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

[Eli Mesika]

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Martin Perina <mperina at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Gianluca Cecchi <
> gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Martin Perina <mperina at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> ​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
>>> ​
>>>
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>> It seems on ovirt node the man pages are missing, probably to cut off
>> installation base.. ;-)
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> ​Unfortunately you are right, space saving :-(
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>> 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
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> ​They should be more or less the same ...
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>>>> All in all do you think it is the best agent for ilo4 based blades?
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>>> ​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.
>>> ​
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>>>> 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?
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>>> ​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​:
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>>>   Virtual power and reset
>>>   Remote Console Access
>>>   Virtual Media
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>>> And you need to add following into Options for the host PM settings:
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>>>   privlvl=operator
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>>> ​
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Martin​
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>> Perfect: it works.
>> Assigned the three privileges to the fenceuser user and now the
>> corresponding command line works
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>> # fence_ilo4 -a ilo_ip -l fenceuser -L operator -S
>> /usr/local/bin/my_fence_script.sh -o status
>> Status: ON
>> #
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>> And also from gui the test is ok using ilo4 type and
>> "privlvl=operator,inet4_only=1" option
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> ​Great to hear!
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>> 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)
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​That's right, but engine will fail to restart the server in case it is not
responding if not all 3 are set ....​

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> ​Thanks for info!
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> Martin
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>> Thanks again,
>> Gianluca
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