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HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux User's Guide: HP Smart Setup:HP Support Pack > Chapter 5 Installing and Using the HP Support Pack
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The HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux provides the following additional functionality and utilities for your Linux system in the HP Support Pack: Based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HP Insight Management Agents (HPIMA) allow you to remotely monitor configuration information and system status on your HP Integrity server from any SNMP browser. A central management server that uses HP Insight Manager ( or HP Systems Insight Manager) gathers and organizes the raw agent information from the browser for display in reports, allowing you to monitor system use and troubleshoot problems. HP Insight Management Agents provide a broad spectrum of SNMP agents for the collection of server management data. This product includes SNMP extensions, data collection agents, and MIBs ported from the legacy "Compaq Insight Manager" product, such as Health, Host, Network Interface Card (NIC), Standard Equipment, Standard Information, Storage (including IDA, IDE, SCSI, and FC), and Threshold. The agents are handled by the HP Systems Insight Manager though they should work with any other management console applications that use SNMPv1. You can obtain the latest version of HP Insight Management Agents by installing the downloaded HP Support Pack as described in “Obtaining the Latest HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux”. For more information, see HP Insight Management Agents for Linux on HP Integrity Servers: Installation Guide and Release Notes: HP nPartition Commands enable you to create, modify, and delete nPartitions on HP nPartition servers, including HP Integrity servers such as the Superdome, rx8640, rx8620, rx7640, and rx7620 servers. The manpages for these commands are also installed. HP Partition Manager provides you with a convenient GUI to configure and manage nPartitions on HP servers. Using HP Partition Manager, you can perform complex configuration tasks without having to remember commands and parameters. You select nPartitions, cells, I/O chassis, or other components from the graphical display, and then select an action from a menu. HP Partition Manager is installed on your HP Integrity system by default when HP nPartitions commands are installed; HP Partition Manager is not installed as a standalone application. You can use HP Partition Manager to perform the following tasks: create, modify, and delete nPartitions, examine the nPartition configuration of a complex (all of hardware within a server—including all cells, I/O chassis, cables, cabinet hardware, and power and utilities components), check the complex for potential configuration and hardware problems, and manage hardware resources on the complex.
Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that uses Internet technologies, such as XML, HTTP, and SSL, to manage systems. HP WBEM Providers for Linux allows management applications such as HP Systems Insight Management to retrieve, monitor, and configure system information. HP WBEM Providers are the instruments that provide system data for the management application. For more information, see the HP WBEM Solutions for Linux website: The HP System Management Homepage (SMH) is a Web server that can be used by HP Web-enabled system management software. The System Management Homepage provides an interface between the HP Insight Management Agents and the HP manageability tools. The HP System Management Homepage software organizes data from HP Insight Management Agents installed on a server into easy-to-read tables that are displayed in a Web interface. For more information, see the HP System Management Homepage website: HP Management Base for HP Integrity servers installs an Open IPMI driver appropriate for the target system and several utilities for Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) management. These items are needed by other management products, such as HP Insight Management Agents and HP WBEM Providers. For information about HP Management Base, see hpbmc(8), hpuid(8), hpseld(8,), openipmi(4) and the HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide: OpenPegasus implements the WBEM standard to enable management solutions that deliver increased control of enterprise resources. WBEM is a platform- and resource-independent DMTF standard that defines a common information model and communication protocol for monitoring and controlling resources from diverse sources. OpenPegasus is installed on your HP Integrity system by default when WBEM providers or HP nPartitions commands are installed; OpenPegasus is not installed as a standalone application. OpenPegasus SDK is the software developers kit for the OpenPegasus product. It provides application developers with the tools they need to develop Common Information Model (CIM) client applications and provides modules for OpenPegasus.
HP Array Configuration Utility – Command Line Interface (ACU-CLI) for Linux on Itanium-based systems is an online tool that can be used to manage and configure Smart Array-based storage controllers. The HP ACU-CLI is an interactive command console that provides immediate feedback to the user, and is functionally equivalent to the ACU GUI. HP Utilization Provider provides a light-weight daemon, utild, that records system-utilization data on a five-minute interval. System-utilization data includes CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk utilization, and network utilization. The HP Utilization Provider includes the WBEM provider, which provides access to the utilization data. The Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Management Software relies on the HP Utilization Provider. Removing HP Utilization Provider prevents the VSE Management Software from functioning properly. When HP Utilization Provider is installed, it launches the utild daemon, which consumes minimal CPU, memory, and disk resources. Only 30 days of utilization data are kept in data files in /var/adm/util. The total disk space used by these files should not exceed 20MB in the default installation. The utild process wakes up every five minutes and discovers and records four metrics (CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization); this discovery process has minimal impact on system performance. The WBEM schema files for the HP Utilization Provider are installed at /opt/util/mof. For more information, see utild(1M). The SmartSetup Scripting Toolkit (SSTK) enables you to deploy a large number of HP Integrity servers rapidly and efficiently. Using SSTK, you can develop custom scripts that simplify server deployments by automating various hardware configuration and software installation operations. SSTK can set specific Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) boot variables, create disk partitions, and tie into the standard unattended installation process to install the OS and selected applications. SSTK is delivered as a tar file that is used to install and configure the product. For more information, see the “Configuring the Repository” section of the SmartSetup Scripting Toolkit Deployment Guide: The Integrated Raid (IR) Configuration Utility, cfggen, is a Linux command line utility that configures the IR functionality of the HP Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers that are used in LSI-1068-based HP SAS controllers. This utility is a minimally interactive program that can be executed from the Linux prompt. The result from invoking this utility is communicated to the environment through the program status value returned when the program exits. For more information about cfggen, see cfggen(8), the “Utilities Reference” chapter of the SmartSetup Scripting Toolkit Deployment Guide, or the HP 8 Internal Port SAS Host Bus Adapter (SAS Controller) Users Guide: HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM), is a soft partitioning and virtualization technology within the HP Virtual Server Environment, that enables you to create multiple virtual servers or machines within a single HP Integrity server or nPartition. Each virtual machine hosts its own: "guest" operating system instance, applications and users. The HP Integrity VM WBEM provider facilitates the enabling of manageability and support of guests |
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