Installation Prerequisites

A typical server installation usually includes the following items, and these items are required to successfully install hpmgmtbase:

An officially supported version, update, or errata kernel for:
- Red Hat Advanced Server (AS) 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server (AS) 3.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server (AS) 4.0
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8.0
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.0
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10.0
Red Hat AS 2.1 and SLES 8 on the following legacy entry-level HP Integrity servers:
- rx2600 and rx6000
- rx5670
rpm, the RPM package manager
bash, along with many common shell utilities, including the following:
- awk
- cut
- grep
- ls
insmod, modprobe, depmod, and rmmod from the modutils package
objcopy and objdump from the binutils package

Technical documentation