Install Components on a Linux Server

Note:

Starting with Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.4.9.0, the only installation option available is a manual installation. If you have an earlier version of Oracle Hardware Management Pack, you must uninstall it before installing Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.4.9.0.

• To install Hardware Management Pack components manually, you must be logged in to your system with root privileges.

• Download and extract the Hardware Management Pack. See Getting the Software.

  The directory to which you extract the files is referred to as extract-directory in this procedure.

• The packages for Hardware Management Pack have dependencies that must be satisfied for a successful installation. See Software Dependencies for more information.

• If your system includes adapters using technology from QLogic, Emulex or Mellanox, you must install the appropriate third-party utilities included with Hardware Management Pack. See Available Packages for Linux.

• These instructions also apply to Oracle VM, see Software Dependencies for OS-specific package dependencies information.

• For instructions on installing Oracle Linux Fault Management Architecture software on Oracle Linux, see Installing the Oracle Linux FMA Software.

• Beginning with Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.4.7, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) support is no longer available.

1. If you want to install only ipmitool or ipmiflash, see the following steps. If you also want to install the other Hardware Management Pack components, go to Step 3.

   • To install ipmiflash, type the following command:

     # rpm -i /extract-directory/packages/ipmiflash*.rpm

   • To install ipmitool, type the following command:

     # rpm -i /extract-directory/packages/ipmitool*.rpm

     By default, no output opens after the installation.

2. Determine which Hardware Management Pack components to install.

   See Available Packages for Linux for an overview of which packages are available for installation.

   Note:

   You must install oracle-hmp-libs with all packages. If you are installing oracle-hmp-snmp you must also install oracle-hmp-hwmgmt.

3. Use one of the following methods to install the packages:

   • Install on an Oracle Linux system using yum with the following syntax:

     # yum localinstall /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-component.rpm path_to_additional_components

     For example, to install the command-line tools, the Hardware Management Agent and SNMP plugins:

     # yum localinstall /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-libs*rpm /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-tools*rpm /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-hwmgmt*rpm /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-snmp*rpm

   • Install on any supported Linux system using rpm with the following syntax:

     # rpm -i /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-component.rpm path_to_additional_components

     For example, to install the command-line tools, the Hardware Management Agent and SNMP plugins:

     # rpm -i /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-libs*rpm /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-tools*rpm /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-hwmgmt*rpm /extract-directory/packages/oracle-hmp-snmp*rpm

     No output appears by default.

4. If you have installed the Oracle Hardware Management Agent, start the hwmgmtd service.

   • For systems running Oracle Linux or Red Hat Linux versions 4, 5 and 6, and SUSE Linux versions 10 and 11:

     # service hwmgmtd start

   • For systems running Oracle Linux 7 and 8, or Red Hat Linux version 7 and SUSE Linux version 12:

     # systemctl start hwmgmtd

Optional Cleanup After Installation or Uninstallation