Exadata X2-2 / Oracle Sun X4170 M2 - Locator LED on ILOM 3.0

This is especially useful should you need to arrange for a disk replacement for an Oracle Sun X86 servers in a remote site. Especially when any particular component of the server needs to be replace and this should also ease the assigned Field Engineer to physically locate the server.

# ipmitool sunoem cli "show /SYS/LOCATE"
Connected. Use ^D to exit.
-> show /SYS/LOCATE

 /SYS/LOCATE
    Targets:

    Properties:
        type = Indicator
        ipmi_name = LOCATE
        value = Off

    Commands:
        cd
        set
        show

-> Session closed
Disconnected

To light up the locator LED:

# ipmitool sunoem cli "set /SYS/LOCATE value=fast_blink"
Connected. Use ^D to exit.
-> set /SYS/LOCATE value=fast_blink
Set 'value' to 'fast_blink'

To verify that the locator LED has been light up

# ipmitool sunoem cli "show /SYS/LOCATE"
Connected. Use ^D to exit.
-> show /SYS/LOCATE

 /SYS/LOCATE
    Targets:

    Properties:
        type = Indicator
        ipmi_name = LOCATE
        value = Fast Blink

    Commands:
        cd
        set
        show

-> Session closed
Disconnected

To turn off the locator LED:

# ipmitool sunoem cli "set /SYS/LOCATE value=off"
Connected. Use ^D to exit.
-> set /SYS/LOCATE value=off
Set 'value' to 'off'

-> Session closed
Disconnected