HP ProLiant DL 180 / DL 380 Gen9

[silbro]

Hi everyone

First off I must say that I have almost no knowledge about Zabbix, except for using the webinterface to see if the servers are well or not. I now have a project where I need to give Zabbix information via SNMP and was wondering if my assumption is correct:

The servers I am using all have iLO4. iLO4 has an option under Administration where you can go to Management and set SNMP settings. My idea was to use this iLO to pass information to the Zabbix server. I found some files called templates on this page which are .xml files (found one for DL380Gen9 https://zabbix.org/wiki/Zabbix_Templates). I got the idea that those are supposed to be imported to zabbix so zabbix will know what status is good or bad. Is this correct? Is my assumption also correct that I can use this feature of iLO4 to monitor my servers?

Thank you very much for any support

sincerely
silbro

[silbro]

Maybe someone could give me a hint to perhaps the manual ? Maybe I should change the title to something more generic?

[alandunagan]

I think I can speak to this a little bit as I started to set this up the other day too. Unfortunately I got caught up in other things so I don't have it working yet.

From what I saw in my research, to really take advantage of data gathering of the iLO, you need to use IPMI instead of SNMP. When setting up a host, you will see IPMI as one of the interface options. However, before you can use that, you will need to install something like freeipmi on the server then you can add your scripts as needed. Once you get IPMI working, there are quite a few templates on Zabbix share.

Again, I only made it as far as installing freeipmi so I won't be much help beyond that, but hopefully this stears you in the right direction. If I make any progress soon, I will update this. Here's a good thread with much more info.

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44968

[silbro]

Thanks for your reply. My client however has Windows Systems running and I thought I could use the IPMI with SNMP independently of the OS running. That was my whole idea behind this

[kavithakm]

The HP ProLiant DL180 Gen9 and DL380 Gen9 are both enterprise-class servers from HP's ProLiant line, but there are a few key differences between them:

DL180:

• 1U form factor
• Supports up to two processors
• Maximum of 12 LFF (Large Form Factor) drives or 24 SFF (Small Form Factor) drives

DL380:

• 2U form factor
• Supports up to two processors, but can be expanded to four with additional processor trays
• Maximum of 24 LFF or up to 60 SFF drives

Overall, the DL380 is a more powerful and expandable server, with more drive bays and support for more processors, while the DL180 is a more compact and cost-effective option. The choice between the two will depend on the specific needs of your organization and the workloads you plan to run on them.

[cyber]

The HP ProLiant DL180 Gen9 and DL380 Gen9 are both enterprise-class servers from HP's ProLiant line, but there are a few key differences between them:

DL180:

• 1U form factor
• Supports up to two processors
• Maximum of 12 LFF (Large Form Factor) drives or 24 SFF (Small Form Factor) drives

DL380:

• 2U form factor
• Supports up to two processors, but can be expanded to four with additional processor trays
• Maximum of 24 LFF or up to 60 SFF drives

Overall, the DL380 is a more powerful and expandable server, with more drive bays and support for more processors, while the DL180 is a more compact and cost-effective option. The choice between the two will depend on the specific needs of your organization and the workloads you plan to run on them.

Can you explain, which part of your post gave some useful info to solve this 8 year old topic? This would be good to know about any of your answers in this forum...