Super slow HP ILO 2 web interface

Thu Jan 24 04:16:46 UTC 2013

I've dealt with moody ILO's in the past. Presuming (1) they're all on
the latest firmware (2) there isn't anything fishy/tell-tale in the logs
and (3) that you aren't afraid of a CLI, my advice would be to look into
using python-hpilo, which provides a command line interface to the ILO
API for A-Z management tasks:

http://seveas.github.com/python-hpilo/ilo.html

# hpilo_cli --help
Usage: hpilo_cli [options] hostname method [args...]

Options:
  -l LOGIN, --login=LOGIN
                        Username to access the iLO
  -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD
                        Password to access the iLO
  -i, --interactive     Prompt for username and/or password if they are not
                        specified.
  -c FILE, --config=FILE
                        File containing authentication and config details
  -t TIMEOUT, --timeout=TIMEOUT
                        Timeout for iLO connections
  -j, --json            Output a json document instead of a python dict
  -P PROTOCOL, --protocol=PROTOCOL
                        Use the specified protocol instead of autodetecting
  -d, --debug           Output debug information, repeat to see all XML data
  -o PORT, --port=PORT  SSL port to connect to
  --untested            Allow untested methods
  -h, --help            show this help message or help for a method
  -H, --help-methods    show all supported methods

-- 
Gino O'Donnell
Seattleit.net

On 1/23/13 6:24 PM, Erik Levinson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is probably an OT question for this list, but I thought someone here may have encountered this.
> 
> I've been having a really annoying super slow web interface access to ILO 2 on our DL360 G5s and G6s, since day one, on all of them. SSH to ILO is perfectly fine. IPMI is fine. VSP is fine. Everything to do with ILO is fine except the damn web interface, which is slow to load pages intermittently. It kind of works in bursts for a few seconds when it works, so I try to do things quickly. It's hard to characterize exactly what's happening beyond my vague description, but I've looked at the dev tools in Chrome, tried FF, etc. with no luck. 
> 
> One thing I haven't tried in a while is a packet capture of an ILO port to see if it's doing something weird, like trying to do rDNS on the client's IP or on itself, etc. 
> 
> If it helps, our config doesn't use DHCP and otherwise all the boxes are reset to defaults, then have their IP/SM/GW configured and local users configured...nothing fancy. We do use our own SSL certs, but the problem happens without them as well, so I've already ruled that out. 
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on what obvious thing I could have missed? 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Erik
> 