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

Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux – HOWTO v8.40

You can also manipulate the /opt/hp/hp-snmp-agents/cma.conf file which contains one or more exclude

directives. Any string after the exclude keyword is interpreted as an agent name that should not be started.

Examples include:

exclude cmahealthd

exclude cmastdeqd

These two lines exclude two agents from the startup: the Health Agent (cmahealthd) and the Standard Equipment

Agent (cmastdeqd).

3-2 Starting and stopping agents and services

After the initial installation, both the ProLiant Management Agents and the Health Monitor are loaded. Upon

a reboot, the initscripts /etc/init.d/hp-health and /etc/init.d/hp-snmp-agents reload the Health Monitor and

SNMP agents and drivers, even if a different kernel was used for the new run.

To start and stop the hp-health service at runtime, type:

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

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

# service hp-health stop

# service hp-health start

To start and stop the hp-snmp-agents at runtime, type:

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

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

# service hp-snmp-agents stop

# service hp-snmp-agents start

3-3 Parameters

This section lists parameters for various agents and services.

Table 12 includes the command line arguments that can be passed to the NIC agents (cmanicd) from the

/opt/hp/hp-snmp-agents/nic/etc/cmanicd script.

Table 12: Parameters for NIC agents

Parameter Description

-p poll_time This parameter specifies the number of seconds between data caching and poll intervals. NIC

drivers are only queried when a request comes in and the cached information is older than the

specified poll interval. The default value is 20 seconds. The minimum poll time is 10 seconds.

-s set_state This parameter specifies whether SNMP set commands are allowed for this agent. A set_state of OK

(default) means that SNMP set commands are allowed. A set_state of NOT_OK means that SNMP set

commands are not allowed.

-t trap_state This parameter specifies whether the NIC Agent is allowed to send traps or not. A trap_state of OK

(default) indicates the NIC Agent can send SNMP traps. A trap_state of NOT_OK means that the NIC