HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide (May 2006)

2 Installing hpmgmtbase
This chapter describes the installation procedures for hpmgtbase.
Installation Prerequisites
A typical server installation usually includes these items needed by hpmgmtbase will not install without these
items.
• An officially supported version, update, or errata kernel for
RedHat Advanced Server 2.1•
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server (AS) 3.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server (AS) 4.0
• SuSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8.0
• SuSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.0
RedHat AS 2.1 and SLES 8 are only supported on the following legacy entry-level Integrity servers:
• rx2600 and rx6000
• rx5670
• rpm, the RPM package manager
• bash, along with many common shell utilities, including the following:
awk•
• cut
• grep
• ls
• insmod/modprobe/depmod/rmmod from the modutils package
• objcopy and objdump from the binutils package
Installing the hpmgmtbase Software
Follow these steps to install hpmgmtbase:
1. Obtain the latest hpmgmtbase for your core distribution. There is one provided for each major vendor
release. For example, hpmgmtbase1.8-1.rhel3.ia64.rpm is the 1.8 version of hpmgmtbase
compiled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 3 and all updates.
2. As root, run the following command:
# rpm -Uvh hpmgmtbase-xxxxx.ia64.rpm
where xxxxx is the Linux distribution version.
The installation will take approximately 30 seconds as the contents of the SDRR are read and cached
for future use.
3. Run the hpbmc command with no arguments. If the installation encounters no errors, you should see a
summary of your platform (model name, serial numbers, firmware revisions, IP addresses).
If errors occur, see Chapter 4.
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