HP SMH with PSP on Linux

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HP SMH with PSP on Linux

Note: Below instructions applies only to HP ProLiant range of servers.
The HP System Management Homepage is a web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies the management of HP Proliant and Integrity servers. By aggregating data from HP Insight Management Agents and other management tools, the System Management Homepage provides a secure and intuitive interface to review in-depth hardware configuration and status data, performance metrics, system thresholds and software version control information. The System Management Homepage is easy to install as part of the Service ProLiant Support Pack (PSP).

Installation Steps

Create a directory for downloading PSP pack:

mkdir hp

cd hp

Download the latest file by choosing the correct version for the linux base (You may would like to confirm with infra team before downloading) and extract it:

For rhel5, at the time of writing this article, the package was psp-9.10.rhel5.x86_64.en.tar.gz.

wget ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/supportpack-linux/p323971208/v70746/psp-9.10.rhel5.x86_64.en.tar.gz

tar zxvf psp-9.10.rhel5.x86_64.en.tar.gz

Ensure net-snmp is installed, if not, install it.

yum install net-snmp

Install the PSP packages and SMH (assumes the rpms are in current directory, do a ls -al to confirm) in below order, lest it may fail due to dependencies:

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck hp-health-* hpacucli-* hponcfg-*

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck hpsmh-*

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck hp-snmp-agents-* hp-smh-templates-* cpqacuxe-* hpdiags-*

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck hp-ilo-* hpvca-*

During the install of hp-snmp-agents, you may be asked to configure snmp agents required to retrieve data from server via SNMP data source (You can configure later if you wish by running /sbin/hpsnmpconfig). The configuration involves answering a set of questions:

This configuration script will configure SNMP to integrate with the HP SIM and

the HP System Management Homepage by editting the snmpd.conf file. The HP-SNMP-Agents can also exist in a more secure

SNMP environment (e.g. VACM) that you have previously configured. See the

hp-snmp-agents(4) man page for specific details on how to configure the VACM entries

in the 'snmpd.conf' file. You may press <ctrl+c> now to exit now if needed.

Do you wish to use an existing snmpd.conf (y/n) (Blank is n):

Just press enter (Blank is no) and enter a community string whenever asked, other questions can be skipped.

Enter the localhost SNMP Read/Write community string (one word, required, no default):

Enter localhost SNMP Read Only community string (one word, Blank to skip):

Enter Read/Write Authorized Management Station IP or DNS name (Blank to skip):

Enter Read Only Authorized Management Station IP or DNS name (Blank to skip):

Enter default SNMP trap community string (One word; Blank to skip):

Enter SNMP trap destination IP or DNS name (One word; Blank to skip):

The system contact is set to

syscontact Root <root@localhost> (configure /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf) Do you wish to change it (y/n) (Blank is n):

The system location is set to syslocation Unknown (edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf) Do you wish to change it (y/n) (Blank is n):

Once installation is complete, you can access HP SMH at https://<IP>:2381/

Note: Above packages can be installed without downtime. However certain packages (not listed above) such as hp-OpenIPMI, hp-fc-enablement etc. may require reboot. The installation of additional packages should be evaluated for need. For example, hp-fc-enablement may be needed only if there is HP storage fibre channel array connectivity to the server.

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