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HP Management Base Installation and Users Guide for Linux HP Integrity Servers HP Part Number: 5991-7630 Published: May 2009 Edition: 4 - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 2
HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP United States and other countries. RED HAT READY® Logo and RED HAT CERTIFIED PARTNER® Logo are trademarks of - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 3
10 hpuid-Reports Unique Identifier (UID 11 hpipmid-Caches IPMI Data...11 hpbmc-Manages the IPMI BMC on HP Integrity Servers 11 Decoding Events with hpbmc...13 4 Troubleshooting...15 Proper Function...15 Improper Function...16 5 Rebuilding the Kernel 17 A Frequently Asked Questions 19 - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 4
system administrators who have experience installing and managing Linux systems. This document is intended to be used with the operations and maintenance guides for any HP Integrity servers on which HP the appropriate product support service. See your HP sales representative for details. For the - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 5
: http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/ - Distributed Management Task Force website: http://www.dmtf.org - The HP Integrity server technical support information website: http://www.hp.com/support/itaniumservers/ - For the location of the nearest sales office, call: In the United States: +1 800 - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 6
. We are committed to providing documentation that meets your needs. Send any errors found, suggestions for improvement, or compliments to: [email protected] Include the document title, manufacturing part number, and any comment, error found, or suggestion for improvement you have concerning this - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 7
lookup files, and utility support for other HP manageability software (such as SNMP Agents or WBEM providers). All HP Integrity servers provide their platform manageability information using hardware that follows the Intelligent Platform Management Initiative (IPMI) specification. A key component of - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 8
that collects and analyzes events to enhance Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS). This daemon is only available on SLES11 and RHEL5.4 and later. • Shared libraries and lookup tables to support these tools and other HP products (such as SNMP agents and WBEM providers) 8 Overview of - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 9
Base: • An officially supported version, update, or errata kernel for: - RHEL Advanced Server (AS) 2.1 - RHEL AS 3.0 - RHEL AS 4.0 - RHEL 5.0 - SLES 8.0 - SLES 9.0 - SLES 10.0 - SLES 11 RHEL AS 2.1 and SLES 8 on the following legacy entry-level HP Integrity servers: - rx2600 and rx6000 - rx5670 - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 10
NOTE: The hpmodel utility is available only with HP Management Base version 2.1 and later. Syntax /opt/hp/hpmgmtbase/bin/hpmodel [-a] [-imprsuw] hpmodel reads the system firmware's SMBIOS table to obtain information on HP Integrity servers. The following command options enable you to report - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 11
be run manually. hpipmid MP Virtual Front Panel (VFP) for midrange and high-end systems. In addition, hpipmid caches IPMI data (logs, data, and sensor readings) and provides information to client programs, such as SNPM agents or WBEM providers. hpbmc-Manages the IPMI BMC on HP Integrity Servers - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 12
card using the SA command. • The IPMI password on all HP Integrity servers is unset (or null) by default. • On midrange and high-end systems the RMCP password can be set through the MP card command-line interface. Entry-level systems support only RMCP password changes over RMCP; see the RMCP passwd - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 13
Base libraries and utilities generate extensive decoding of SEL entries. HP Integrity servers support several event types in the SEL. The first is type 02 events, which are mostly documented and described in the IPMI specification. It is possible to synthesize a complete textual description of any - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 14
guide of each server. This triplet can be used as input for EventLookup. Finally, the entire event dictionary can be dumped with either EventLookup LIST (a very verbose form) or EventLookup TABLE ( | -separated fields suitable for further parsing or importing into a spreadsheet). 14 Using HP - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 15
Troubleshooting In the discussion that follows, all programs (and drivers) attempt to communicate with the local system BMC. No RMCP is used, no -d argument is used, and the shell environment variable EZBMC_DEVICE is not set. Proper Function In a properly functioning system HP Integrity servers, - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 16
problems with HP Management Base are related to the version and loading of the three kernel modules that make up the Open IPMI driver. Specifically, it is the System Interface (SI) module that causes the problems out of synchronization with HP Integrity server hardware for most of Troubleshooting - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 17
of the appropriate binaries for the HP-supplied Open IPMI modules. If the kernel happen because of a planned, supported kernel upgrade (such as, an errata from Red Hat) or user-initiated patching on your particular model of HP Integrity Server. HP does not expect the source to be - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 18
