The enclosure comes with a management module which is basically a little webserver built in (not correct, but read on) that you can plug a laptop into and set stuff up.  It’s called iLO, meaning Integrated Lights Out somethingorother.

I spent a good three hours trying to make it speak to me before I plugged a blade server into the box.  I was thinking that it must be my network connection that was duff, or it wanted a specific subnet or some such bs.  I ran packet sniffers, trying to see if it gave away it’s address, but all to no avail.  I used an old ADSL modem that has a DHCP server, and was polling its ARP list franticly hoping to see another IP address show up.

I plugged the blade server in, but that didn’t power up.  Humph.  Cup of tea.  RTFM.

[ The enclosure doesn’t have a server, just a simple net hub to each blade’s management port.  So I wouldn’t have ever got a response from the box alone.  Bleh. ]