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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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 2
L.P. Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. 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 - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 3
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 B HP Management Base Manpages 20 hpbmc(8)...21 hpia64info(8)...26 - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 4
and user information for the HP Management Base (hpmgmtbase). Intended Audience This document is intended for 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 - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 8
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 Management Base - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 10
hpia64info utility 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. hpmodel-Reports Hardware Model Information NOTE: The hpmodel utility is available only - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 11
init.d/hpmgmtbase script during normal boot operation and should not be run manually. hpipmid manages several features related to chassis events. • When the SNPM agents or WBEM providers. hpbmc-Manages the IPMI BMC on HP Integrity Servers Syntax /sbin/hpbmc [-d path] [-b busaddr] [directives [ data - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 12
some things to remember: • Early entry-level HP Integrity servers might not have an MP card. • Early entry-level MP card firmware does not support RMCP. The MP firmware must be upgraded to at least E.03.15 for RMCP support. The MP card is then known as the Integrity iLO Card because it is similar in - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 13
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 directive is SELdecode. The MP/iLO cards of Integrity Servers and some EFI utilities report a SEL event in its raw 16-byte form as two large - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 15
Troubleshooting HP-supported programs (such as SNMP agents) run without any BMC or IPMI errors. The HP Management Base installation performs two major steps to determine the appropriate kernel modules. HP other user actions), then HP Management seconds on certain HP Integrity servers, but it speeds - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 16 Troubleshooting - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 17
change can happen because of a planned, supported kernel upgrade (such as, an errata from Red Hat) or user-initiated patching and rebuild. After the new might not actually work on your particular model of HP Integrity Server. HP does not expect the source to be synchronized until RHEL4.4 or - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 19
HP Integrity Servers. 4. Does Free IPMI work on HP Integrity servers? Free IPMI is a user-space 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 - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 21
performing action(s) on a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). hpbmc was originally designed for HP Integrity Servers directive is unsupported on rx7620, rx8620, SD16A, SD32A Integrity servers. The "triplet" form is documented in the appendix of most entry-level "Operations and Maintenance" manuals - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 22
Trap: SNMP enterprise-specific trap (if any) Platform: All, Entry-level, Mid-range, High-end An E0 event may occur on multiple platforms with slightly different fields (event ID 98 is a good example). A set of attributes will be printed for each platform that supports the event. If the argument is - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 23
of hexadecimal bytes, although no length information is explicitly given. The user must know how to interpret the bytes. For example, hpbmc with RMCP. RMCPpasswd The Management Processor (MP) card on HP Integrity Servers supports RMCP operation for current firmware revisions. On entry-level systems - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 24
MP cards provide a login and command line interface to manage an Integrity server. One of those commands lists the SEL contents. Those events are circular log, and will not take more events when it is full. The HP IPMI daemon, hpipmid monitors this condition and will erase the SEL as needed. SELtail - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 25
(c-Class Integrity Blades by the user. Summary Print machine Given 16 hexadecimal to developers and deep IPMI spec geeks. Files hpbmc needs HP IPMI caching daemon, hpipmid, is running, hpbmc will transparently do all BMC communication through that daemon. All functionality is preserved, and performance - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 27
on all platforms. FPL is only supported on 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 - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 29
the system firmware's SMBIOS table in order to obtain information on HP Integrity servers. This utility offers some additional options to report system UUID, a simple utility with additional support for HP Integrity Servers. Copyright Copyright 2006 Hewlett-Packard Technologies Group, L.P. 29 - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 30
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, and the status option cannot be used. Files A character device file and the driver behind it are managed by the configuration of the - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | 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 rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 33
from design hindsight in security and data complexity. HP Management Base 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 - HP Integrity rx5670 | HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide for Linux - Page 34
asked questions, 19 H hpbmc, 11 hpia64info, 10 hpipmid, 7, 11 hpmgmtbase components, 7 installing, 9 overview, 7 using, 10 utilities, 11 hpmodel, 10 hprasd, 8 hpuid, 11 I installation prerequisites, 9 Repository (see SDRR) start-up scripts, 7 System Event Log (see SEL) T troubleshooting, 15 - HP Integrity rx5670 | 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