Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Edition 5 Manufacturing Part Number: 5990-8577 E0804 U.S.A. © Copyright 2004 © Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved.
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Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Announcement 1 Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Announcement Hewlett-Packard has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 Update 3 for the Itanium® Processor (errata kernel 2.4.18-e.40, glibc 2.2.4-32.11) on HP Integrity servers. Use the HP Enablement Kit for Linux to prepare your server for operating system installation.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Support Note Contents Support Note Contents 1. “Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers” on page 5 2. “Operating System Installation” on page 6 3. “Firmware Updates” on page 8 4. “Manageability” on page 9 5. “Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network” on page 16 6. “Software for Writing to DVD+R/+RW Media” on page 17 7. “Known Problems” on page 18.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers Distributions Supported on HP Integrity Servers Hewlett-Packard has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 Update 3 (errata kernel 2.4.18-e.40, glibc 2.2.4-32.11) for the Itanium Processor on Integrity servers. You can order Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 at http://www.software.hp.com. The HP Enablement Kit for Linux ships with your system hardware.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Operating System Installation Operating System Installation Before installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on your Integrity server, use the HP Enablement Kit for Linux CD, which automates processes such as: • Configuration of storage controllers • Disk partitioning • Linux installation from distributor media (i.e.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Operating System Installation To install your operating system: 1. Boot the HP Enablement Kit for Linux CD using the instructions in the enablement kit CD booklet 2. Choose option 2 from the enablement kit menu 3. Complete the steps presented, including selecting a target disk 4. Insert the operating system CDs when prompted 5. Follow your operating system's instructions to complete installation.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Firmware Updates Firmware Updates Firmware Updates To determine your current firmware version, type "INFO FW" at the EFI Shell prompt. For firmware updates: 1. Go to http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/support.html. 2. Select “download drivers and software” 3. Enter your server model number in the “for” box and hit Enter. 4. Click firmware under the quick jump to downloads for... heading.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Manageability Manageability You can use tools such as HP Insight Manager 7 and HP Systems Insight Manager to remotely monitor system information on an Integrity server that has HP Insight Management Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1, System Management Web Agent, or Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) providers installed.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Manageability Manager 7 (IM7) or HP Systems Insight Manager gathers and organizes the raw agent information from the browser for display in reports, allowing you to monitor system use and troubleshoot problems. HP Insight Management Agents are available from the Linux link at http://www.software.hp.com. For more details on the SNMP protocol, see http://www.net-snmp.net.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Manageability Configuring HP Insight Management Agent Packages The installation process of the HP Insight Management Agent packages performs an automated search for SNMP configuration files on your system. Depending on the data found there, a series of prompts requests you to either supply missing information or gives you the opportunity to change current settings. Input the information requested.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Manageability (Re)starting the SNMP daemon, configured to support the HP Insight Management Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 Please read the License Agreement for this software at /opt/hp/hpima/hpima.license By installing this package, you are accepting the terms of the ‘License for HP Value Added Software’.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Manageability WBEM and WBEM Providers WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management) is a DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) standard that uses Internet technologies such as XML, HTTP, and SSL to manage systems. It allows management applications such as HP Systems Insight Manager to retrieve, monitor, and configure system information.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Manageability ( 2.4.18-e.0.26 custom #3 SMP Sun Sep 1 04:22:31 MDT 2002 ) Version: 2.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Manageability Manageability Updates For manageability updates: 1. Click Support and Drivers from the page at http://www.hp.com. 2. Under the “Support for your products” heading on the Support and Drivers page: a. Click the Download drivers and software radio button. b. Type the word Integrity followed by your server number in the “for product” text box. c. Press Enter. 3.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network To ensure you have the most current version of software, use the following instructions to obtain updates from Red Hat Network. Pre-installed software versions may not be up to date. 1. Install Red Hat on your system and reboot. 2. Login as root on the console. 3.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Software for Writing to DVD+R/+RW Media Software for Writing to DVD+R/+RW Media You can obtain open-source dvd+rw+tools for DVD+RW functionality on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v. 2.1 Update 3 at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/. These tools on Linux are primarily for data storage and exchange via DVD+R/+RW media. For the equivalent functionality via CD-R/RW media, use the cdrecord command.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Known Problems Known Problems 1. No support for uncertified .rpm packages. If you add uncertified .rpms to the operating system, it will not be supported by Red Hat. Red Hat supports only .rpms bundled in supported Linux distributions for Integrity servers and official Red Hat Updates for those distributions. HP supports the Linux software it distributes. 2. No support for systems with a recompiled kernel.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Known Problems b. Attach the USB mass storage device c. If usbview shows both the mass storage device and the USB keyboard under the same OHCI root hub, relocate the mass storage device to a different USB port d. Close usbview before using the mass storage device and do not reopen it or any other applications that use usbdevfs while using the device. 5. USB-to-PS2 adapter failures.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Known Problems image=vmlinuz-2.4.18-e.Nsmp label=linux initrd=initrd-2.4.18-e.Nsmp.img read-only root="LABEL=/" append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 hdd=ide-scsi" image=vmlinuz-2.4.18-e.N label=linux-up initrd=initrd-2.4.18-e.N.img read-only root="LABEL=/" append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 hdd=ide-scsi" ==== sample elilo.conf for mounting root partition by label ==== e.
Support Note for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.2.1 for the Itanium® Processor on HP Integrity Servers Known Problems c. When etc/fstab is configured to automatically NFS mount on the network accessed by the HP A7061A NIC referenced in Step b. Intialization of the HP A7061A NIC can take up to 30 seconds longer than the system startup script for networking reports. The network appears to be up but isn’t due to an issue with the tg3 driver.
