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HP Management Base Installation and User's Guide
Chapter 1 Overview of hpmgmtbase |
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Table of Contents HP Management Base (hpmgmtbase) is a collection of software that includes driver modules, daemons, shared libraries, 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 IPMI is the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). Access to the BMC under Linux access is granted by the Open IPMI device driver. The Open IPMI device driver started as an independent project and was accepted into the formal Linux kernel as of 2.4.22 and 2.6. Throughout its development, this driver has not taken full advantage of the capabilities of HP Integrity platforms, and some problems exist with older commercial Linux distributions:
HP provides hpmgmtbase to ship a driver with appropriate patches that works on all supported commercial Linux distributions for all HP Integrity servers. Other utilities and support files comprise the remainder of hpmgmtbase. |
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