ILOM (Integrated Lights Out Manager) on Oracle EXADATA

ILOM (Integrated Lights Out Manager)

(ORACLE EXADATA=Combination of SERVERS+STORAGE CELL)

Each of this has ILOM interface which is used for hardware management and maintenance activity

ILOM is system management firmware you can use to monitor, manage, and configure a variety of Sun server platforms.

Oracle ILOM’s dedicated hardware and software is pre-installed on a variety of Oracle Sun server platforms.

ILOM is to provide support for a server in a manner such that access to the data center is not required for day-to-day support functions.

An ILOM also provides access to a variety of diagnostic features and has integration with Oracle’s Automatic Service Requests to provide call-home functionality to report hardware failures to Oracle for fast support.

The Oracle ILOM service processors provide a wide array of features, and its functional aspects improve with every release of the ILOM.

The Oracle ILOM service processor (SP) runs its own embedded operating system and has a dedicated Ethernet port, which together provide out-of-band management capability

·                     Remotely control the power state of your server

·                     System monitoring

·                     Remote KVMS capabilities

·                     Fault display

·                     Integration with a variety of authentication systems, such as LDAP, SSL, Radius and Active Directory

·                     Remote syslog setup

·                     SNMP and SMTP-based alerting

·                     Updating the firmware

·                     Environmental reporting

·                     View the graphical and non-graphical consoles for the host

·                     Gather the hardware diagnostics

·                     Monitoring host states remotely

·                     Access to various part and serial numbers

·                     Determine the hardware configuration of your system

Oracle ILOM automatically initializes as soon as power is applied to the server. It provides a full-featured, browser-based web interface and has an equivalent command-line interface (CLI).

Note -

ILOM supports the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), which enables you to monitor and control your server platform, as well as to retrieve information about your server platform.

ILOM supports alerts in the form of IPMI Platform Event Trap (PET) alerts. Alerts provide advance warning of possible system failures.

Oracle ILOM supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which is used to exchange data about network activity.(ILOM on database servers can use SNMP to send sensor alerts to an Enterprise Manager Agent.)