topic Re: Red Hat Linux 7.3 and the IMD in Operating System - Linux

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and the IMD

Chandies Williamsn — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:10:16 GMT

Is there a utility that will allow me to configure the Integrated Management Display?

I run RH 7.3 on a Proliant 3000, and am very happy with the complete configuration. I used the Compaq config CD to set most of the options on the IMD, but there are a few items that cannot be set that way (like clearing the log, toggling to the CPU / RAM utilization displays)

I found a newsgroup post dated 2000 that said that function was not available under Linux, I'm hoping that's changed in the last three years.

Re: Red Hat Linux 7.3 and the IMD

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:29:32 GMT

Lunux/Unix leaves these tasks up to the system administrator.

With a combination of cron and a few simple scripts, you can trim your log files without much hassle.

You can use gtop in X-Windows to monitor performance or sar scripts to collect performance data.

Hope this helps.

SEP

Re: Red Hat Linux 7.3 and the IMD

Chandies Williamsn — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:35:46 GMT

Not exactly, but thanks.

I specifically want to configure the IMD from within the OS.

Ideally, would like to have all bells and whistles it offers under Win NT /2K (which uses the Compaq Remote Management Service.

Even if I have to set up a .conf and pipe the text to a device driver, that would be better than nothing.

At the very least, I want to be able to clear the log that shows on the IMD. (used machine, log shows data from the previous owner, not relevent to this operation)

Re: Red Hat Linux 7.3 and the IMD

Stuart Browne — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:47:50 GMT

If the Proliant 3000 uses the same tools as the ML/DL series (hpasm package), then you should have tools such as 'hplog' and a few other 'cpqiml*' tools (rpm -ql hpasm | grep bin) to do such things.

As for showing the utilisation, I wasn't aware any IML tool did this anyway.

Re: Red Hat Linux 7.3 and the IMD

Chandies Williamsn — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:48:41 GMT

Well, that didn't work. It couldn't install the rpm.

As a temp measure, I installed Win2k on an old hard drive, then used the IMD utilties to set it.

Anyone know if there is a *nix version of the Compaq Remote Monitor service?