HP Insight Management Agents 8.70 Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux HOW TO

Table 1 hp-health applications (continued)
DetailsApplication
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&prodTypeId=15351&prodCatId=241435
Description
hpasmlited*
/opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmlitedLocation
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.
Description
hpasmpld
/opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmpldLocation
The hpasmpld application automatically loads on supported 100 series HP ProLiant servers (=G6)
and 100 series G7 servers are pre-loaded with iLO 3. So, the hpasmlited application automatically
loads on HP ProLiant servers that have an Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) management controller if
the hpilo driver is installed or the distribution provides it. If there is no hpilo driver, the hp-OpenIPMI
package is NOT installed and the distribution provided IPMI drivers DO NOT have the OEM message
channel support.
Description
* 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: “Controller, health-daemon, and kernel driver combinations” details the management
controller, health-daemon and kernel driver combinations.
Table 2 Controller, health-daemon, and kernel driver combinations
kernel driverdev filedaemon
hpilo module
available?
Hp-OpenIPMI
installed?
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Kernel
Version
(uname -r)
Lights-Out
Controller
NoneNAhpasmdNANANANAiLO
distro IPMI/dev/ipmi0hpasmlitedNANoNo<2.6.30iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
hp-OpenIPMI/dev/ipmi1hpasmxldNAYesNo<2.6.30iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
distro IPMI/dev/ipmi1hpasmxldNANANA>=2.6.30iLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
distro IPMI/dev/ipmi0hpasmlitedNANo< Update 5.5NAiLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
hp-OpenIPMI/dev/ipmi1hpasmxldNAYes< Update 5.5NAiLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
distro IPMI/dev/ipmi1hpasmxldNANA>= Update
5.5
NAiLO+embedded
health/iLO 2
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