Introduction to the Oracle Hardware Management Pack

This section provides an overview of the Oracle Hardware Management Pack components and how to use them with your Oracle servers.

Oracle Hardware Management Pack (Hardware Management Pack) provides tools to help you manage and configure your Oracle servers. Hardware Management Pack consists of components that you install on your server using Oracle Hardware Management Pack Installer, which is supplied as part of Hardware Management Pack.

The Hardware Management Pack components enable you to:

• Use a management agent at the operating system level to enable in-band monitoring of your Oracle hardware over Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). You can use this information to integrate your Oracle servers into your data centre management infrastructure.

• Use command-line tools to configure BIOS, RAID volumes and ILOM service processors on your servers.

• Use a command-line tool to upgrade your server components.

• Use IPMItool to access server service processors via the IPMI protocol and perform management tasks.

The Hardware Management Pack components are installed using the Oracle Hardware Management Pack Installer, which is supplied as part of the Hardware Management Pack. This guide provides an overview of the Hardware Management Pack components and how to install them.

For more information on how to configure and work with the Hardware Management Pack components see the following individual component documents:

• Oracle Server Management Agents 2.1 User’s Guide

• Oracle Server CLI Tools and IPMItool 2.1 User’s Guide

For more information on the Hardware Management Pack features, see the following sections:

• Oracle Hardware Management Agents

• Oracle Server CLI Tools

• IPMItool

• Local ILOM Interconnect (LAN over USB)