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

Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux – HOWTO v8.40

If you have any local customizations to the /etc/hpasmrc file, save a copy

of that file before removing the hpasm component. After installing hp-

snmp-agents, you can make the same modifications to the /etc/hp-snmp-

agents.conf file.

To determine if these components are loaded, enter the command listed in the To verify installation column

in Table 11. To remove the component, enter the command shown in the To remove column.

Table 11: Loaded components

Component To verify installation To remove

HP System Health Application and Insight

Management Agents

$ rpm –q hpasm # rpm –e hpasm

HP Lights-Out Drivers and Agents $ rpm –q hprsm # rpm –e hprsm

HP OpenIPMI Device Driver $ rpm –q hp-OpenIPMI # rpm –e hp-OpenIPMI

NIC Agents $ rpm –q cmanic # rpm –e cmanic

Note:

Remove cmanic and hprsm components before removing hpasm because of

driver dependencies.

If concurrent access on the RPM database is attempted, the following messages can result:

• rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed

• cannot get shared lock on database

• rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed

2-4 Updating drivers and agents

The following section provides information on updating the HP ProLiant Management Software for Linux. Note

that these instructions are only appropriate when upgrading from software with a version greater than 8.1.0.

For information on transitioning from pre-8.1.0 versions, see “Transitioning from hpasm, hprsm, and cmanic

packages” on page 15.

RPM provides the -U option to upgrade a package. For example, to upgrade hp-health to a newer version you

could use the command:

# rpm –Uvh hp-health-<ver>.<dist>.<platform>.rpm

See the rpm man page in your Linux distribution for more information:

$ man rpm

3 Customization

This section includes advanced topics on data center customization.