Oracle Hardware Management Pack Installation Guide Overview
Introduction to the Oracle Hardware Management Pack
Enabling the Host-to-ILOM Interconnect
Installing Components Using the Oracle Hardware Management Pack Installer
Download Firmware and Software Using My Oracle Support
Unix Installer Issue (CR 6977584)
Error Reported When Launching Installer on a Solaris System (CR 6982393)
Running Installer on Solaris With SUNWCreq Cluster Fails (CR 6982718)
Oracle Solaris OS Servers with SUNWipmi Installed Cannot Complete the Install (CR 7070692)
Unable to Launch Installer in GUI Mode on Oracle Linux 6 (CR 7129501)
Installing the QLogic Support on Linux Takes a Long Time (CR 7115215)
Error returned as Available space in Summary Screen (15820240)
Installing Hardware Management Pack Components
Using GUI Mode to Install and Uninstall Components
How to Install Hardware Management Components Using GUI Mode
How to Uninstall Hardware Management Components Using GUI Mode
Using Console Mode to Install or Uninstall Components
How to Uninstall Hardware Management Pack Components Using Console Mode
Using Silent Mode to Install and Uninstall Components
Silent Mode Installation Options
How to Install Hardware Management Pack Components Using Silent Mode
How to Uninstall Hardware Management Pack Component Using Silent Mode
Before You Begin
To install Management Pack components with Oracle Hardware Management Pack Installer, you must be logged into your system with Administrator privileges.
Download and extract the Hardware Management Pack. See Getting the Software.
The directory that you extract the files is referred to as extract-directory in this procedure.
For Windows Server 2003 SP2 or earlier, you must first install the Sun IPMI System Management Driver. See Installing the Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1.
The packages for Hardware Management Pack have dependencies that must be satisfied for a successful installation. See Software Dependencies for more information.
On the Oracle Solaris operating system, due to the restrictions of pkgadd(1M), the path that you extract the Hardware Management Pack to must not contain any spaces for the installation process to proceed.
On servers running the Windows Server operating system, when installing the Host-to-ILOM Interconnect, it is necessary to import the security certificate. See How to Import the Security Certificate on a Windows Server for more information.
On a server running Oracle Solaris 11 with zones set up, the console installer can not be used. See How to Manually Install Components on Oracle Solaris 11 With Zones for information on installing manually on a server with zones set up.
where arch is SPARC or x86 depending on your processor.
The system displays output similar to the following:
Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... Launching installer... Preparing CONSOLE Mode Installation... =============================================================================== Oracle Hardware Management Pack (created with InstallAnywhere) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== Introduction ------------ InstallAnywhere will guide you through the installation of Oracle Hardware Management Pack. It is strongly recommended that you quit all programs before continuing with this installation. Respond to each prompt to proceed to the next step in the installation. If you want to change something on a previous step, type 'back'. You may cancel this installation at any time by typing 'quit'.
ENTER A COMMA_SEPARATED LIST OF NUMBERS REPRESENTING THE FEATURES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SELECT, OR DESELECT. TO VIEW A FEATURE'S DESCRIPTION, ENTER '?<NUMBER>'. PRESS RETURN WHEN YOU ARE DONE: 1- [X] Hardware Management Agents 2- [X] CLI Tools 3- [ ] IPMITool 4- [ ] Emulex Fibre Channel support 5- [ ] QLogic Fibre Channel support Please choose the Features to be installed by this installer.:
Options 1 and 2 are preselected. To toggle the selected options, enter a comma separated list of numbers.
For example, given the default selection shown above, if you enter 1, 3 Hardware Management Agents is deselected and IPMITool is selected.
If the system displays:
=============================================================================== Dependency requirement for feature selection. ---------------------------------------------- Before installing hmp packages, please resolve these requirements: Emulex Fibre Channel support requires package(s): elxocmcore libhbaapi-devel QLogic Fibre Channel support requires package(s): libhbaapi-devel 1- Exit and resolve the dependencies. 2- Continue and de-select unresolved packages.
Choose one of the options and press Enter.
Configure Hardware Management Agent ----------------------------------- Start the Hardware Management Agent? This agent's short name is hwmgmtd. ->1- Yes 2- No
Type the number for your choice or press Enter to select Yes.
The following screen opens:
Configure SNMP Agent -------------------- Start the SNMP agent? This agent's short name is snmpd on Linux, sma on Solaris, and SNMP on Windows. ->1- Yes 2- No
Type the number for your choice or press Enter to select Yes.
================================================================ Configure ILOM Trap Proxy -------------------------- The ILOM trap proxy enables you to forward traps generated by an Oracle ILOM service processor to a network destination without having to connect the service processor to the destination network. When enabling the SNMP trap proxy, you must configure the IP, port and SNMP community that your destination is listening on. Do you want to enable ILOM Trap Proxy? 1- Yes ->2- No
If you want to enable the fault trap proxy, enter 1. The system offers options to configure the SNMP fault trap proxy, or to accept the defaults:
Destination IP (DEFAULT: 127.0.0.1): Destination Port (DEFAULT: 162): Destination Community (DEFAULT: public):
Configure Host-to-ILOM Interconnect ----------------------------------- Configure the Host-to-ILOM Interconnect between the host and ILOM. This is a high-speed connection that allows fast communication with ILOM using an internal IP address. 1- Configure automatically ->2- Configure manually
Type the number for your choice or Enter to select Configure automatically.
If you choose 1 or 3, go to Step 11. If you choose 2–Configure manually, the system displays:
Configure Host-to-ILOM Interconnect Manually -------------------------------------------- Specify the following parameters. IP Address: (DEFAULT: 169.254.182.76): Netmask: (DEFAULT: 255.255.255.0): Host IP Address: (DEFAULT: 169.254.182.77):
The following screen opens:
Ready To Install ---------------- InstallAnywhere is now ready to install Oracle Hardware Management Pack onto your system at the following location:
The installation takes about 2 minutes.
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