HP Insight Management Agents 8.40 Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux HOW TO Whitepaper

Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux – HOWTO v8.40

2-1 Prerequisite: Installing package dependencies

The software described in this HOWTO is distributed in standard package formats that provide prerequisite

information internally. If you attempt to install a component that does not have its prerequisites fulfilled, the

installation will abort and you will be given a list of missing prerequisites. Any prerequisite packages not

described in this HOWTO should have been provided as part of your operating system installation media.

Consult the documentation provided by your Linux distribution for information on locating and installing the

requested software, and then retry the installation.

For full functionality, the hpsmh package requires the following components:

• SNMP stack of the Linux distribution

• Java Virtual Machine Version 1 .4.1 (or greater)

Note:

If you have installed earlier versions of ProLiant manageability software such

as the HP System Health Application and Insight Management Agents

(hpasm), the HP Lights-Out Driver and Agents (hprsm), and the NIC Agents

(cmanic), see “Transitioning from hpasm, hprsm and cmanic packages” on

Page 18.

2-1-1 Installing the HP OpenIPMI Driver (hp-OpenIPMI)

The Linux kernel .config file must have IPMI support enabled for rebuilds. This is not the default on some

older Linux distributions. If a different Linux kernel, such as an errata kernel, is used in place of the supported

version of Linux, the standard Linux kernel build environment must be installed. Error messages are displayed

during the rebuild process indicating which Linux packages are missing.

If a previous version of the hp-OpenIPMI package has been installed, it must be removed before this package

can be installed. To remove the previous version and any packages dependent on it, enter the following:

# /etc/init.d/hp-snmp-agents stop

# /etc/init.d/hp-health stop

# rpm –e hp-OpenIPMI

To install hp-OpenIPMI RPM, enter the following:

# rpm –Uvh hp-OpenIPMI-<version>.rpm

Upon startup, the hp-health service will detect and use the hp-OpenIPMI drivers instead of the distribution-

provided drivers.

For more information about these components, see the online documentation by entering:

$ man hp-OpenIPMI

2-1-2 Installing the HP System Health Application and

Command Line Utilities (hp-health)

To install hp-health, login as the root user, and then enter: