Get the most from your iLO 2 investment. Implement the best practices and tips below in your environment and download the "HP Lights-Out Remote Management Top 10 Usage Scenarios" brochure to discover the many ways you can benefit from HP Integrated Lights-Out.

• »Simplify use with HP SIM
• »iLO 2 Access Safeguards
• »Build a Fault/Boot Video library
• »Controlled deployment of ActiveX Controls
• »Maximize performance
• »Directory services
• »Advanced scripting

iLO 2 v1.30 provides two new best practice capabilities that make it easier to use iLO 2 and HP Systems Insight Manager together. First, single sign-on allows you to leverage HP SIM's role based authentication to automatically login to iLO 2 from the HP SIM console. This feature is available through an iLO Advanced or iLO Select license. To use this feature, you must apply the iLO 2 Single sign-on Update for HP SIM 5.1.

Leveraging single sign-on, HP SIM 5.1 also allows group actions with iLO 2 virtual power and virtual UID from the SIM menu. Now authorized users can control the power and UID of multiple servers by simply selecting the servers and clicking on the desired action in the HP SIM menu. HP SIM and iLO 2 use the new WS Management standard to enable this feature.

You can easily safeguard against temporary loss of access to an iLO or iLO 2 management processor because of a lost password or IP address. The iLO/iLO 2 online utility (HPONCFG) provides an alternate access path to iLO 2 for users with OS administrator credentials to a Linux or Windows operating system on the server. To accomplish this, make sure that you install HPONCFG and iLO Management Interface Driver on all systems. Both of these are included in Windows and Linux ProLiant Support Packs. Then familiarize yourself with the sample scripts that are used to reset passwords and identify IP addresses through HPONCFG. Use of HPONCFG is explained in the "HP Integrated Lights-Out Management Processor Scripting and Command Line Resource Guide" Take these steps and be prepared!

The new iLO 2 screen replay feature allows you to obtain server event information that may not be captured in an event log. With iLO 2 v1.30, an iLO Advanced or iLO Select license allows the management processor to automatically record screen video that precedes system faults and server boot sequences. An iLO 2 best practice involves establishing a secure library of tagged and time-stamped video files for diagnosis and training. This can be especially useful for Linux servers which can generate very large boot sequence files. For more information regarding this new best practice, consult the console replay section of the iLO 2 User Guide.

In order to use the new features in the iLO 2 v1.30 Integrated Remote Console, an ActiveX control update is downloaded to connected client PC's. If your network policy prohibits ActiveX control downloads, you can capture the DVC.DLL from a single system and then distribute the file to client machines on the network using your preferred client update process. To capture the DVC.DLL follow the instructions below:

• Log into iLO 2
• Type https://ilo_name/dvc.cab in the browser address bar
• The file download dialog box displays. Click Open and save the DVC.DLL file to your local drive
• Copy the DVC.DLL file to the client system that does not allow ActiveX downloads
• From this client system, open a command prompt window. Navigate to the directory containing the DVC.DLL file and enter regsvr32 dvc.dll

The mouse response and performance in graphical remote console of the iLO/RILOE/RILOE II can be significantly improved by following these simple steps.

The HP Lights-Out management processors integrate with Directory Services to provide secure, scalable, and cost-effective user management. Using enterprise-class directory services, such as Microsoft Active Directory and Novell eDirectory, directory users can be authenticated and granted access privileges to iLO and RILOE management processors deployed on the network. View details about Directory Services.

The HP Lights-Out management processors support an advanced scripting interface for group configuration and server actions. The scripting capability of the iLO and RILOE II provides an easy and efficient way to configure and maintain management processors in large scale IT environments, saving time and avoiding costs. For example, scripting is useful to roll out standard lights-out firmware versions, license keys and configurations as part of server deployment and to push configuration changes and updates to all your lights-out processors.

Scripting from a Windows Client - The Lights-Out Configuration Utility (CPQLOCFG.EXE) can be used to configure iLO, RILOE II, and RILOE. It takes just a few simple steps to use the scripting interface:

1. Download and install the CPQLOCFG.EXE on your client system.
2. Download and modify the sample scripts.
3. Run the CPQLOCFG program in a batch process or using HP Systems Insight Manager or Insight Manager 7. For detailed instructions on how to use the scripting interface, see the latest User Guide for iLO or RILOE-II.

Scripting from a Linux Client - The HP Lights-Out management processors scripting interface used with CPQLOCFG may also be used with PERL. Information on using PERL for HP Lights-Out scripting may be found in the Integrated Lights-Out User Guide / Integrated Lights-Out Updated Information Booklet. It takes just a few simple steps to use the scripting interface with PERL:

1. Download and modify the PERL sample scripts.
2. Execute PERL with the modified scripts. For detailed instructions on how to use the scripting interface, see the latest User Guide for iLO or RILOE-II.