Installing the hpmgmtbase Software

Obtain the latest hpmgmtbase for your core distribution. There is one provided for each major vendor release. For example, hpmgmtbase1.8-1.rhel3.ia64.rpm is the 1.8 version of hpmgmtbase compiled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 3 and all updates.

As root, run the following command:

# rpm -Uvh hpmgmtbase-xxxxx.ia64.rpm

where xxxxx is the Linux distribution version.

The installation will take approximately 30 seconds as the contents of the SDRR are read and cached for future use.

Run the hpbmc command with no arguments. If the installation encounters no errors, you should see a summary of your platform (model name, serial numbers, firmware revisions, IP addresses).