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Configuration of HP ILO can be done using reboot of your HP server

and Press <F8> to configure the ILO settings but you need a down
time to your ESXi host and all the virtual machines running on it if it
is a standalone host and no option to vMotion to other host. It is
really a tough task to get downtime for your virtuali machines just
for your ILO configurations like Reset ILO configuration, Reconfigure
ILO IP address and reset ILO administrative password.

Now ILO configuration of ESXi host can easily be done without need
of host restart using HP ESXi utilities.
HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5 will be available as
part of HP customized ESXi installer image but if it is not a HP
customized ESXi image then you may need to download and install
HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5. It downloads the
HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle Zip file.This ZIp file contains 3
different utilities HPONCFG , HPBOOTCFG and HPACUCLI utilities for Advertise Here
remote online configuration of servers.

HPONCFG can be used to set up and reconfigure the iLO (Integrated

Lights-Out) management controller of a server.
HPBOOTCFG can be used to set up the boot configuration for the
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HPACUCLI can be used in the configuration of HP Smart Array
controllers and attached storage

You can directly download HPONCFG and Upload the VIB file into
your ESXi host and execute the below command to install the
HPONCFG utility.

esxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/hponcfg-04-00.10.vib

Once it is installed. Browse towards the directory /opt/hp/tools and

execute the below commands to perform the below operations.
Below are the available help options for HPONCFG utility

Reset the ILO from ESXi host

Browse to /opt/hp/tools and execute the below command to reset
the HP ILO configuration.

./hponcfg -r

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Export the ILO configuration of your ESXi

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Edit the exported config file /tmp/ilo-conf.txt from above step and vSphere 5.5 – Download
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<IP_ADDRESS VALUE = “192.168.0.55”/>
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<DHCP_ENABLE VALUE = “N”/>
Commit the updated IP address configuration from the file (ilo- 101 Free Tools for VMware
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conf.txt) to the ILO cofig using th below command
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Thats it .You should be able to reach the ILO of the server using the
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Create a file named reset_admin_pw.xml with the below info and Difference between
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Commit the Updated administrator password information from the

file (reset_admin_pw.xml) to ILO using the below command

./hponcfg -f reset_admin_pw.xml

That’s it you should be able to login to ILO of your ESXi host using
the password specified in the above xml file. I hope this is
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