HP Integrity Superdome 2 HP Integrity Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator User G - Page 9

Table 1 Benefits of using a redundant Onboard Administrator versus a single Onboard Administrator (continued) Onboard Administrator feature Single Onboard Administrator in enclosure Single Onboard Administrator failed or removed Redundant Onboard Administrator in enclosure blades and interconnects from overheating. EBIPA. Yes. Complete control. No. EBIPA IP addresses are lost after lease timeout. Yes. Complete control, including sustaining a failure of either Onboard Administrator. Ethernet communications to Onboard Administrator, server iLO 3, interconnect management processors such as Virtual Connect, which use the Onboard Administrator/iLO management port. Yes. Complete control. No. Ethernet management Yes. Complete control, communications are not including sustaining a failure available, including internal of either Onboard management traffic such as Administrator. Virtual Connect Manager to other VC modules in the enclosure. Information and health status Yes. Complete control. reporting for all blades, interconnects, fans, power supplies, Onboard Administrators, and enclosure through the Onboard Administrator GUI or CLI, AlertMail, or SNMP. No. Neither is any information available from the Onboard Administrator, nor is any out-of-band information available from VCM or iLO 3 on any server. Yes. Complete control, including sustaining a failure of either Onboard Administrator. Insight Display. Yes. Complete control. No. Yes. Complete control, including sustaining a failure of either Onboard Administrator. Enclosure DVD. Yes. Complete control. No. Yes. Complete control, including sustaining a failure of either Onboard Administrator. Onboard Administrator module replacement and stored settings When replacing an Onboard Administrator or if a failure occurs when using redundant Onboard Administrators: • Removing an Onboard Administrator module in a Superdome 2 enclosure with a redundant Onboard Administrator module installed results in the other Onboard Administrator module immediately becoming the active Onboard Administrator if it was the standby Onboard Administrator. Only the network settings of the replaced Onboard Administrator network settings are lost. • If Onboard Administrator complex firmware versions are identical, manually update the replaced Onboard Administrator network settings using the Insight Display. The replaced Onboard Administrator module gets automatically synchronized on all enclosure settings by the active Onboard Administrator. NOTE: If the enclosure IP mode is enabled, both Onboard Administrators have the same network settings and no manual update is required. • If the complex firmware versions are not identical, the Onboard Administrator GUI and Onboard Administrator CLI can be used to synchronize the firmware versions to the most recent version in the modules, followed by synchronization of the active Onboard Administrator configuration settings to the new standby Onboard Administrator module. Overview 9