At work I manage many types of servers including HP. Servers usually have the option for some type of remote consol access, and HP’s is called ILO which stand for Integrated Lights Out. Basically you can connect from a web interface which makes it appear as your standing at the console of your server.

If you happen to run into the issue of only seeing a blank screen when you try to connect to your ILO it can because of a permissions problem. ILO needs to install an Active X Control in Internet Explorer, and this is why some of our admins couldn’t access the ILO. This ILO happened to be a blade center, so it was pretty important. Even the admins have locked down desktops in our environment, so some people couldn’t install the active control (although I could =p ).

If that’s not your problem, make sure you don’t have ports 80 and 443 (SSL) blocked through any firewalls.

If you can’t access and install the Active X control, then you can possibly register the DLL if you have rights to do that. Here’s how to get it:

In order to use the new features in the iLO 2 v1.30 Integrated Remote Console, an ActiveX control update is downloaded to connected client PC’s. If your network policy prohibits ActiveX control downloads, you can capture the DVC.DLL from a single system and then distribute the file to client machines on the network using your preferred client update process. To capture the DVC.DLL follow the instructions below:

• Log into iLO 2
• Type https://ilo_name/dvc.cab in the browser address bar
• The file download dialog box displays. Click Open and save the DVC.DLL file to your local drive
• Copy the DVC.DLL file to the client system that does not allow ActiveX downloads
• From this client system, open a command prompt window. Navigate to the directory containing the DVC.DLL file and enter regsvr32 dvc.dll

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ilobest-practice.html

Note that you’ll have to extract the DLL file from the cab file.

Hope this might help someone who runs into the same problem.

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