HP-Specific Notes

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These notes are meant to record steps needed to properly maintain and support EL6 on HP Proliant G7 ML1** and ML3** servers.

Monitoring Hardware Health

ML100-series G7

CentOS Specific

Download PSP for CentOS:

• ProLiant Support Pack for CentOS 6 (i386 and x86_64)

tar -xvzf hp-psp-8.62-3-CentOS.tar.gz 
rpm -Uvh psp/centos/6/x86_64/current/hpacucli-8.60-8.0.noarch.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:hpacucli               ########################################### [100%]

Check the RAID controller and drives;

hpacucli ctrl all show config

Smart Array P410 in Slot 2                (sn: PACCRID11210N9M)

   array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)


      logicaldrive 1 (136.7 GB, RAID 1, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 146 GB, OK)

   array B (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)


      logicaldrive 2 (136.7 GB, RAID 1, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 146 GB, OK)

   SEP (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, Model  SRC 8x6G) 250 (WWID: 500143801465928F)

Booya!

RHEL6 Specific

Download HP Health Check:

• HP System Health Application and Command Line Utilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (AMD64/EM64T)
• HP System Management Homepage for Linux (AMD64/EM64T)

Once downloaded, install dependencies an hp-health;

yum install glibc-2.12-1.47.el6.i686

rpm -Uvh --nodeps hp-health-8.7.0.22-17.rhel6.x86_64.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:hp-health              ########################################### [100%]
Please read the Licence Agreement for this software at

         /opt/hp/hp-health/hp-health.license

By not removing this package, you are accepting the terms
of the "HP Proliant Essentials Software End User License Agreement".
==============================================================================
NOTE: To activate the software contained in this package, you must type:
      /etc/init.d/hp-health start
      /etc/init.d/hp-asrd start
as 'root' user.
==============================================================================
The hp-health RPM has installed successfully.

Now start it;

/etc/init.d/hp-health start
/etc/init.d/hp-asrd start

  Using Proliant Standard
 	IPMI based 1XX System Health Monitor
  Using standard Linux IPMI device driver
Starting ipmi drivers:                                     [  OK  ]
  Starting Proliant Standard
 	IPMI based 1XX System Health Monitor (hpasmpld): 
                                                           [  OK  ]

Next;

ln -s /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 /usr/lib/libz.so.1

 

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