HP Insight Management Agents for Linux Installation Guide and Release Notes HP Integrity Servers with Linux HP Part Number: 5991-2731 Published: March 2010 Edition: 16
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Preface This document provides instructions for downloading and configuring HP Insight Management Agents on HP Integrity servers running Linux. As of this publication, these agents work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES). Based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HP Insight Management Agents allow you to remotely monitor configuration information and system status on your Integrity server from any SNMP browser.
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1 Overview The HP Insight Management Agents provide system status information that you can monitor your system using HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM). The System Management Homepage is software that provides an interface between the management agents and the manageability tools, organizing information from HP Insight Management Agents for display in a web page.
HP Insight Management Agents The HP Insight Management Agents package is made of multiple components that monitor various aspects of system health and inventory. These components and their functions are: Foundation Agents: Provide event monitoring, installed software inventory, system utilization information, alarm thresholds.
2 Installing and Configuring HP Insight Management Agents Follow the directions in this section to install, configure, and update HP Insight Management Agents. Concepts and Terms to Understand • SNMP operations - HP Insight Management Agents are based on the SNMP protocol, which includes the GET, SET, and TRAP operations defined as follows: — GET operations retrieve information from the system on which you installed HP Insight Management Agents.
During the process of installing the HP Insight Management Agent packages, default values are used to create an initial configuration. These default configuration values are stored in /etc/ snmp/snmpd.conf.
Configuring Polling Intervals You can configure the HP Insight Management Agents polling intervals to accommodate your data collection needs. However, HP recommends that you use the default polling intervals unless you are performance tuning your system. You can list the process status table for all of the agents delivered with HP Insight Management Agent using the following command: # /etc/init.d/hpima status hpimaX (pid 29032) is running... hpimahostd (pid 29547) is running...
Obtaining the Community String You can obtain the rwcommunity string by viewing the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf on your system and finding the line similar to the following: rwcommunity lYABuwPNFgmVCSkH 127.0.0.1 In this example, the rwcommunity string is set to lYABuwPNFgmVCSkH. Viewing a Polling Interval You can view the current polling interval for an agent with the snmpget command as follows: # snmpget -mALL -v1 -c localhost .
NOTE: The HPIMA_POLLFREQ is only available on HP Integrity systems running Linux. You can validate any changed agent polling intervals by using the snmpget command as described in “Viewing a Polling Interval” (page 14). NOTE: The snmpget/snmpset commands fail if the corresponding hardware is not present on the system. For example, if the system has no SCSI devices the hpimascsid process can not run so attempting to get or set the cpqScsiOsCommonPollFreq.0 agent fails.
3 Reconfiguring HP Insight Management Agents If your system came with pre-installed HP Insight Management Agents, you need to reconfigure them to customize settings that require user-specific information, such as IP addresses and community strings. Before Reconfiguring Before beginning to reconfigure pre-installed HP Insight Management Agents software, you should check the version of your current software, and update your software to the latest version. 1.
Start Foundation Threshold Agent 'hpimathreshd': [ OK ] Start Server Health Agent 'hpimahealthd': [ OK ] Start Server Standard Equipment Agent 'hpimastdeqd': [ OK ] Start Storage Event Agent 'hpimaeventd': [ OK ] Start Storage Intelligent Disk Array Agent 'hpimaidad': [ OK ] Start Storage Serial Attached SCSI Agent 'hpimasasd': [ OK ] Start Storage SCSI Agent 'hpimascsid': [ OK ] Start Storage Fibre Channel Agent 'hpimafcad': [ OK ] Start NIC Agent 'hpimanicd': [ OK ] Start Event E0 Trap Generator 'hpimaE0t
4 Installing and Configuring HP System Management Homepage Follow the directions in this section to install, configure, and update the HP System Management Homepage. Installing or Updating the HP System Management Homepage The HP System Management Homepage is installed on your system using the software installer, which is located on the HP Support Pack media of the HP Insight Foundation Suite for Integrity with Linux .
5 Troubleshooting This section provides instructions for troubleshooting basic agent installation and configuration issues. The following assumptions have been made to develop this information: □ □ □ □ □ □ □ The agents are not responding to inquiries from HP SIM. You are a Linux system administrator with root privilege. No errors were issued during agent installation and initial configuration. The net-snmp-utils RPM, part of the agent installation tar archive, was installed on the managed system.
Shutting Down iptables WARNING! Inform your network administrator before you stop a running firewall, even momentarily. Disabling the firewall creates a potential security breach, and you must weigh this threat against the benefits of live troubleshooting. 1. Enter /etc/init.d/iptables status and press Enter to see if the firewall software is installed and running.
NOTE: The rocommunity ROlocal string, if it exists, must come before the rwcommunity community string in the file. 3. Find the directives for remote host community strings: rocommunity ROremote remote host name rwcommunity RWremote remote host name You should see a pair of lines for both the ROremote and the RWremote management stations you specified during agent installation. Ensure the community string values of ROremote and RWremote are what you specified during agent configuration.
Turning on AgentX master support. NET-SNMP version Wait at least ten seconds to ensure the daemon continues to run. Be aware that the next step might cause output to appear in this window. Examine the output for errors if the operations in the next step fail. 5. On the system that has the HP Insight Management Agents installed, enter: snmpget -Oqs -v1 -c public localhost sysDescr.
8. If, while running RHEL, the values for PCI I/O slot numbers appear to be invalid (for example, PCI devices are not mapped to the physical slots in which they are installed), check the /var/log/hp/hpima file for the following message: Warning: hpima version does not support multi-domain PCI If you find this message, you must reset your ACPI configuration value to single-pci-domain.
6 Release Notes This section contains important information about known issues for this release of the HP Insight Management Agents, which might affect the installation, configuration, or use of the agents.
3. Reset the BMC: MP> CM MP:CM> RB Do you want to reset the BMC? (Y/[N]): Y -> BMC was issued a reset. 4. Startup the hpima services: Shell> /etc/init.d/hpmgmtbase start Shell> /etc/init.d/hpima start Shell> /etc/init.
