Ilo Shared Management Port Features And Restrictions; Enabling The Ilo Shared Network Port Feature - HP Integrated Lights-Out User Manual

ProLiant server
DL385 G1
DL580 G3
ML370 G4
ML570 G3
When using the iLO Shared Network Port, flashing the iLO firmware through the XML interface will take
approximately 7 minutes to complete.

iLO Shared Management Port features and restrictions

Only the iLO Shared Network Port or the iLO Dedicated Management NIC port can be used for iLO
server management at one time. The iLO Shared Network Port and the iLO Dedicated Management NIC
port cannot operate simultaneously. Enabling the dedicated iLO NIC disables the iLO Shared Network
Port, and enabling the iLO Shared Network Port disables the dedicated iLO NIC.
Disabling the Shared Network Port does not completely disable the system NIC. Regular network traffic
still passes through the system NIC. When the Shared Network Port network traffic is disabled any traffic
going to or originating from iLO is not passed on to iLO through the shared Network Port because the
port is no longer shared with iLO.
The speed of the Shared Network Port is relatively low compared to the dedicated iLO Management Port.
Only a limited number of iLO features are supported through the Shared Network Port. These include:
Command line interface
XML scripting
Virtual Serial Port
Text based Remote Console
SNMP protocol
Due to the relatively low performance of the Shared Network Port, certain operations performed over the
Virtual Serial Port connection may perform at less than optimum levels. In particular, display or text editing
operations involving the display of large amounts of data may result in some dropped characters. The loss
of characters affects the display only, and does not affect the data stored on the server.
The iLO Web interface is not supported through the Shared Network Port, including:
Graphical Remote Console
Virtual Media
When the Shared Network Port is selected, iLO must be configured through either the iLO RBSU or XML.
Configuration through RBSU requires that the system be rebooted.

Enabling the iLO Shared Network Port feature

The iLO Shared Network Port feature is disabled by default. This feature can be enabled through:
iLO RBSU
The iLO Web interface
XML scripting
Minimum iLO firmware version
1.64
1.64
1.60
1.64
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