Managing ProLiant servers with Linux HOWTO

Component To verify installation To remove

NIC Agents

$ rpm –q cmanic #rpm -e cmanic

Note:

Remove cmanic and hprsm before removing hpasm, because of driver

dependencies.

If concurrent access on the RPM database is attempted, the following messages can result:

• rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed

• cannot get shared lock on database

• rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed

2-4 Updating drivers and agents

The following section provides information on updating the HP ProLiant Management Software for

Linux. Note that these instructions are only appropriate when upgrading from software with a version

greater than 8.1.0. For information on transitioning from pre-8.1.0 versions, see “Transitioning from

hpasm, hprsm, and cmanic packages” on page 15.

RPM provides the -U option to upgrade a package. For example, to upgrade hp-health to a newer

version you could use the command:

# rpm -Uvh hp-health-<version>.<distribution>.<platform>.rpm

See the rpm manpage in your Linux distribution for more information:

$ man rpm

3 Customization

This section includes advanced topics on data center customization.

3-1 Configuration files

The ProLiant Management Agents Configuration file /opt/hp/hp-snmp-agents/cma.conf is shared by

all HP ProLiant Management Agents. Currently, exclude directives, taint directives, trap interface, trap

email notification configuration, and base socket number (used by cmaX) are supported. The agents

are capable of sending email notifications in addition to SNMP traps. The trapemail entries in

/opt/hp/hp-snmp-agents/cma.conf configure the email commands, which are then read by the Peers

software during their initialization.

The exclude directives allow customization of which agents to start automatically. Any drivers and

agents included on this line will not be started by the run level scripts.

The exclude entries can be modified using the /sbin/hpsnmpconfig command.

If trapemail entries are edited, the Peers software must be restarted before the configuration

modification is effective. The command to restart the SNMP agents is:

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

The syntax of the trapemail lines is:

trapemail mail_command