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Does anyone know how to use the HP iLO 2 remote console on Linux?
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Hello everyone! I am renting a HP ProLiant DL360 G6 from @cociu and I would like to access the remote console in iLO to install my own OS with disk encryption. My provider has given me a VPN, and from there I access iLO using a web browser. My operating system is Debian 9.6 (OpenVPN route settings do not work in Windows 10).
The remote console is a Java Applet, how can I run it in Firefox on Debian? Using Chromium gives the error "ERR_SSL_BAD_RECORD_MAC_ALERT" so I need to use Firefox. I have all the icedtea-* packages installed for the java applet, however Firefox doesn't even ask me if I want to run the plugin.
This issue is not the fault of my provider, and it's a budget server so I don't expect them to guide me through this. Thank you for your time reading this post 
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you need to use internet explorer only !
Internet explorer aka firefox downloader.
Doesn't work.
:P
I hope you don't think I'm that bad at troubleshooting! That link goes to http://www.hp.com/servers/manage/jvm which is a dead page.
Don't you need to use Linux only to get the VPN to work? When connecting using OpenVPN on Windows 10, I get "general failure" when trying to ping the iLO IP address. Firewall is disabled, and I tried my friend's Windows 10 PC also.
Please open a tiket or add us in skype , Adrian will help you
iLO2 only works on Internet Explorer from windows so no idea on linux
Old versions of Firefox work just fine as well, both ilo100 and ilo2
what is the output of java -version ?
have you linked the plugin properly?
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/manual-plugin-install-linux-136395.html
Yeah I tried that, including putting libnpjp2.so where it should be (both ~/.mozilla/plugins for per user and /usr/lib/firefox-esr/plugins for global). Unfortunately it looks like Firefox no longer supports Java plugins, so I'll have to find another way.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/npapi-plugins?as=u&utm_source=inproduct
openjdk version "1.8.0_181" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_181-8u181-b13-2~deb9u1-b13) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.181-b13, mixed mode)Maybe this link https://blog.wefixit.at/use-hp-ilo2-remote-console-with-linux-in-2018/ will help you out!
Try Firefox ESR or Palemoon.
There is the correct answer. ESR supports java and flash. Noo need for Exploder or Winblows.
FIXED! The solution was to download an old (51.0) version of firefox. The official Java plugin didn't work, however icedtea plugin works just fine!
The version of Firefox ESR that ships with Debian is 60.4.0esr, which has NPAPI plugins disabled even with about:config changes...
Woo! Thank you for your help.
ESR 52 is the last one that worked afaik.
I can currently use the HP iLO2 remote console on Linux to this very day. The posts that say you need IE are wrong.
I wrote up a detailed HOWTO, a couple weeks ago, on how to get it working on Arch Linux (and the same idea applies to all Linux):
https://arpnetworks.com/blog/2020/01/29/using-hp-ilo2-remote-console-on-arch-linux.html
Hope this helps!
Wow, that's pretty cool. I couldn't get the icedtea plugin to work on Arch Linux (it used to work on my old ThinkPad T520 with Ubuntu 14.04 though), so I settled for Oracle's JRE7, which was a bit of a pain to get (sign up for their site, agree to a billion legal things, download tarball..), but in the end it worked.
@garrydolley: Welcome to LET. Please don't necro a year old thread.