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Crysawn

Rant: HP iLO Sucks for Automation (HP sucks in general)

I just need to rant guys, Dell systems come with iDrac and the default credentials are root/calvin. 60% of the time all the time right!?

Then we have HP over here with their "oh the credentials are on the little plastic tab....or you can flip the override switch manually on the iLO card and change the credentials"

Well Dells method of default credentials works awesome for building servers. When I build a Dell box, my scripts run all the racadm commands and set company standards for iDrac. Boom, done!

For HP, it's a chaotic mess! I literally have to hunt down plastic tabs in the datacenter for 1000s of machines, and if that tab is gone for whatever reason I have to literally open the case, take downtime, flip the ilo override switch, login, change the password, and then put the switch back, etc etc etc.. What the hell HP???

TLDR: HP SUCKS

Posted Jan 5, 2017, 10:54 PM UTC

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