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

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Contents

1 Software architecture..................................................................................5

System Health application and Command Line utilities(hp-health) ...................................................5

Health monitor....................................................................................................................7

System temperature monitoring..........................................................................................7

System fan monitoring......................................................................................................8

Monitoring the system fault tolerant power supply................................................................8

ECC memory monitoring and advanced memory protection..................................................8

Automatic server recovery................................................................................................9

Console messages...............................................................................................................9

HP Integrated Management Logging Utility (hplog)...................................................................9

HP Unique Identifier Utility (hpuid).......................................................................................10

HP management CLI (hpasmcli)...........................................................................................10

hp ProLiant boot configuration utility (hpbootcfg)....................................................................10

Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP ProLiant (hp-snmp-agents).............................................11

Server agent.....................................................................................................................11

Storage agent...................................................................................................................12

NIC agent (cmanic)...........................................................................................................13

Performance agent (cmaperfd).............................................................................................14

Data Collection agent.........................................................................................................14

Lights-Out agent.................................................................................................................14

Using the HP ProLiant BL Rack Upgrade utility........................................................................14

HP OpenIPMI Driver (hp-OpenIPMI)..........................................................................................15

HP ProLiant Channel Interface Device Driver for iLO/iLO 2/iLO 3/iLO 4(hp-ilo)..............................15

HP System Management Homepage (hpsmh).............................................................................16

HP System Management Homepage templates (hp-smh-templates).................................................16

Systems Insight Manager.........................................................................................................16

2 Manual installation...................................................................................17

Prerequisite: Installing package dependencies............................................................................17

Installing the HP OpenIPMI driver (hp-OpenIPMI)....................................................................17

Installing the HP System Health application and Command Line utilities (hp-health).....................17

Installing the HP ProLiant Channel Interface device driver for iLO/iLO 2/iLO 3/iLO 4(hp-ilo)........18

Installing the Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP ProLiant Systems..................................18

Uninstalling drivers and agents.................................................................................................18

Transitioning from hpasm, hprsm, and cmanic packages..............................................................19

Updating drivers and agents....................................................................................................19

3 Customization..........................................................................................21

Configuration files..................................................................................................................21

Starting and stopping agents and services.................................................................................22

Parameters.............................................................................................................................22

Support and other resources.........................................................................24

Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................24

How to contact HP..................................................................................................................24

Registering for software technical support and update service.......................................................24

How to use your software technical support and update service...............................................24

Warranty information.........................................................................................................24

HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................25

Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................25

New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................25

Related information.................................................................................................................25

Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................25

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