HP Insight Management Agents for Linux on HP Integrity Servers: Installation Guide and Release Notes

HP Part Number: 5991-2731

Edition: 12

Published: August 2007

Abstract

This document provides instructions for downloading and configuring HP Insight Management Agents on HP Integrity servers running Linux. As of this publication, these agents work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server.

Table of Contents

Preface

Intended Audience
Typographic Conventions
Publishing History
Related Information
HP Encourages Your Comments

1 Overview

HP Manageability Tools

HP Systems Insight Manager

HP Insight Management Agents

Obtaining the HP Insight Management Agent Package

HP System Management Homepage

HP Management Base

2 Installing and Configuring HP Insight Management Agents

Concepts and Terms to Understand

Installing HP Insight Management Agent Packages

Configuring HP Insight Management Agent Packages

Configuring Polling Intervals

Viewing a Polling Interval
Changing a Polling Interval

3 Reconfiguring HP Insight Management Agents

Before Reconfiguring
Reconfiguring

4 Installing and Configuring HP System Management Homepage

Installing or Updating the HP System Management Homepage
Configuring the HP System Management Homepage

5 Troubleshooting

HP Insight Management Agents Network Ports

Important Information About Firewalls and Troubleshooting

Shutting Down iptables

First Troubleshooting Steps

Advanced Troubleshooting Steps

6 Release Notes

No Agent Support for the LSI1068 SAS I/O Controller in the rx2660 and BL860C Servers
Storage Agents Might Report Incorrect Information on rx8620 and Superdome Servers
Storage Agents Do Not Display Serial Number and Firmware Version on SCSI Controller Cards
Fibre Channel Ports Without Active Link Are Not Visible to Storage Agents

List of Tables

2-1 HP Insight Management Agents Defined

HP Insight Management Agents for Linux on HP Integrity Servers: Installation Guide and Release Notes

Technical documentation

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