Most Commonly used ILOM commands (Cheat Sheet)

Integrated Lights-out Manager (ILOM) helps to manage and troubleshoot the complete hardware of a server. With the help of ILOM we can remotely manage a server. We can power on and power off it remotely. Let us see some of the most commonly used commands in the ILOM shell.

Login related commands

-> start /SP/console        -- start the SP-console
-> show /SP/sessions        -- see the currently active sessions
-> stop /SP/console         -- to stop any user session

Start and stop system

-> start /SYS                            (start system)  
-> stop [-force] /SYS                    (stop system)
-> show /SYS                             (shows the power status)
-> reset /SYS                            (reset host)
-> reset /SP                             (reset ILOM SP)
-> set /HOST send_break_action=break     (send break signal to the OS)
-> reset /CMM                            (to reset CMM on a blade Chassis)

Locator commands

To set the locator on or off

-> set /SYS LOCATE=on
-> set /SYS LOCATE=off

Networking Commands

To see the current network configuration of ILOM

-> show /SP/network

To set an IP address for ILOM

-> set pendingipdiscovery=static 
-> set pendingipaddress=10.10.10.10
-> set pendingipnetmask=255.255.255.0
-> set pendingipgateway=10.10.10.1
-> set commitpending=true

To show SP MAC address

show /SP/network macaddress

If on a Blade chassis, to check the CMM IP :

-> show /CMM/network

User administration

-> show /SP/users                  (Display all the ILOM users)
-> show /SP/user/admin             (Display configuration settings of a specific user)
-> create /SP/users/user_name password=PWD role=[administrator|operator]    (create new user)
-> delete /SP/users/username       (Delete a user)
-> set /SP/users/admin01 role=administrator           (set the role of a user)
-> set /SP/users/admin01           (set or change password of user)

Monitoring and logs

-> show /SP/logs/event/list     (ILOM event log)
-> show -level all -output table /SP/faultmgmt     (List all hardware faults)
-> show -level all -output table /SYS type==Temperature value       (List all temperature sensor readings)

hardware info

-> show -level all -output table /SYS type==DIMM                (show DIMMS)
-> show -level all -output table /SYS type=='Host Processor'    (show CPUs)
-> show -l all /SYS type=='Hard Disk'                           (show disks)

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