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Stefan Helander

Latest iLO2 firmware for HP Proliant DL380 Gen 5

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When looking for the latest iLO2 firmware for HP Proliant DL380 Gen 5 on the HPE website I found version 2.27 dated in 2015. To resolve browser issues with modern browsers I wanted to find a later firmware.

On this site you will find an exellent collection of all the latest iLO firmwares: https://pingtool.org/latest-hp-ilo-firmwares/

The latest listed iLO2 firmware is 2.33 dated march 2018 (when writing this post). The download links leads to HP sites so it should be legitimate. However, when unpacking the archive and investigating the Readme-file, only Gen 6 servers where listed.

HP Proliant iLO2 firmware

HP Proliant iLO2 firmware

It turns out the firmware works fine on my DL380 Gen 5 iLO2. Upgrade had to be done through Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, otherwise when trying to upgrade through other browsers I got the error message “iLO 2 firmware update has not started.” described here. The simple solution was to upgrade through MSIE 11.

Disclaimer: I can’t garantuee this will work for you or not get you in trouble with your system using the above procedure. It is just a description of what worked for me.

 

Stefan Helander

What Supermicro motherboard model does my server have?

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When getting the latest IPMI firmware for your Supermicro server, you need to know what model of the motherboard your server has. Often the server lives in a datacenter somewhere and you don’t want to go there, take down the server, pull it out of the rack and investigate it. If you are running Linux on it, you can simply check the dmesg log for “Supermicro”.

grep Supermicro /var/log/dmesg

Supermicro motherboard model

Supermicro motherboard model

Stefan Helander

Pimp my router! Linksys WRT54GL on steroids… or at least on Tomato

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I while ago I got my hands on a Linksys WRT54GL broadband router. This little fellow runs on Linux. Nice, I thought. After fiddling around with it for a while I found that the firmware had bugs.

Linksys WRT54GLI added timed access restrictions (to cut off my teenagers Internet access automatically in the evening). This worked fine until I added another rule that had nothing to do with the first and suddenly my teenagers had Internet access all night long. I also want an incoming VPN connection (PPTP) that I forward by using port forward. This worked fine for a week and of course, it stopped working when I was abroad and needed it the most. Apart from that, there is no telnet or ssh login to the router (it is running on Linux you know).

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