HP Insight Management Agents 9.20 Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux HOW TO Whitepaper

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Contents

1 Software architecture..................................................................................5

HP System Health Application and Command Line Utilities(hp-health) .............................................5

Health Monitor....................................................................................................................7

System temperature monitoring..........................................................................................7

System fan monitoring......................................................................................................8

Monitoring the system fault–tolerant power supply...............................................................8

ECC memory monitoring and advanced memory protection..................................................8

Automatic server recovery................................................................................................9

Console messages...............................................................................................................9

HP Integrated Management Logging Utility (hplog)...................................................................9

HP Unique Identifier Utility (hpuid).......................................................................................10

HP Management CLI (hpasmcli)...........................................................................................10

HP ProLiant Boot Configuration utility (hpbootcfg)...................................................................10

Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP ProLiant Systems (hp-snmp-agents).................................11

Server Agent.....................................................................................................................11

Storage Agent...................................................................................................................12

NIC Agent (cmanic)...........................................................................................................14

Performance Agent (cmaperfd)............................................................................................14

Data Collection Agent........................................................................................................14

Lights-Out Agent................................................................................................................14

Using the HP ProLiant BL Rack Upgrade utility........................................................................14

HP OpenIPMI Driver (hp-OpenIPMI)..........................................................................................15

HP ProLiant Channel Interface Device Driver for iLO/iLO 2/iLO 3/iLO 4 (hp-ilo).............................16

HP System Management Homepage (hpsmh).............................................................................16

HP System Management Homepage Templates (hp-smh-templates)................................................16

HP Systems Insight Manager....................................................................................................16

2 Manual installation...................................................................................18

Prerequisite: Installing package dependencies............................................................................18

Installing the HP OpenIPMI driver (hp-OpenIPMI)....................................................................18

Installing the HP System Health application and command-line utilities (hp-health)......................18

Installing the HP ProLiant Channel Interface device driver for iLO/iLO 2/iLO 3/iLO 4 (hp-ilo).......19

Installing the Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP ProLiant Systems..................................19

Uninstalling drivers and agents.................................................................................................19

Transitioning from hpasm, hprsm, and cmanic packages..............................................................20

Updating drivers and agents....................................................................................................20

3 Customization..........................................................................................22

Configuration files..................................................................................................................22

Starting and stopping agents and services.................................................................................23

Parameters.............................................................................................................................23

4 Support and other resources......................................................................25

Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................25

How to contact HP..................................................................................................................25

Registering for software technical support and update service.......................................................25

How to use your software technical support and update service...............................................25

Warranty information.........................................................................................................25

HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................26

Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................26

New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................26

Related information.................................................................................................................26

Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................26

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