iLom cheat sheet – Tech Tamer

I can’t believe how much time I wasted today trying to remember the escape sequence for iLom! Here’s some notes to avoid some pain.

First off, the escape sequence is not `#.` or `Escape-(`, it is `Esc (`. That means, hit the esc key, let go, then hit the left parentheses, and let go. I hate to seem condescending, but there’s lots of ways to screw this up, and I explored many of them. The escape sequence is what you enter to get out of using the console. To get into the console, type in:

start /SP/console

Yes, caps matter – just like a real computer. It’s Sun (now Oralce) and therefore unixy.

Today, I was using “goSerial” on my mac, and I found I *shudder* couldn’t paste! Hopefully, you don’t have this problem. If so, here’s how to quickly configure the network on the iLom.

set /SP/network pendingipdiscovery=static pendingipaddress= pendingipgateway= pendingipnetmask= commitpending=true

To be clear, there are no angle brackets in the above line.

George Robinson has been taming technology since 1981. His first bitter taste of UNIX was in 1987 with Xenix 2.1.1. George's youth was spent in building electronics and writing programs to post on the local BBS. In high school, he became involved in student radio and was hired by the top station in the market. After high school, he spent two years traveling the western United States and Canada with REACH Youth Ministries. George double majored in Psychology and Music Theory at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. During college, the Internet wave hit Montana and his hobby became highly in-demand skills. George finally went pro in 1998 and has been trying to automate himself out of a job ever since. He rode the Internet boom to Orange county. Making the most of his diverse experience, he pursues a career in systems administration and DevOps. He has had roles in numerous startups and has been a systems administrator in enterprises like Verizon Wireless, Yahoo, Nestlé & Fico.