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How to get or set iLO details from Linux and Windows (when you lost iLO access)

As an sysadmin, its always headache to deal with remote systems as rely on remote consoles (HP iLO, Dell iDRAC etc) for servers to access…

In HP, Infrastructre & Hardware, Utilities, Nov 20, 2017

How To Recover HP C7000 Enclosure OA Access (BladeCenter)

We have cases where we lost OA access due to failed VLAN configurations, Wrong IP/VLAN configured on Active OA, OA not responding etc. Here explained…

In Infrastructre & Hardware, HP C7000, HP OA, Oct 27, 2017

Quick Hardware Collection Script for HP C7000 Enclosure

Since I am playing with so many HP bladecenters daily, it was bit difficult to do quick hardware checks whenever there is an issue. So…

In HP, Infrastructre & Hardware, Scripts, Jul 31, 2017

Upgrade HPE iLO from Linux Command Line

Download HPE iLO firmware files from HPE portal. Make sure you download the required version from here 2. Confirm downloaded packages are full by…

In HP, Infrastructre & Hardware, Utilities, Jun 08, 2017

Email Management – Quick Tips

Keep your inbox as empty as possible Move important messages to proper sub-folders or delete unwanted right away. Delete e-mails that are no longer required…

In Workplace, Email, Email Management, May 17, 2016

Subnet Mask Information – Quick Reference Sheet

Address Bits Pref NetMask 1  0 /32 255.255.255.255 2  1 /31 255.255.255.254 4  2 /30 255.255.255.252 8  3 /29 255.255.255.248 16  4 /28 255.255.255.240 32 …

In Infrastructre & Hardware, Network, Utilities, Oct 13, 2015

How to check CPU count information (LUX)

Quick methods to check. Linux [root~]# dmidecode -t processor grep CPU Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7- 4830 @ 2.13GHz Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7- 4830…

In Infrastructre & Hardware, Utilities, Jul 21, 2015

Register in RHN after installation

There are many situations where we need to register the host/server to RHN server manually, due to network issues, bad certificate/authentication or time difference on…

In Infrastructre & Hardware, Utilities, LINUX, Aug 04, 2014

How to Check Linux/Unix Operating System Version, Maintenance Level, Architecure

We can identify the Unix Operating System architecture by uname or arch command. Try below examples. Linux kernel version and hardware architecture # uname -m…

In Infrastructre & Hardware, Utilities, ARCHITECTURE, Apr 29, 2014

dmidecode – best usages [updated]

Check Hyper-threading (Virtualization) available or not # dmidecode -t processor grep HTT HTT (Multi-threading) HTT (Multi-threading) Check if its enabled or not. # l...

In Infrastructre & Hardware, Utilities, Nov 13, 2013