What is Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)?

Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) is the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) version of ‘Remote Management’. If you purchase Remote Management with your server or request to have Remote Management installed on your server, and your server is a HPE ProLiant server, your server will be configured with iLO.

HPE’s iLO is a hardware component, which exist on most HPE ProLiant servers, which allow the user to have greater administrative control over their devices remotely. When iLO is configured on a HPE server, you can access the iLO remotely through a web-based GUI portal, through a dedicated IPv4 address configured on the iLO. Once you have accessed and logged in to a server’s iLO, you can use the iLO portal to check the current status of your server and its hardware, to run operations/tasks on your server, and to start a Remote Console.

We encourage our clients to order Remote Management with their server (thus iLO with a HPE server), as it allows the user to check the status of their hardware, which means that it can be used to identify hardware related issues and provide the necessary information to have this hardware replaced. HPE’s iLO also allows our clients to be able to start a remote console at any time; meaning that they do not have to wait for a KVMoIP to setup and providing the user greater control, 24/7.

Please note that the iLO component is unique to HPE servers, so iLO is only available on our HPE ProLiant servers. Servers manufactured by other companies use other forms of remote management, similar to iLO. Some other examples include iDRAC for Dell PowerEdge servers and IPMI for SuperMicro servers. This means that the form of remote management provided depends on the make and model of the server.

If you have any further questions about iLO or Remote Management, please look through our FAQ section. If our FAQ page does not have the answer, please feel free to raise a support ticket, and we will be happy to help.