Boot settings and rebooting

HP servers can boot in various ways and from many devices. The functions in this section let you manipulate bootup settings and reboot the server and the iLO. If you need to power off the server hard, take a look at the power documentation.

class hpilo.Ilo

reset_rib()

Reset the iLO/RILOE board

reset_server()

Power cycle the server

cold_boot_server()

Force a cold boot of the server

warm_boot_server()

Force a warm boot of the server

get_one_time_boot()

Get the one time boot state of the host

>>> ilo.get_one_time_boot()
normal

set_one_time_boot(device)

Set one time boot device, device should be one of normal, floppy, cdrom, hdd, usb, rbsu or network. Ilo 4 also supports EMB-MENU (Displays the default boot menu), EMB-ACU (Boots into ACU), EMB-HPSUM-AUTO (Boots HPSUM in automatic update mode), EMB-DIAGS (Launches Insight Diagnostics for Linux in interactive mode) and RBSU (Boots into the system RBSU)

get_persistent_boot()

Get the boot order of the host. For uEFI hosts (gen9+), this returns a list of tuples (name, description. For older host it returns a list of names

>>> ilo.get_persistent_boot()
['cdrom', 'floppy', 'usb', 'hdd', 'network']

set_persistent_boot(devices)

Set persistent boot order, devices should be comma-separated

get_supported_boot_mode()

>>> ilo.get_supported_boot_mode()
LEGACY_ONLY

get_current_boot_mode()

Get the current boot mode (legaci or uefi)

>>> ilo.get_current_boot_mode()
LEGACY

get_pending_boot_mode()

Get the pending boot mode (legaci or uefi)

>>> ilo.get_pending_boot_mode()
LEGACY

set_pending_boot_mode(boot_mode)

Set the boot mode for the next boot to UEFI or legacy