Thanks for the responses guys, very helpful...
Here is my plan:
I have been using Clonezilla on a USB drive to back up my Gen8 ML350 servers as a means of disaster recovery. Works like a charm. So I had this great idea that I set up iLo with the USB drive plugged in to the server. Then at the weekend, I connect in, using out logmein account, and shut down the server. Then I log in to iLo and boot to the USB drive, carry out the backup from the pre-Windows environment (which logmein obviously cannot do) and then when the backup is finished reboot the server back in to Windows...
So I got iLo setup, set up the port forwarding and tried a test from home .. Unfortunately, as soon as the USB drive starts to load Clonezilla Live I get the message saying that "You are not allowed to view anything past the POST screen" and the remote console boots me out.. So it seems like I will need a license to carry out the clonezilla backup from the pre-windows environment. I mistakenly thought that as long as I didn't boot in to Windows that the remote console would not boot me out but this was obviously wrong.
I may check out the costs of the iLo license. Anybody give me a ballpark of what it costs for a "perpetual" license for an ML350 server?
thanks,
J