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

[Martin Perina]

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Martin Perina <mperina at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> ​Please take a look at man page of fence_ilo_ssh and scroll down to
>> STDIN  PARAMETERS section. These parameters needs to be used in Options
>> field in webadmin
>> ​
>>
>
> It seems on ovirt node the man pages are missing, probably to cut off
> installation base.. ;-)
>

​Unfortunately you are right, space saving :-(
​


> Anyway I would check installing the ordinary rpm package on a base CentOS
> 7 system.
> In the mean time I have checked the STDIN  PARAMETERS section of
> fence_ilo4 man page for a CentOS  6.7 clustersuite server I have at hand,
> thanks. I think it should be similar
>

​They should be more or less the same ...
​


>
>
>
>>> All in all do you think it is the best agent for ilo4 based blades?
>>>
>>
>> ​Yes, according to our knowledge ilo4 should be used for all new HP
>> servers (and also ilo4 agent has most of default parameters, so if you
>> don't have some special configuration on your server you should be fine.
>> ​
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> ​If you are using admin user, then the default should be fine. If you are
>> want to create a special user just for oVirt PM operations then following
>> permissions needs to be assigned to user within iLO4 configuration​:
>>
>>   Virtual power and reset
>>   Remote Console Access
>>   Virtual Media
>>
>> And you need to add following into Options for the host PM settings:
>>
>>   privlvl=operator
>>
>> ​
>> Thanks
>>
>> Martin​
>>
>>
> Perfect: it works.
> Assigned the three privileges to the fenceuser user and now the
> corresponding command line works
>
> # fence_ilo4 -a ilo_ip -l fenceuser -L operator -S /usr/local/bin/my_fence_script.sh
> -o status
> Status: ON
> #
>
> And also from gui the test is ok using ilo4 type and
> "privlvl=operator,inet4_only=1" option
>

​Great to hear!
​


>
> BTW: for the fence_ilo_ssh agent it is enough to have only the "Virtual
> power and reset" privilege for the dedicated user (at least to get the
> status of the blade)
>

​Thanks for info!

Martin
​


>
> Thanks again,
> Gianluca
>
>
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