hponcfg/hp-health setup on debian fails

[jkister]

trying to configure my ilo remotely with hponcfg on a dl385 g1 with debian7.

followed the instructions here but hp-health cannot start.

Unpacking hp-health (from .../hp-health_9.4.0.1.7-5._amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package hponcfg.
Unpacking hponcfg (from .../hponcfg_4.2.0.8-5._amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up hp-health (9.4.0.1.7-5.) ...
  Starting Proliant System Health Monitor (hpasmd):
		[ FAILED ]

invoke-rc.d: initscript hp-health, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hp-health (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hponcfg:
 hponcfg depends on hp-health; however:
  Package hp-health is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing hponcfg (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hp-health
 hponcfg
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

p1> cat /var/log/hp-health/hpasmd.log
  Starting Proliant System Health Monitor (hpasmd):
/etc/init.d/hp-health: 698: /etc/init.d/hp-health: hpasmd: not found

and i do not see any hpasmd anywhere--

p1> find .
.
./hp-health
./hp-health/examples
./hp-health/examples/lite-mgmt
./hp-health/examples/lite-mgmt/cma.conf.nosnmp
./hp-health/examples/lite-mgmt/hpsysmon.sh
./hp-health/examples/lite-mgmt/COPYING.txt
./hp-health/examples/lite-mgmt/README.txt
./hp-health/bin
./hp-health/bin/hpasmlited
./hp-health/bin/hpasmpld
./hp-health/bin/hpasmxld
./hp-health/bin/hp-asrd
./hp-health/hprpm.xpm
./hp-health/addons
./hp-health/addons/libcpqci64.a
./hp-health/hp-health.license
./hp-health/sh
./hp-health/sh/hpasmxld_reset.sh

i tried symlinking hpasmlited but that failed miserably.

i confirmed that this server does have compatilbe hardware:

p1> lspci -d 0e11:b203 | cut -d' ' -f1
01:02.0
p1> lspci -xv -s "01:02.0"
01:02.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated Lights Out Controller (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device b206
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 7
	I/O ports at 4800 [size=256]
	Memory at f7db0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
	Capabilities: [f0] Power Management version 2
00: 11 0e 03 b2 03 01 90 02 01 00 80 08 00 00 80 00
10: 01 48 00 00 00 00 db f7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 0e 06 b2
30: 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 01 00 00

can someone help me get this working?

[derick_souza]

Hi @jkister

The hponcfg support just red hat or suse.

http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/supportmatrix/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

[jkister]

oh, i see.  Do you have any suggestions on how I might reset the console port from Debian7?

the port seems hung - i cant ping it and it's not taking any TCP connections.  the swithport sees the link "up" and i tried turning it down & up which made no difference.  I can't cold-boot the box because I'm afraid that the operating system is not going to boot correctly, hence why i'm looking to fix the console port.

[jkister]

also, the HPE website shows how to use hponcfg on debian, maybe they added support to debian after that support article was written

https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/project/mcp/

[jkister]

installing the older version 8.7.0 as described here makes hp-health work.  hponcfg still breaks, though:

# hponcfg
HP Lights-Out Online Configuration utility
Version 4.2.0 Date 6/10/2013 (c) Hewlett-Packard Company, 2013
ERROR: A general system error occurred while detecting Management Processor.
ACTION REQUIRED: Check if iLO and iLO driver are up and running.