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

Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux – HOWTO v8.40
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Channel Interface Device Driver for iLO/iLO 2 (hp-ilo) package to provide secure remote management of the
server including IML management and graphical remote console. The hp-health Version 8.4.0 includes four
applications (listed in Table 1). One of these modules is automatically selected at startup depending on the HP
ProLiant Advanced System Management hardware available and the base packages installed.
Note:
To determine the type of HP ProLiant Advanced System Management
hardware installed, check the ProLiant server specifications located on
http://www.hp.com.
Table 1: hp-health Version 8.4.0 applications
Application Details
hpasmd
Location /opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmd
Description The hpasmd application automatically loads on ProLiant servers that have either the ASM or the legacy iLO
hardware
hpasmxld*
Location /opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmxld
Description The hpasmxld application automatically loads on ProLiant servers that have the HP Integrated Lights-Out 2
(iLO 2) management controller and the necessary IPMI driver support. The iLO 2 management controller
contains an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Version 2.0 Base Management Controller
(BMC) that replaces the operating system-based software management functionality provided by the
legacy hpasmd application.
The hpasmxld application is not supported on ProLiant servers that have Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3)
management controller.
The corresponding hp-OpenIPMI package for ProLiant servers is available for download for select distributions
at:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Product.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=135&prodTypeI
d=15351&prodCatId=241435
hpasmlited*
Location /opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmlited
Description The hpasmlited application automatically loads on HP ProLiant servers with the iLO 2 management
controller and older versions of the in-distro OpenIPMI drivers. The hpasmlited application has the ability to
log raw IPMI messages (as does the hp-OpenIPMI package) to the /var/log/messages file to assist with
debugging IPMI BMC integration issues.
The hpasmlited package also loads on HP ProLiant servers that have an Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3)
management controller and hpilo.ko driver, if the hpilo.ko driver is available. If the hpilo.ko driver is not
available, the distribution is provided on the ipmi drivers that do not support the message channels.
hpasmpld
Location /opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmpld
Description The hpasmpld application automatically loads on supported 100 series HP ProLiant servers
(>=G6). hpasmpld relies upon distribution-provided IPMI drivers. hp-OpenIPMI, which provides an