Capturing Image from BL680c G5 Server

[Mario couthino_1]

Can you please advice how can I capture a linux image from my BL680c G5 Server. I have tried the user guide page 26 but when I run the command /etc/init.d/hpasm reconfigure it says hpasm not found. Am I supposed to install more SP's or RPM's. My ILO is at 1.43 and the Firmware is at 8.

Any advice

[Christopher Grandinetti]

Mario,

If the node you are trying to capture the image from was deployed with ICE-Linux, it should have hpasm installed and there should be no need for to run hpasm -reconfigure.

Is this a pre-existing node that was not deployed with ICE-Linux?

If so, you must either deploy the PSP's using ICE-Linux or login to the node and manually install hpasm.

-Chris

[Mario couthino_1]

I was able to run hpasm reconfigure without any issue on this preinstalled Linux node. I am still not able to capture the linux image. I tried to boot this blade via PXe and I get an internal stack error after the prompt

Boot to default BIOS local Storage
Boot to ICE-linux RAM disk environment

It select the ICElinux and then the stack error appears

[Peter Havens]

Mario,

Can you post the details of the stack error that you are seeing?

Thanks,

-Peter

[Mario Couthino]

Stack Error is below

Int 14: CR2 ffffd030 err 00000000 EIP c01102a0 cs 00000060 flags 00010086
Stack c0110495 c0110545 c010fa9f 00000000 c011f0be c030f0a8 c03be1e0 20600000

[Donna Firkser]

Mario,

I have a couple of questions:

a) Did you use ICE-Linux to install the system from which you are trying to capture the image? Or was the system already installed with a supported OS?

b) What OS is running on the system you are trying to capture?

c) On the system you are trying to capture, can you send us the output of the following command.
# /etc/init.d/hpasm status

Thanks,
Donna

[Mario Couthino]

The OS was already installed on this Blade.

The output is of /etc/init.d/hpasm status
Status of hp-ilo:
hp_ilo is loaded... [ OK ]

Using high performance hp-OpenIPMI device driver


hp-OpenIPMI Status:
Module Size Used by
ipmi_si 51928 2
ipmi_devintf 18192 4
ipmi_msghandler 41864 2 ipmi_si,ipmi_devintf

hpasmxld is running... [ OK ]
Status of Foundation Agents (cmafdtn): cmathreshd cmahostd cmapeerd

cmathreshd is running... [ OK ]

cmahostd is running... [ OK ]

cmapeerd is running... [ OK ]
Status of Server Agents (cmasvr): cmastdeqd cmahealthd cmaperfd cpqriisd cmasm2d cmarackd

cmastdeqd is running... [ OK ]

cmahealthd is running... [ OK ]

cmaperfd is running... [ OK ]

cpqriisd is running... [ OK ]

cmasm2d is stopped... [ OK ]

cmarackd is stopped... [ OK ]
Status of Storage Agents (cmastor): cmaeventd cmaidad cmafcad cmaided cmascsid cmasasd

cmaeventd is stopped... [ OK ]

cmaidad is stopped... [ OK ]

cmafcad is stopped... [ OK ]

cmaided is stopped... [ OK ]

cmascsid is stopped... [ OK ]

cmasasd is stopped... [ OK ]

[Mario Couthino]

Apologies for the bits and pieces answer

a) The OS was already installed on the Blade whose image I am trying to capture.

b) REDHAT linux 4 update 6 on x64

c) On the system you are trying to capture, can you send us the output of the following command.
# /etc/init.d/hpasm status
Status of hp-ilo:
hp_ilo is loaded... [ OK ]

Using high performance hp-OpenIPMI device driver


hp-OpenIPMI Status:
Module Size Used by
ipmi_si 51928 2
ipmi_devintf 18192 4
ipmi_msghandler 41864 2 ipmi_si,ipmi_devintf

hpasmxld is running... [ OK ]
Status of Foundation Agents (cmafdtn): cmathreshd cmahostd cmapeerd

cmathreshd is running... [ OK ]

cmahostd is running... [ OK ]

cmapeerd is running... [ OK ]
Status of Server Agents (cmasvr): cmastdeqd cmahealthd cmaperfd cpqriisd cmasm2d cmarackd

cmastdeqd is running... [ OK ]

cmahealthd is running... [ OK ]

cmaperfd is running... [ OK ]

cpqriisd is running... [ OK ]

cmasm2d is stopped... [ OK ]

cmarackd is stopped... [ OK ]
Status of Storage Agents (cmastor): cmaeventd cmaidad cmafcad cmaided cmascsid cmasasd

cmaeventd is stopped... [ OK ]

cmaidad is stopped... [ OK ]

cmafcad is stopped... [ OK ]

cmaided is stopped... [ OK ]

cmascsid is stopped... [ OK ]

cmasasd is stopped... [ OK ]

[Donna Firkser]

So far so good. Did you discover the server and its iLO with SIM? And was SIM able to make the iLO to server association? You can tell by bringing up the SIM GUI and looking for the server and iLO in the "All Systems" display. You should see your server in this display (e.g. foo) and the iLO too (e.g. foo-cp). If SIM was able to make the correct association during discovery, the iLO entry should like something like "foo-cp in Server foo" and the "MP" column for the server "foo" entry should have a green check mark. The server must be properly discovered and registered in SIM before you can deploy or capture an image.

[Mario Couthino]

sim was able to discover the blade and ilo