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Lately I've seen issues with newer HP (G6, G7) servers not displaying the System Model correctly.  It usually indicates "System Model Null" or "System Model Unknown".  You may also find that the HP Server Agent service doesn't start and thus neither does the Foundation agent.   These newer servers are outfitted with a iLO2 or iLO3 management processor.  Even though you may not use this iLO for remote control of the system, the agents use it to gather info... [More]

A while ago I needed to create an external trust through a firewall and created this blog entry discussing that.  I decided to revisit this article with an updated article as some new technologies have come into play that can change how the firewall rules are built. So what has changed?  Many firewalls have implemented a new filter called DCERPC.  The DCERPC filter basically listens for RPC traffic and monitors what ports are requested and then dynamically open only those ports ... [More]

Recently I had a little problem getting my HP Agents to display the Percentage Space Used disk threshold slider under the File System Space Used section.  Turns out that the disk threshold slider control is a Java application and thus you need to have JRE installed in order to use it.   Although it's a pretty quick fix to install JRE to make it work, I wouldn't want to install JRE on all my servers just to see the slider. A few alternatives Install JRE on your H... [More]

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