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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alternate set of IPMI drivers, provides no additional benefit on this class of severs. hp-OpenIPMI is
neither tested nor supported by HP on 100 series ProLiants.
* The hpasmxld application is more efficient than the hpasmlited application as a result of leveraging the high performance hp-
OpenIPMI package, which includes support for IPMI 2.0 OEM message channels and messages.
Table 2 details the management controller, health-daemon and kernel driver combinations.
Table 2: Controller, health-daemon, and kernel driver combinations
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Controller
Kernel
Version
(uname -r)
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Hp-
OpenIPMI
installed?
hpilo
module
available?
daemon dev file kernel driver
iLO NA NA NA NA hpasmd NA None
iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
<2.6.30 No No NA hpasmlited /dev/ipmi0 distro IPMI
iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
<2.6.30 No Yes NA hpasmxld /dev/ipmi1 hp-OpenIPMI
iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
>=2.6.30 NA NA NA hpasmxld /dev/ipmi1 distro IPMI
iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
NA < Update 5.5 No NA hpasmlited /dev/ipmi0 distro IPMI
iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
NA < Update 5.5 Yes NA hpasmxld /dev/ipmi1 hp-OpenIPMI
iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
NA >= Update
5.5
NA NA hpasmxld /dev/ipmi1 distro IPMI
iLO 3 NA NA NA No hpasmlited /dev/ipmi0 distro IPMI
iLO 3 NA NA NA Yes hpasmlited /dev/hpilo hpilo
Another source of information includes the following man pages provided with the hp-health package:
• hp-health
• hpasmcli
• hpuid
• hplog
• hpbootcfg
• hp_mgmt_install
These man pages include detailed information on error messages and possible action that the administrator can
take.
Additional information about the Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP ProLiant Systems is available at the
following locations:
• http://www.hp.com/servers/manage
• http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/agents.html
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