How to get ILO management IP and Mac address

Question

I am looking for a way to find the IP address of the HP Proliant server ilo. I have searched a lot, but no luck. there are way to reboot and get into the bios for getting it. But i cant reboot the production server.

From the Linux server there are some tools I don't know which one to use.

from the below ilo prompt there must be some way to get the ip.

</>hpiLO->

The server is a under cloud env BM as a service. So I can login to both ilo and server only.

Solution 1

I'd use another approach - checking from the system you're connected on.

I have a Windows box in front of me so I'd use nslookup to look up the ip address for the hostname, then arp to look up the MAC address. (The latter assumes the two systems are in the same subnet, as MAC addresses are not visible through a router. Though you could of course check the ARP cache of the router.)

C:\Users\faile_000>nslookup phoebe
Server:  router.asus.com
Address:  192.168.1.1

Name:    phoebe
Address:  192.168.1.43


C:\Users\faile_000>arp -a 192.168.1.43

Interface: 192.168.1.110 --- 0x1b
  Internet Address      Physical Address      Type
  192.168.1.43          c0-7c-d1-c0-39-44     dynamic

Likewise you can use host or dig to look up IP addresses on Linux, and arp or ip neigh show to see the ARP cache.

   [geek@phoebe ~]$ host clocacina
clocacina has address 192.168.1.10
^[[A[geek@phoebe ~]$ dig  clocacina

; <<>> DiG 9.10.4-P1-RedHat-9.10.4-1.P1.fc24 <<>> clocacina
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12329
;; flags: qr aa rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;clocacina.                     IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
clocacina.              0       IN      A       192.168.1.10

;; Query time: 54 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Feb 13 16:37:04 SGT 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 43


[geek@phoebe ~]$ ip neigh show 192.168.1.10
192.168.1.10 dev bridge0 lladdr 00:16:d3:2d:8b:9a STALE
[geek@phoebe ~]$ arp 192.168.1.10
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
Clocacina                ether   00:16:d3:2d:8b:9a   C                     bridge0

Solution 2

I know this is old, but hponcfg -w did not return a MAC for me. I used the following:

ssh server-ilo "show -a" | grep MAC

or more specifically:

</>hpiLO-> show /map1/enetport1/lanendpt1

Properties EnabledState=enabled MACAddress=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Solution 3

Use this:

hponcfg -w iLO_ouput.out

You will get the general config from ILO.

Try this or a later Version: https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=7252838&swItemId=MTX_ed2c3a30d95f49b8a0eda8e2af&swEnvOid=4184

Comments

[user1686]

How did you get the ilo prompt in the first place?

[AReddy]

It's configured with hostname. Ping is not working it's dropped.

[Thalys]

you could look up the hostname of the ip address from the system you're connecting from, and ARP tables. Exact tools would depend on the OS.

[user1686]

If you have the hostname, you don't need ping just to resolve that name to an address. (That always happens before ping packets are sent, anyway.)

[AReddy]

Sorry I forgot to mention some details, question edited.

[Thalys]

You can still look up the IP address this way.