Hardware Management Agent Service Status Dead

After installing the Hardware Management Agent on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the hwmgmtd service starts but you see something similar to the following:

/etc/init.d/hwmgmtd start

Starting Sun HW agent services: . . . . . . . . [ OK ]

/etc/init.d/hwmgmtd status

hwmgmtd dead but subsys locked

In addition, there may be a line in the Hardware Management Agent similar to the following:

hwagentd_poller.c:334:hwmgmtd_bmc_response_test):Unable to reach the KCS interface over ipmitool-hwmgmtd.

This problem occurs when the IPMI device drivers have not been installed. Hardware Management Agent uses the IPMI drivers to access the KCS interface.

Solution: Install an IPMI system such as OpenIPMI, which provides device drivers for full access to IPMI information.