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Basic, affordable, IPMI, SMASH, and DCMI based remote control for ProLiant 100 series servers that provide standards-based management for powerfully simple, affordable servers.
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| General |
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What has changed with Lights-Out 100 Remote Management? |
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Lights-Out 100 Remote Management is a suite of products that enable standards based, remote management of ProLiant 100 Series servers.
With ProLiant 100 series G6 servers, LO100i will be embedded on each of them as a standard server offering and LO100i Advanced Licenses will be options for all ProLiant 100 series G6 servers. This provides better alignment with iLO since there is no LO100c option with these G6 servers.
Additionally, Technical Support & Update (TS&U) licensing for ProLiant 100 series G5 and G6 servers is now offered. More about TS&U in the question and answer below.
Lights-Out 100i Select is no longer available with ProLiant 100 series G5 servers and will not be offered on G6 servers. It will still be available on G3/G4 servers as those servers continue to ship.
LO100i has been renamed to Onboard Administrator, Powered by LO100i to better reflect embedded management capabilities.
Other changes and enhancements are:
- IPv6 support std added as a feature to ProLiant 100 series G6 servers (coexistence at launch)
- SSL & SSH security (now a standard feature with setup in factory for ProLiant 100 series G6 servers)
- DCMI 1.0 support (standard feature for ProLiant 100 series G6 servers )
Note that prior to Generation 5 servers, the Lights-Out 100 suite of products consisted of both mezzanine cards for ML 100 series and embedded LO100i functionality on ProLiant DL100 series servers which required LO100i Advanced Licenses to activate the advanced features of the embedded functionality. LO100c remote management cards (mezzanine) had the same advanced functionality as the LO100i Advanced Licenses and enabled these features on remote management features for ProLiant ML100 series servers.
Several changes occurred with version 3.0 releases of Lights Out 100 Remote Management:
- Some DL100 series begin shipping with LO100c mezzanine cards rather than with the integrated LO100i (embedded) management processor and firmware. However, most ProLiant DL100 series still required LO100i Advanced Licenses to activate their advanced features such as Virtual Media and Virtual KVM just as most ML100 series still required a Lights Out 100c Remote Management Card for their advanced features. The specific Lights Out 100 needed is reflected in each server's QuickSpecs.
- New license packaging was introduced for the LO100i Advanced Packs. Generation 5 servers that require licenses to activate advanced features now have a choice of either Flat Pack or Electronic Key Delivery Licenses.
- Enhanced browser interface and Virtual KVM provides OS-independent remote graphical console.
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How is "ProLiant Onboard Administrator" related to LO100i? |
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ProLiant Onboard Administrator is a naming change that reflects the value that is added to the collection of embedded management that is a part of all ProLiant servers and part of the ProLiant experience and is the new name for these collection of tools that provide simplified setup, embedded health and remote administration for HP ProLiant 100 series servers with advanced remote administration delivered through LO100i Advanced. These basic capabilities include set-up of ORCA, RBSU, BMC, agents, IPMI support, and remote management. Management with ProLiant involves the experience of all the wealth of these other capabilities, not just that of the remote management; hence the need for a broader name that defines the experience.
Note that for HP ProLiant 300 series (and above), remote management means iLO whereas for HP ProLiant 100 series, it means LO100. Consequently, iLO will now be called ProLiant Onboard Administrator Powered by iLO and Lights-Out 100i will now be renamed ProLiant Onboard Administrator Powered by LO100i.
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Does the name change from LO100i to ProLiant Onboard Administrator, Powered by LO100i change part numbers for it? |
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No, the skus changed due to the new TS&U and server firmware, but the names and part numbers of the Advanced Licenses did not need to adjust to reflect the move to the Onboard Administrator naming.
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What is the difference between the flat pack licenses and electronic licenses? |
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The G3 servers shipped the licenses in an option kit with Firmware Release 2.10. For the G5 servers and beyond, all licenses will be either the flat pack or electronic licenses. Flat pack licenses are essentially Certificates of Authorization (COA) in an envelope that allow you to electronically obtain your license.
Electronic key delivery is completely handled via email. Starting in January 2008, a license entitlement certificate will be delivered in place of a license key code. The license entitlement certificate will contain information needed to redeem license key codes online. This new electronic redemption process will allow for easier license management and better service and support tracking. For more information, please visit www.hp.com/go/ICe-license.
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What process does a customer follow to order the new electronic license keys? |
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The E-Delivery process was designed to be easy for the customer. After the customer goes through the standard order process, they will be required to enter an email address. They will receive an email receipt, which will have a link to their line-by-line order information, they click on the license that they want to claim, and they will see their license entitlement certificate, which will have all the information they will need to get their license key codes, and a link to webware.hp.com, which is where they will claim their license keys.
Once in webware.hp.com, they will register their customer information if it is their first time to visit that site. Their information will be saved and is retrievable via email address when they come back later for other license keys. Once they have their license keys, they can also opt to have the license keys emailed or faxed to them. That's it. This should take minutes as opposed to weeks waiting for the keys to come in the mail.
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| Licensing and Upgrades |
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What exactly is the new TS&U licensing for Lights-Out 100i Advanced? |
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Moving to Technical Support and Update (TS&U) licenses for ProLiant 100 series G6 servers is required because virtually all products in HP's Insight Software family began including one year of Technical Support and Updates (TS&U) with their initial product license in July, 2007 and iLO began supporting them in December, 2008. TS&U provides our customers with one year of 24x7 technical phone support from HP for any support issues they encounter with the product, as well as one year of eligibility for new features released for that product.
Additionally, there are regulatory reasons that HP needs to comply with in terms of delivering value and recognizing revenue, but this also brings LO100 up to speed with the rest of the software industry. Most of our customers are used to a maintenance contract with other software vendors, so this change should be familiar with how they deal with other software companies. Additionally, as mentioned earlier, every other product in the Insight Software portfolio bundles in one year of TS&U support.
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