HP Storage Essentials V5.00.01 installation guide (T4283-96011, January 2006)

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8 Installing the CIM Extension for SUSE and Red Hat
Linux
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About the CIM Extension for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server and SUSE Linux” on page 139
• ”Prerequisites” on page 139
• ”Verifying SNIA HBA API Support” on page 140
• ”Installing the CIM Extension” on page 141
• ”Starting the CIM Extension Manually” on page 141
• ”Finding the Status of the CIM Extension” on page 145
• ”Stopping the CIM Extension” on page 146
• ”Rolling Over the Logs” on page 146
• ”Removing the CIM Extension from Red Hat or SUSE Linux” on page 146
IMPORTANT: Make sure you have reviewed the table, Table 2 on page 1 in the Overview chapter
to ensure you are at the correct step.
About the CIM Extension for Red Hat
Linux Advanced Server and SUSE Linux
The CIM Extension for Red Hat and SUSE Linux gathers information from the operating system and
host bus adapters. It then makes the information available to the management server.
IMPORTANT: Install the CIM Extension on each host you want the management server to manage.
The CIM Extension communicates with an HBA by using the Host Bus Adapter Application
Programming Interface (HBAAPI) created by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). The
management server only supports communication with HBAs that are compliant with the HBAAPI.
For more information about the HBAAPI, see the following Web page at the SNIA Web site:
http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/hba_api/
Prerequisites
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.0 Update 2
(may just be i386.rpm on certain customer configurations)
requires glibc-2.3.2-95.20.i686.rpm (update2 CD2)
requires laus-0.1-54RHEL3.i386.rpm (update2 CD2)
requires compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128.i386.rpm (update2 CD3)
requires libgcc-3.2.3-34.i386.rpm (update2 CD2)