A few weeks ago I was searching for software to manage a Integrated Lights Out card in a HP server from the command prompt or through software available from open source or HP themselves. I couldn't find it.

This week I got pointed to a tiny little tool of a few KB's that can all do that and is from HP themselves. The tool called CPQLOCFG.exe is a command line utility that uses xml to configure your ILO board in a HP server. This utility requires the following minimum firmware revisions:

• Integrated Lights-Out 2 firmware version 1.00 or later
• Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition II firmware 1.01 or later
• Integrated Lights-Out firmware version 1.10 or later
  Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE I) firmware 2.50 or later

I was amazed how easy you can configure the ILO board without having to reboot the server pres F8 and go into the menu and configure all, then let the server boot up after configuring the ILO board. The tool is downloadable from www.hp.com and you have to search for SP31640.exe. It makes life easier and as we admins of servers are kinda lasy we just want that. A friend of mine always tells me if you have to do 1 task multiple times write a script it saves you time, sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't  but I wanted to share this knowledge with you. Have fun using it HP also has example scripts which are usable in the realworld so give it a shot if you work with HP servers.

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Playwell Manager | 2007-02-20 16:41:23 My motto: If it moves script it! HP goes the length for us infrastructure nerds. Same for Dell really but it's not public unfortunately. you'd have to call support for a lot of tools which have to with bios altering or otherwise. Dell does have the sms plugin to update their hardware/drivers though while HP uses it's own system. The advantage of sms is the number of rapports you can pull out about the state of your machines.

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