Linux best practices using HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) and Software Delivery Repository (SDR)

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If you want to install the health agents and have them report to an SNMP console, such as HP System Insight Manager
(HP SIM), you should install the following SPP components:
• System Health Application and Command Line Utilities (hp-health) package: hp-health collects and monitors
important operational data on ProLiant servers and blade servers. Contained within the hp-health package are the
following components:
– Health Monitor - a utility for logging messages to the IML when an Automatic Server Recovery (ASR) event occurs.
– HP Integrated Management Logging (IML) utility (hplog) – a utility for recording messages in the IML.
– HP Unique Identifier utility (hpuid) - a scriptable command line tool for managing and monitoring ProLiant servers
and blade servers through the system health monitor daemon (hpasmd or hpasmxld).
– HP ProLiant Boot Configuration Utility (hpbootcfg) - an application to set which device to boot from on the next
boot of the system. This can be a permanent change or a "one time" boot change.
– HP Management Command Line Interface (hpasmcli) - a scriptable command line interface for interacting with the
hpasm management daemons.
• Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP ProLiant Systems (hp-snmp-agents): a collection of SNMP protocol based
agents and tools that enable monitoring of fans, power supplies, temperature sensors and other management events
through SNMP. It also provides the following:
– Server Agents (consist of Server Peer Agent, Host OS Agent, Threshold Agent, Standard Equipment Agent, and
System Health Agent)
– Storage Agent (consists of IDA, IDE, SCSI, SAS, and FCA Agents, and Event Agent)
– Network Agent
• System Management Homepage (hpsmh): a web-based interface that aggregates and displays server data for single
server management.
• HP System Management Homepage Templates for Linux (hp-smh-templates): contains the System Management
Homepage templates for server, management processor, NIC, and storage subsystems. The templates are a
collection of html, javascript and php files that act as a GUI to display much of the SNMP data that the subsystem
agents provide. To serve the pages to the browser, you must also install the hp-snmp-agents package and the hpsmh
package.
• HP Agentless Management Service (hp-ams): HP ProLiant Gen8 servers include the HP iLO 4 management processor,
which is the foundation of HP Agentless Management. With the iLO 4 management processor capabilities, you can
monitor and manage core hardware without SNMP agents.
hp-ams furnishes the iLO 4 management processor with OS-specific information, bringing the reporting on par with
hp-health and hp-snmp-agents.
Without hp-ams, the iLO 4 management processor provides hardware health reporting that you can view on the
System Management Homepage.
For details on managing ProLiant servers and blade servers in a Linux environment, see the following resources:
• HP Insight Management Agents 8.70 Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux HOWTO
• Linux Best Management Practices whitepaper
For details on Gen8 Agentless Management, see the following resources:
• The HP iLO4 product page at www.hp.com/go/iLO
• HP ProLiant Gen8 Agentless Management Overview
• Linux Best Management Practices whitepaper
• HP iLO Management Engine technologies technology brief
• HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management Overview technology brief
Utilities
The SPP includes the following utilities that allow you to maximize the features of your server:
• cpqacuxe: A utility for configuring HP Smart Array controllers used by the System Management Homepage (hpsmh).
• hponcfg: A command line utility for configuring iLO from within the OS without requiring a server reboot.