Managing ProLiant servers with Linux HOWTO

2 Manual Installation

This section describes how to install, upgrade, and remove the packages for HP System Health

Application and Command Line Utilities (hp-health) and Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP

ProLiant Systems (hp-snmp-agents). The latest versions of this software can be downloaded from

http://hp.com/go/proliantlinux.

2-1 Prerequisite: Installing package dependencies

The software described in this HOWTO is distributed in standard package formats that provide

prerequisite information internally. If you attempt to install a component that does not have its

prerequisites fulfilled, the installation will abort and you will be given a list of missing prerequisites.

Any prerequisite packages not described in this HOWTO should have been provided as part of your

operating system installation media. Consult the documentation provided by your Linux distribution for

information on locating and installing the requested software, and then retry the installation.

For full functionality, the hpsmh package requires the following components:

• SNMP stack of the Linux distribution

• Java Virtual Machine Version 1.4.1 (or greater)

Note:

If you have installed earlier versions of ProLiant manageability software,

such as the HP System Health Application and Insight Management Agents

(hpasm), the HP Lights-Out Driver and Agents (hprsm), and NIC Agents

(cmanic), see “Transitioning from hpasm, hprsm, and cmanic packages” on

page 15.

2-1-1 Installing the HP OpenIPMI Driver (hp-OpenIPMI)

The Linux kernel .config file must have IPMI support enabled for rebuilds. This is not the default on

some older Linux distributions. If a different Linux kernel, such as an errata kernel, is used in place of

the supported version of Linux, the standard Linux kernel build environment must be installed. Error

messages are displayed during the rebuild process indicating which Linux packages are missing.

If a previous version of the hp-OpenIPMI package has been installed, it must be removed before this

package can be installed. To remove the previous version and any packages dependent on it, enter

the following:

# /etc/init.d/hp-snmp-agents stop

# /etc/init.d/hp-health stop

# rpm -e hp-OpenIPMI

To install hp-OpenIPMI RPM, enter the following:

# rpm –Uvh hp-OpenIPMI-<version>.rpm

Upon startup, the hp-health service will detect and use the hp-OpenIPMI drivers instead of the

distribution-provided drivers.

For more information about these components, see the online documentation by entering:

$ man hp-OpenIPMI