HP Insight Management Agents 9.10 Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux HOW TO Whitepaper

2 Manual installation
This section describes how to install, upgrade, and remove HP System Health Application and
Command Line Utilities (hp-health) and Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP ProLiant
Systems (hp-snmp-agents) packages. The latest versions of this software can be downloaded from
http://hp.com/go/proliantlinux
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 the NIC Agents (cmanic), see “Transitioning from hpasm, hprsm and
cmanic packages” on Page 18.
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 –ivh 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
Installing the HP System Health application and Command Line utilities (hp-health)
To install hp-health, login as the root user, and then enter:
# rpm –ivh hp-health-<version>.<distribution>.<platform>.rpm
For more information about this component, see the online documentation by entering:
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