Rebooting a Lithium Node via iLO3

Overview

There are times when you want to reboot a Lithium node, like an RTR, but cannot reach it via SSH as it does not work for the OAM IP. This article provides information on how to reboot a Lithium node, in such a case, by connecting to the iLO IP address on the same node via SSH.

Process

To reboot the server via iLO, please follow the steps below.

1. Request the iLO IP address.
2. SSH into iLO via jumpoff server (mbpe-customer) or another VPN / remote access method.
3. Execute the power reset command to reboot the server.
    
   

   
   </>hpiLO-> power reset
   
   status=0
   status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED
   Mon Sep 30 23:39:27 2019
   
   Server resetting .......
   
   

   You can follow boot messages via the serial console using the vsp or textcons (subject to license) commands.

   </>hpiLO-> vsp

   or
    
   

   </>hpiLO-> textcons

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Confirmation

Once the node is accessible again via the OAM IP, verify the process by following the procedure below.

1. Run the following commands as the textpass user.
      
   

   $ tp_status
   $ tp_walk smsCounters  | grep -v ": 0"
   $ tail -f /var/log/messages

    
2. Run a health-check using lnxcfg tool as the root user by selecting 4. System Health Check.
    
   

   # lnxcfg
   
                                   lnxcfg
   
                       1. Network Configuration
                       2. Switch Configuration
                       3. Disk Configuration
                       4. System Health Check
                          [Q]uit
   
   
                                selection

    
3. Check the output for possible hardware issues.

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