Nickel collection procedure

[Walker_3]

Hi all,

I have rp7420 and rp3440 servers. I need to collect Nickel from all servers. Can any1 help me how can I do this? Can you provide me the document reference for this utility? Or would you mind to explain it a bit details?

Regards

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[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Steps:
A. Unzip nickel.zip in PC
B. mkdir -p /opt/contrib/bin (if dir does not exist)
C FTP in "BINARY" mode, 'nickel' to /opt/contrib/bin
Overwrite existing 'nickel' file if file exists
D. chmod 555 /opt/contrib/bin/nickel

To run nickel,
E. Login as root
F. cd /opt/contrib/bin
G. ./nickel
H. A file: nickel.yourhostname.tar.gz will be created.
I. FTP in "BINARY" mode,
nickel.yourhostname.tar.gz to PC

Hope this information can help you.

Cheers,
AW

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

nickel can be got from here if you do not have one.

ftp://contrib:9unsupp8@hprc.external.hp.com/sysadmin/inventory

HTH,
Devender

[Walker_3]

Hi Adisuria,

Thanks a lot. I have downloaded your zip file, after unzipping it in my PC it shows no file extension with its name. It is a just nickel file (size 76kb)
I have one nickel.shar file (size 45kb) in my PC which I collected from another source.

Now I am confused which one I need to use. Could you please clear me on it?

Best regards,
Mostafa

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

You can use either of them. The one without extension can be copied to server directly in bonary mode and can be executed straight away.

nickel.shar can be copied in the server to some directory and do

#sh nickel.shar

(It will give you one or more files in same directory one of them will be nickel without extension.)

You can use this nickel file as well.

Also nickel will create tar file in the local directory where it is executed.

HTH,
Devender

[Walker_3]

OK.