5. For all kernels, enter: # modprobe ipmi_devintf . 6. Reconfigure HP Management Base: # /etc/init.d/hpmgmtbase reconfigure. The reconfiguration should recognize that modules are loaded from some other source and ignore any HP-supplied binaries. 18 Rebuilding the Kernel - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 19
protocol driver that provides access to BMC hardware without a kernel module. It is targeted specifically at I/O port implementations of BMCs found on x86 architectures. HP Integrity Servers use a memory-mapped architecture that is incompatible with Free IPMI. 5. There are a lot of n/a lines when - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 20
B HP Management Base Manpages This appendix contains the HP Management Base manpages. NOTE: For all the HP Management Base manpages, you can display a synopsis of options and directives by entering the following: command -? where command is the name of the command. 20 HP Management Base Manpages - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 21
was originally designed for HP Integrity Servers using the Open IPMI driver. hpbmc may work against other platforms if a BMC is available via a network connection (RMCP). If the optional directive is missing, the Summary output is printed. -b busaddr If the target BMC supports the IPMI Send Message - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 22
} The IPMI 2.0 spec allows information strings to be set with this command. Commonly used parameters and the strings they return: 1. System Firmware Revision 2. Operating system type 3. Primary operating system name and revision 4. Current operating system name and revision 22 HP Management Base - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 23
. RMCPpasswd The Management Processor (MP) card on HP Integrity Servers supports RMCP operation for current firmware revisions. On entry-level systems (non- cellular) RMCP must first be enabled via an interactive session to the MP. The default password is null (no password), and can only be changed - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 24
System Event Log. The arguments are the raw 14 bytes of an SEL body. One source of this is the bytes given by SELprintraw. SELdecode MP cards provide a login and command line interface to manage an Integrity server more events when it is full. The HP IPMI daemon, hpipmid monitors this condition and - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 25
directive. SetOANameStrings (c-Class Integrity Blades only) The only to developers and deep IPMI spec geeks. Files hpbmc needs the Open user and password is left as an exercise for the reader. A password may be supplied without a hp.com/linux. Copyright Copyright 2004-2009 Hewlett-Packard - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 26
is a utility that lists information obtained from the IPMI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) on HP Integrity Servers. This information is a fixed set in a fixed format and is used primarily by other HP tools. In general, more useful functionality can be found with hpbmc. See Also hpbmc - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 27
Integrity servers while IML is only supported on ProLiants -v Verbose output; more "v"s gets more output. Only useful with -f. Files /var/log/hp/SEL.. SEL cache backing store. /var/log/hp/SEL.. FPL cache backing store. hpipmid also maintains a System - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 28
" right after installation of hpmgmtbase, and will switch to "watching" when the backfill is complete. See Also hpbmc(8)hprasd(8) Author Hewlett-Packard Company .http://www.hp.com/linux. Copyright Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Technologies Group, L.P. 28 - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 29
dmidecode, a system utility written by Jean Delvare to parse and display all information exposed by SMBIOS. For more info on dmidecode visit http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/. Modified by Hewlett-Packard to provide a simple utility with additional support for HP Integrity Servers. Copyright Copyright - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 30
cellular systems). For status checks, prints out the components and connectivity of the running partition. Environment Variables hpuid will use the target in HPBMC_DEVICE, whether a local device file or RMCP destination (see hpbmc(8) for format). This only works for entry-level HP Integrity servers - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 31
Author Hewlett-Packard Company.http://www.hp.com/linux, based on a similar command originally available on Compaq Proliants. Copyright Copyright 2006 Hewlett-Packard Technologies Group, L.P. 31 - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 32
upgrades HP Integrity server legacy MP cards to Integrity iLO cards; it is this firmware that supplies RMCP. Intelligent Platform Management Bus. An I2C serial link between two intelligent IPMI controllers such as a BMC and an MP card. While this specification does exist in some HP Integrity servers - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 33
does not directly perform any SNMP operations but its libraries are used by products that do, such as the Systems Insight Manager SNMP Agents for HP Integrity Servers. Web-Based Enterprise Management. (pronounced (web-em). Methods, data structures, and protocols defined by the DMTF for data access - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 34
monitored by hpbmc, 7 R Remote Management Control Protocol (see RMCP) RMCP, 12 34 Index S SDRR, 7, 12 SEL, 7 Sensor Data Record Repository (see SDRR) start-up scripts, 7 System Event Log (see SEL) T troubleshooting, 15 - HP Integrity rx1600 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 35
*5991-7630* Printed in the US
HP Management Base Installation and Users
Guide for Linux
HP Integrity Servers
HP Part Number: 5991-7630
Published: May 2009
Edition: 4