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Deploying the HP WBEM Providers to single servers with a VSphere Client, WBEM Providers

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NOTE: If you see an error similar to the following, recopy the files to the /var/log/vmware directory, ensure the WBEM Providers are not already loaded, and then attempt to re-install the WBEM Providers. [VibDownloadError] ('hp-smx-provider-500.02.10.70.51-434156.vib', '', "[Errno 4] IOError:

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NOTE:
If you see an error similar to the following, recopy the files to the
/var/log/vmware
directory, ensure the WBEM Providers are not already loaded, and then attempt to re-install the
WBEM Providers.
[VibDownloadError]
('hp-smx-provider-500.02.10.70.51-434156.vib', '', "[Errno 4]
IOError:<urlopen error [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/log/vmware/hp-smx -provider-500.02.10.70.51-434156.vib>
”
url = hp-smx-provider-500.02.10.70.51-434156.vib
For more details, view the log file.
Deploying the HP WBEM Providers to single servers with a VSphere Client
1.
Launch the VSphere Client, and then log in to the server to which you want to deploy the
WBEM Providers.
2.
Click the
Configuration
tab.
3.
Under
Software
, click
Security Profile
.
4.
Under
Services
, click
Properties
.
5.
Select
SSH
from the list of services, and then click
Options
.
6.
Click
Start
to enable SSH on the target server.
7.
On the local workstation where you extracted the bundle contents, use SSH to connect to the
VMware server (
SSH <ipaddress>
).
NOTE:
For Windows servers, use Putty or another terminal emulation program that provides
SSH support.
8.
Use SCP to copy the contents of the extracted bundle to the
/var/log/vmware
directory on
the VMware server. Create the directory if it does not exist.
9.
To determine if the WBEM Providers are already loaded, type
esxcli software vib list
If you have WBEM Providers installed, you will have a line similar to the following:
hp-smx-provider 500.02.10.70.37-434156 Hewlett-Packard VMwareAccepted
2012-01-01
10. Do one of the following:
•
If you do not have WBEM Providers installed, go to step 10.
•
If you have WBEM Providers installed, type the following command to remove the existing
WBEM Providers:
esxcli software vib remove -n hp-smx-provider
11.
Type
reboot
to reboot the server.
12.
Use SSH to log into the VMware server after finishes rebooting.
13.
To install the WBEM Providers, type the following:
esxcli software vib install -v hp-smx-provider-<version>.vib
Example:
esxcli software vib install -v
hp-smx-provider-500.02.10.70.51-434156.vib
14. Type
reboot
to reboot the server to enable the WBEM Providers.
15.
Launch the VSphere Client, and then log into the server to deploy the updates to the server
you want to update.
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