Oracle Server Management Agents User's Guide Overview
Oracle Server Management Agents
Configuring Hardware Management Agent and Hardware SNMP Plugins
Oracle Server Hardware SNMP Plugins Overview
Working With Management Agents
Troubleshooting Management Agents
General Management Agents Troubleshooting
Oracle Solaris Operating System Troubleshooting
How to Remove a Packaging Lock File
Hardware Management Agent Service Fails to Start
How to Solve Issues With IPMI Device Drivers
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.