HPE iLo4 Tricks

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The HPE iLo4 comes with a lot of handy features. Here are some of my better tricks for HP SL250’s.

Settings up virtual media:

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cd /map1/oemhp_vm1/cddr1
show
set /map1/oemhp_vm1/cddr1 oemhp_image=http://mirror.archlinux.org/archlinux.iso
set /map1/oemhp_vm1/cddr1 oemhp_boot=connect

Getting a serial console:

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vsp

Getting a screen scraped console:

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textcons

Power:

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power on
power off hard
power reset