Managing ProLiant servers with Linux HOWTO

hp-health Version 8.1.0 includes three applications (listed in Table 1). One of these modules is

automatically selected at startup depending on the HP ProLiant Advanced System Management

hardware available.

Note:

To determine the type of HP ProLiant Advanced System Management

hardware installed, check the ProLiant server specifications located on

www.hp.com.

Table 1: hp-health Version 8.1.0 applications

Application Details

hpasmd

Location /opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmd

Description The hpasmd application automatically loads on ProLiant servers that have either the ASM or the

legacy iLO hardware.

hpasmxld*

Location /opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmxld

Description The hpasmxld application automatically loads on ProLiant servers that have the HP Integrated

Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) management controller and the hp-OpenIPMI package is installed. The iLO 2

management controller contains an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Version 2.0

Base Management Controller (BMC) that replaces the operating system-based software

management functionality provided by the legacy hpasmd application. The hpasmxld application

is also dependent on the hp-OpenIPMI package. The hp-OpenIPMI package is a GNU GENERAL

PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL) high performance enhancement of the IPMI device drivers that ship with

standard Linux distributions. The hpasmxld package is automatically selected by the hpasm

initialization script (/etc/init.d/hp-health) if the hp-OpenIPMI package is installed and the iLO 2

management controller is present.

The corresponding hp-OpenIPMI package for ProLiant servers is available for download for select

distributions at:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Product.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=13

5&prodTypeId=15351&prodCatId=241435.

hpasmlited*

Location /opt/hp/hp-health/bin/hpasmlited

Description The hpasmlited application automatically loads on HP ProLiant servers with the iLO 2

management controller and the hp-OpenIPMI package not installed. The hpasmlited application is

designed to work with the standard IPMI device drivers that ship with the Linux distributions. The

IPMI device drivers that ship with the Linux distributions are not as efficient as the hp-OpenIPMI

drivers due to the constant polling method used for detecting system management events. The

hpasmlited application has the ability to log raw IPMI messages (as does the hp-OpenIPMI

package) to the /var/log/messages file to assist with debugging IPMI BMC integration issues.

* The hpasmxld application is more efficient than the hpasmlited application as a result of leveraging the high performance

hp-OpenIPMI package, which includes support for IPMI 2.0 OEM message channels and messages.

Another source of information includes the following man pages provided with the hp-health package:

• hp-health

• hpasmcli

• hpuid

• hplog

• hpbootcfg