I still think the system is OK and at least the serial connection method will work.
However, another workaround.
Keep ping "192.168.1.2" which is obviously an ILO of one of the blades.
Pull blade by blade out to get the answering blade.
Now use the front dongle
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and boot this blade. During boot the ILO message appears, press F8 and set a user and password.
Now point a browser to this address and log on.
From ILO screen you get the information about OA, similar to this:
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