seconds for status change after ON/OFF
>    --shell-timeout=[seconds]      Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after issuing command
>    --login-timeout=[seconds]      Wait X seconds for cmd prompt after login
>    --power-wait=[seconds]         Wait X seconds after issuing ON/OFF
>    --delay=[seconds]              Wait X seconds before fencing is started
> 
> How do they map with gui settings options in case I would use some of them?
> 
> Also, how do I map the command line option
> 
> -4, --inet4-only
> 
> Perhaps inet4_only=1 ?
> 
> I see that 
> 
> ssh=1,inet4_only=1 
> works
> 
> but also
> ssh=1,inet4_only=1,foo=1
> works
> 
> So it is not a reliable test to verify syntax...
> 
> All in all do you think it is the best agent for ilo4 based blades?
> I have made some test with fence_ilo4 but unable to get success... what should I enable on ilo web administration page in this case, if you think the agent would be better for any reason?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gianluca
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