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"pxe boot once" option for HP servers
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hp ilo4 on gen8 servers doesn't seem to have a "boot from PXE only once" option judging from the documentation. However it is possible to boot only once for virtual media so perhaps we can exploit that to "chain load" pxe boot

switching boot order back and forth isn't a big issue ATM but it needlessly complicates (re)imaging of servers (hence priority low)

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fgiunchedi created this task.Feb 13 2015, 10:23 AM
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So, iLO3 for sure supports boot once. At least via the RIBCL (an XML language for configuration). I am pretty sure of that as I have written the following code in servermon

https://github.com/servermon/servermon/blob/master/servermon/hwdoc/vendor/bmc_ilo3.py#L425

So it is quite probably possible in iLO4

in the future (as soon as T88424 is done) should be possible to do things like

./manage.py hwdoc_boot_order -o <serial>

fgiunchedi closed this task as Invalid.Apr 29 2016, 12:28 PM

indeed, IIRC also the same works via wmf-reimage (i.e. using ipmi)

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