HP ProLiant Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack Linux Edition User Guide Part Number 396352-00B June 2007 (Second Edition)
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Contents Overview..................................................................................................................................... 4 HP ProLiant Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack -Linux Introduction ............................................................... 4 Intelligent Networking Pack licenses............................................................................................................. 4 Linux operating system requirements .....................................
Overview In this section HP ProLiant Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack -Linux Introduction ............................................................. 4 Intelligent Networking Pack licenses ........................................................................................................... 4 Installing the INP rpm packages ................................................................................................................. 5 Installing an INP license ..............................
Linux operating system requirements To install and enable Virus Throttle on your server, you need the following: • • Two INP rpm packages (release 8.10 or higher) located on the HP website (http://www.hp.com) o hp-pel. Contains the HP ProLiant Essentials INP licensing utility (nalicense) o hp-vt. Contains the HP Virus Throttle for Linux application An INP license activation key, located on the back of the HP ProLiant Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack Kit Downloading files 1.
Argument Description -a Valid INP license activation key. The string must be entered in dash separated form, such as DE9DF-VHDL9-7SLR8-73LOS-OSM3K [-l ] Optional parameter specifying a location to write successful or error messages. -d Displays information about an INP license installed on your system. For example, /opt/hp/hp-pel/nalicense –d -h or --help Displays usage information.
Using Virus Throttle In this section How Virus Throttle works........................................................................................................................... 7 Starting Virus Throttle................................................................................................................................ 7 Configuring Virus Throttle parameters .........................................................................................................
Virus Throttle requires both the iptable_filter and ip_queue modules. If both modules are not installed on the system when Virus Throttle is started, an error message is displayed. Currently, only one application may register for the iptables QUEUE target. If another application has already registered for the QUEUE target, an error message is displayed. Configuring Virus Throttle parameters When you first install Virus Throttle the configuration parameters for the filter driver are set to the defaults.
The overall status, statistics, and delay queue information since the Virus Throttle filter driver was initialized is displayed. Status information • Virus-like activity is currently occurring. "Virus-like" activity is currently detected. • Virus-like activity has not occurred. No "virus-like" activity is currently detected and none has been detected since the filter driver was initialized. • Virus-like activity has occurred in the past.
Log and Event File All messages are logged to /var/opt/hp/hp-vt/hp-vt.log. To display the log file, run the following command in a separate window: # more /var/opt/hp/hp-vt/hp-vt.log Message format Log messages are displayed in the following format [TAG] SP [DATE] SP TEXT, where: • [TAG] is one of the following. Lines that do not begin with a tag are a continuation of the previous line. o ALERT_VLA_DETECTED. Indicates virus-like activity detected. o ALERT_VLA_STOPPED.
Troubleshooting In this section Potential solutions for INP configuration problems ...................................................................................... 11 Potential solutions for INP configuration problems This section provides possible solutions to problems that may occur during the configuration of INP features. The following tables provide steps to take before calling your service representative.
Problem Possible cause Possible solution All connection request packets are not being processed by Virus Throttle. A firewall rule may be intercepting the connection request and not allowing them to reach the Virus Throttle iptable rule (hp_vt iptable chain). Start Virus Throttle prior to loading any firewall rules.
Technical support In this section Before you contact HP............................................................................................................................. 13 HP contact information............................................................................................................................ 13 Free automated customer support services .................................................................................................
HP Worldwide Web Server • Navigate to a specific product, and then look for support information from the list of support resources at the HP support website (http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server). • For downloadable support software for HP Digital Networking Products, Hubs, Integrated Access Devices, Modems and ISDN, Adapters, Remote Access Concentrators/Servers, Software, and Switches, go to the HP software and drivers website (http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server).
Acronyms and abbreviations IP Internet Protocol LLDP Link Layer Discovery Protocol NDIS network driver interface specification SIM Systems Insight Manager SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol Acronyms and abbreviations 15
Index C configuration 8 I installing virus throttle 5 L license key, installing 5 log file 10 P ProLiant Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack 4 S support 13 T troubleshooting 11 V Virus Throttle, defined 7 Index 16
