Hello Dojo,
In the Linux Platform driver, there is a section which contains information on the HP Server parameters. Currently I’m not able to access those parameters through the IP-address of the Linux OS, but only through the IP-address of the HP ILO.
Would anyone know what we need to install on the Linux OS to be able to access those HP SNMP parameters through the Linux OS itself?
Hi Stacey,
From HPE iLO 4, you have two possible options for SNMP. Below is a extract from HP Enterprise Documentation [Link]:
- Agentless management (default) – Use SNMP agents running on iLO to manage the server. In this configuration, iLO fulfills SNMP requests sent by the client to iLO over the network. This setting does not affect alerts.
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SNMP Pass-thru – Use SNMP agents running on the host operating system to manage the server. SNMP requests sent by the client to iLO over the network are passed to the host operating system. The responses are then passed to iLO and returned to the client over the network. This setting does not affect alerts.
Based on this, could you try:
- Setting the SNMP management option on HP iLO console to SNMP Pass-thru. This will allow you to retrieve responses from OIDs related to the Linux OS (MIB file: UCD-SNMP-MIB)
- And setting the IP address of the element (monitoring the Linux server) to the one assigned to the HP iLO interface. Since your SNMP requests are going through the iLO interface, I would expect that, apart from responses related to the Linux OS, you will also receive responses related to the HP server.
For your information, older iLO versions (iLO2 and iLO3) only supports agentless management.