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

Table 1 hp-health applications (continued)
DetailsApplication
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
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
Description
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 iLO 3/Integrated Lights-Out
4 (iLO 4) 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
/opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmpldLocation
The hpasmpld application is automatically loaded on supported 100 series HP ProLiant servers (=G6).
The 100 series G7/Gen8 servers are preloaded with iLO 3/ iLO 4. So, the hpasmpld application is
Description
automatically loaded on HP ProLiant servers that have an Integrated iLO 3/iLO 4 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.
* The hpasmxld application is more efficient than the hpasmlited application as a result of leveraging the
high-performance hp-OpenIPMI package. This package 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
distro IPMI/dev/ipmi0hpasmlitedNoNANANAiLO 3
6 Software architecture