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Oracle® Server Management Agents User's Guide

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Updated: January 2017
 
 

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.