HP Insight Management Agents for Linux - Installation Guide and Release Notes - HP Integrity Servers with Linux (March 2010)

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. To check the HP Insight Management Agents software version, enter the following command:
#rpm -q hpima
The following is an example of the output that is returned from this command:
hpima-2.2-1.sles9
2. To update the HP Insight Management Agents software, follow the instructions in “Installing
HP Insight Management Agent Packages” (page 11) to obtain and install the latest version.
Reconfiguring
You can use the /etc/init.d/hpima reconfigure command at any time to reconfigure
HP Insight Management Agents previously installed.
To reconfigure the HP Insight Management Agents, enter /etc/init.d/hpima reconfigure,
and then press Enter.
During the reconfiguration process of the HP Insight Management Agent packages, an automated
search for SNMP configuration files on your system is performed. Depending on the data found
in the configuration files, a series of queries request you to supply either missing information or
change the current settings.
There are two types of reconfiguration queries as follows:
localhost The localhost is the server on which you have installed the
HP Insight Management Agents. The HP System
Management Homepage requires the data you provide at
the localhost queries to operate properly.
Remote Management Station(s) The Remote Management Station(s) installation queries
request you to provide community string data for a single
remote server, which is typically the HP Systems Insight
Manager Console. Community string data can also be used
by any other application. For a definition of community
strings, see “Concepts and Terms to Understand”
(page 11)“).
NOTE: If you provide blank response at any of the reconfiguration queries, it is interpreted as
no change to the current setting or to use an appropriate default value; you cannot proceed until
a response is provided.
When you have supplied the information solicited by the prompts, the SNMP daemon restarts
to obtain the new configuration settings you provided.
The HP Insight Management Agents are not running at this point in time. To start the HP Insight
Management Agents, enter /etc/init.d/hpima start. A process check of all the HP Insight
Management Agents as they come up. It will look like the following:
Start SNMP AgentX Intermediary 'hpimaX': (running) [ OK ]
Start Foundation Host Agent 'hpimahostd': [ OK ]
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