HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide (May 2009)

2 Installing HP Management Base
This chapter describes the installation procedures for HP Management Base.
Installation Requirements
A typical server installation usually includes the following items, and these items are required
to successfully install HP Management Base:
• An officially supported version, update, or errata kernel for:
— RHEL Advanced Server (AS) 2.1
— RHEL AS 3.0
— RHEL AS 4.0
— RHEL 5.0
— SLES 8.0
— SLES 9.0
— SLES 10.0
— SLES 11
RHEL AS 2.1 and SLES 8 on the following legacy entry-level HP 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, and rmmod from the modutils package
• objcopy and objdump from the binutils package
Installing HP Management Base
Follow these steps to install HP Management Base:
1. Obtain the latest hpmgmtbase software, which is delivered in the HP Integrity Essentials
Foundation Pack for Linux Support Pack, for your core Linux distribution from the HP
Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux website:
http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials
There is an RPM file provided for each supported Linux release. For example,
hpmgmtbase-2.9-11.sles10.ia64.rpm is the 2.9 version of hpmgmtbase compiled
for SLES10 and all updates.
2. As root, enter the following command, where xxxxx is the Linux distribution version:
# rpm -Uvh hpmgmtbase-xxxxx.ia64.rpm
The installation takes 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 (page 15).
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