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I have never even thought of that... It's a home NAS. It has one user, me, and only 1 network cable. The faffing around with a console cable, separate from the

I have never even thought of that... It's a home NAS. It has one user, me, and only 1 network cable. The faffing around with a console cable, separate from the network cable, and the inability to just point to a boot disk like an ordinary PC, were hugely irritating and drove me to shouting anger several times. It never occurred to me that I'd want the wretched thing, let alone try to unlock more of it. All I want is to say BOOT OFF THIS DRIVE without defining volumes or single-member arrays or any of that enterprise BS.

justinclift 3y ago
The main thing I use iLO for is the remote (full screen) console (inc keyboard/mouse) that it makes available over the network. So, if I want to muck around with settings, change boot things (like in your case), etc, it's all doable from anywhere in my house via web browser. Keeps things pretty straight forward. From memory, the default iLO password for each machine is randomly generated and printed on a tag attached... um... to the back (I think?). But there's a physical switch you can set (inside somewhere) which disables the iLO login password. Less secure of course, but for a home environment that can be the right choice. :)