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

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12 Installing the CIM Extension for Sun Solaris
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About the CIM Extension for Solaris” on page 175
• ”Prerequisites” on page 175
• ”Verifying SNIA HBA API Support” on page 176
• ”Installing the CIM Extension” on page 177
• ”Starting the CIM Extension Manually” on page 178
• ”Finding the Status of the CIM Extension” on page 182
• ”Stopping the CIM Extension” on page 183
• ”Rolling Over the Logs” on page 183
• ”Removing the CIM Extension from Solaris” on page 183
Make sure you have reviewed Table 2 on page 1 to ensure you are at the correct step.
About the CIM Extension for Solaris
The CIM Extension for Sun Solaris 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
The management server requires certain packages and patches. The installation checks for the
required packages listed in the following section and verifies that Solaris 8 has been installed.
You need the core set SUNWCreq. If you have only the core environment packages installed, install
the following manually in the exact order:
1. SUNWlibC - Sun Workshop Compilers Bundled libC
2. SUNWlibCf - SunSoft WorkShop Bundled libC (cfront version)
3. SUNWlibCx - Sun Workshop Bundled 64-bit libC