Installing HP Management Base

Obtain the latest hpmgmtbase software, which is delivered in the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux Support Pack, for your core Linux distribution from the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux website:

http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials

There is an RPM file provided for each supported Linux release. For example, hpmgmtbase-2.9-11.sles10.ia64.rpm is the 2.9 version of hpmgmtbase compiled for SLES10 and all updates.

As root, enter the following command, where xxxxx is the Linux distribution version:

# rpm -Uvh hpmgmtbase-xxxxx.ia64.rpm

The installation takes 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).