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Sat, 6 Jan 2024

6:51 PM - HPE dl20 gen9 debian 12 software

If you need to install HPE management software in linux for the agent or ssa configuration, do the following

create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/debian/ bookworm/12.80 non-free non-free-firmware

for keys:

curl -fsSL https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpPublicKey2048.pub | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hpPublicKey2048.gpg
curl -fsSL https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpePublicKey2048_key1.pub | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hpePublicKey2048_key1.gpg
curl -fsSL https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/hpPublicKey2048_key1.pub | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hpPublicKey2048_key1.gpg

For agent:

apt install amsd

For ILM (LOM)
apt install hponcfg

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6:53 PM - Using HPE ILM v4

If you need to use HPE ILM v4 on a server, there is usually a sticker on the server with the default hostname and username/password combination.  You can then hit that with a web browser to the standard port and login.

In the bios, you can also add users and set permissions for it.

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7:03 PM - using metalink tools (CLI) to generate a metalink file

**Install metalink-tools package **

mport install metalink-tools

metalink -d md5 -d sha1 M*  < mirror > 3.1.3-amd64.metalink

where mirror is a text file containing:

us 10 % https://archer.midnightbsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/3.1.3/ 

us 10 % https://ns3.foolishgames.net/ftp/pub/MidnightBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/3.1.3/

us 20 % https://www.midnightbsd.org/ftp/MidnightBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/3.1.3/

uk 10 % https://discovery.midnightbsd.org/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/3.1.3/

jp 10 % https://pub.allbsd.org/MidnightBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/3.1.3/

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7:09 PM - HPE DL20 Gen9 Configuration issues with Linux

I had a lot of issues getting HPE DL20 gen9 server working with Linux today.  It won't even boot with ubuntu server 23.10 or the LTS release. It would hang with constant resets on the SSA. 

Disabling SSA and going to AHCI mode in the bios allowed me to boot debian 12 after a lot of trial and error.

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7:13 PM - vm-bhyve quick start for MidnightBSD

1\. mport install vm-bhyve
2\. vm init
6\. cp /usr/local/share/examples/vm-bhyve/* /mountpoint/for/vm/.templates/
7\. vm switch create public
8\. vm switch add public em0
9\. vm iso https://midnightbsd.org/ftp/MidnightBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/3.1.3/MidnightBSD-3.1.3--amd64-disc1.iso
10\. vm create myguest
11\. vm install [-f] myguest MidnightBSD-3.1.3--amd64-disc1.iso
12\. vm console myguest

Here's an example template for midnightbsd. 

loader="bhyveload"
cpu=3
memory=4096M
network0_type="virtio-net"
network0_switch="public"
disk0_type="virtio-blk"
disk0_name="disk0.img"
disk0_size="90"

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