HP-Specific Notes

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These notes are meant to record steps needed to properly maintain and support EL6 on HP Proliant G7 ML1** and ML3** servers.

Monitoring Hardware Health

ML100 and ML300-series G7

CentOS Specific

Download PSP for CentOS:

• ProLiant Support Pack for CentOS 6 (i386 and x86_64)

mkdir ~/temp
cd ~/temp
wget -c ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p881944650/v85910/hp-mcp-9.30-23-CentOS.tar.gz
tar -xvzf hp-mcp-9.30-23-CentOS.tar.gz
yum -y install glibc.i686 libgcc.i686 libstdc++.i686
rpm -Uvh mcp/centos/6/x86_64/current/hpacucli-9.40-12.0.x86_64.rpm
#

warning: mcp/centos/6/x86_64/current/hpacucli-9.40-12.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 2689b887: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:hpacucli               ########################################### [100%]

DOWNGRADE NOTE: To downgrade this application to any version prior to 9.10.x.x, the current RPM must be manually uninstalled using the "rpm -e" command before any prior versions can be installed.

LOCKING NOTE: The locking mechanism starting with versions 9.10.X.X, are not compatible with prior versions of the applications. Therefore, mixing older and newer versions of the various applications (ACU, HPACUCLI, HPACUSCRIPTING) is not recommended.

Check the RAID controller and drives;

hpacucli ctrl all show config

Smart Array P410 in Slot 2                (sn: PACCRID11210N9M)

   array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)


      logicaldrive 1 (136.7 GB, RAID 1, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 146 GB, OK)

   array B (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)


      logicaldrive 2 (136.7 GB, RAID 1, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 146 GB, OK)

   SEP (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, Model  SRC 8x6G) 250 (WWID: 500143801465928F)

Booya!

RHEL6 Specific

Download HP Health Check:

• HP System Health Application and Command Line Utilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (AMD64/EM64T)
• HP System Management Homepage for Linux (AMD64/EM64T)

Once downloaded, install dependencies an hp-health;

yum install glibc.i686

rpm -Uvh /root/psp/CentOS/6/packages/x86_64/hp-health-8.6.2.2-14.rhel6.x86_64.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:hp-health              ########################################### [100%]
Please read the Licence Agreement for this software at

         /opt/hp/hp-health/hp-health.license

By not removing this package, you are accepting the terms
of the "HP Proliant Essentials Software End User License Agreement".
==============================================================================
NOTE: To activate the software contained in this package, you must type:
      /etc/init.d/hp-health start
      /etc/init.d/hp-asrd start
as 'root' user.
==============================================================================
The hp-health RPM has installed successfully.

Now start it;

/etc/init.d/hp-health start
/etc/init.d/hp-asrd start

  Using Proliant Standard
 	IPMI based 1XX System Health Monitor
  Using standard Linux IPMI device driver
Starting ipmi drivers:                                     [  OK  ]
  Starting Proliant Standard
 	IPMI based 1XX System Health Monitor (hpasmpld): 
                                                           [  OK  ]

Next;

ln -s /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 /usr/lib/libz.so.1

 

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