As I was working today I kept notes on my adventures in installing the HP Proliant Support Pack software on my server running CentOS 5.5.
It's a rough guide but I have posted it up in the HP Support forums in the hopes that it will help others who take on this task.
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=143646...
I have also submitted a request to add a wiki page on the CentOS wiki so I can post the guide and work on cleaning it up.
I am unsure if it'd be a good idea to post it to the mailing list due to it's length.
If you have feedback or questions please let me know, -Woody
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 23:45 -0400, Brandon Wood wrote:
If you have feedback or questions please let me know,
--- 3) Build the kernel config
[root@server ~]# cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5-x86_64 [root@server 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5-x86_64]# make oldconfig && make prepare --- What's the purpose of this? Is there an rpm that triggers something after this step? I'm just curious about it and would like to try it but I have no Proliant to test on.
I think what I really want to know is why use make oldconfig when you might have 30 more hp machines to use it on with diff hardware unless there are the same. Admin preference I guess.
John
Why would u install psp with out a proliant??
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On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:47 AM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 23:45 -0400, Brandon Wood wrote:
If you have feedback or questions please let me know,
- Build the kernel config
[root@server ~]# cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5-x86_64 [root@server 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5-x86_64]# make oldconfig && make prepare
What's the purpose of this? Is there an rpm that triggers something after this step? I'm just curious about it and would like to try it but I have no Proliant to test on.
I think what I really want to know is why use make oldconfig when you might have 30 more hp machines to use it on with diff hardware unless there are the same. Admin preference I guess.
John
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
What's the purpose of this? Is there an rpm that triggers something after this step? I'm just curious about it and would like to try it but I have no Proliant to test on.
Sorry, you are right this is a part of the document I should explain some. The HP OpenIPMI package compiles a kernel driver and it looks for the config and autoconf.h files in the kernel source directory. There may be a better way of doing this.
I think what I really want to know is why use make oldconfig when you
might have 30 more hp machines to use it on with diff hardware unless there are the same. Admin preference I guess.
As for deploying on multiple machines again you are right, that does pose
an issue. I am not an experienced admin so I may just be going about things the wrong way. I just decided to throw the information out there as I was unable to find any better documentation and wanted to help others who run in to the same issue.
On another list I'm told there is a newer HP PSP version that comes with an installer so all this may be moot.
Thank you for the reply though. -Brandon
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:10 +0000, Brandon Wood wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote: What's the purpose of this? Is there an rpm that triggers something after this step? I'm just curious about it and would like to try it but I have no Proliant to test on.
Sorry, you are right this is a part of the document I should explain some. The HP OpenIPMI package compiles a kernel driver and it looks for the config and autoconf.h files in the kernel source directory. There may be a better way of doing this.
I think what I really want to know is why use make oldconfig when you might have 30 more hp machines to use it on with diff hardware unless there are the same. Admin preference I guess.As for deploying on multiple machines again you are right, that does pose an issue. I am not an experienced admin so I may just be going about things the wrong way. I just decided to throw the information out there as I was unable to find any better documentation and wanted to help others who run in to the same issue.
On another list I'm told there is a newer HP PSP version that comes with an installer so all this may be moot.
--- Thank you very much. You understand my reasoning.....:-)
John
On another list I'm told there is a newer HP PSP version that comes with an installer so all this may be moot.
Brandon, Check the itrc forum, the PSP Developer participated in a thread with myself and another user and cleared up a good chunk of info wrt the psp.
Not only does the new installer provide some customizability but there are quite a few poorly documented notes with the psp and linux namely the very long lag between support for current kernels. I generally just install the relevant rpms in the correct order and skip the majority of the package as its not useful for me.
Hpsum is now used, and in the 8.50 psp for Linux x64, there is an xml file called bp000793.xml, scroll to the very bottom and the select ion syntax should obvious.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc... http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627...
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