ubuntu server, hp power manager RA

[Manuela Schumann]

Hallo,

es gibt bereits einige HP carepacks als Debian packages. Kann mir jemand sagen ob es den HP PowerManager RA auch schon als Debian package gibt ? Oder gibt es vielleicht jemand der diesen schon auf Ubuntu als Suse .rpm installiert hat ?

Für Hinweise wäre ich sehr dankbar.

[Bryan Gartner]

Forgive me if my translation is poor, but what HP care packs are you looking for (perhaps the ProLiant Support Packs -- if so, they can be found in the Software Delivery Repository -- http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR .

I'm not aware of the HP PowerManager RA being available in Debian packages.

[Manuela Schumann]

Thank you very much for your reply. Your translation was absolutely correct. I was wondering whether the HP PowerManager RA was available as a Debian package and I guess it is not. Do you have any experience in using the rpm package and converting it ?

[Bishr Al-Madani]

What does RA stand for?

[Bishr Al-Madani]

What does RA stand for?

[donl]

Using alien I was able to install HP powermanager RA  on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS 64bit.  It requires installing the 32bit library and doing a --force architecture with the file created by alien. Must do with root priviledges.

[l377r1ch]

I tried the same on Debain Squeeze 64 bit with XEN kernel.

alien was able to transform the package and it installed without error messages. But I have trouble setting up the application. The scripts from /etc/init.d/ do all report errors that I was not able to interpret correctly. Did you have to install any supplemental 32 Bit libraries?

[Zilvis]

All the same symptoms... Sitting on the time ticking bomb and banging head to the wall - waiting for power disaster when critical server won't shutdown cleanly...

I am 99% sure that HPPM was working before moving to squeeze.

I can't imagine what went wrong - DMSetup does not see UPS...

[big1tree]

Did anyone get this working. Trying to install on my debian based NAS

[Stanza33]

OK on Ubuntu 12.04

I managed to get a little further with the help of the following

Download the "HP_Power_Manager_Server_software_Z7550_00046.zip" file

unzip contents somewhere

inside is "HP Power Manager Server Software 4.3.2 Linux.tar.gz"

unzip that to somehwere

inside is files

eula

PowerManager-4.3-2.i586.rpm

Setup

Uninstall

Download and install alien

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential

install 32bit libraries

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

then

you need to upack the rpm and modify the control file

so

sudo alien -g PowerManager-4.3-2.i586.rpm

cd package-dir/

sudo vi debian/control

change architecture to be 64bit as well as 32bit

eg change

Architecture: i386

to

Architecture: i386, amd64

save and close

last step

sudo debian/rules binary

will create the .deb file

now install the package

sudo dpkg -i powermanager_4.3-3_amd64.deb

then we fixup some things

I had to edit the startup script

/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91DevMan

changed anything with double brckets to single brackets

eg

[[ changed to just [

]] changed to just ]

also this line

if [ -a $LIBPATH/SmbPath ] ; then

changed to

if [ -z $LIBPATH/SmbPath ] ; then

Next the following commands

export LANG=en
cd /usr/local/DevMan
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/local/DevMan

Move startup script to correct places

sudo cp /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91DevMan /etc/rc1.d
sudo cp /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91DevMan /etc/rc2.d
sudo cp /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91DevMan /etc/rc3.d
sudo cp /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91DevMan /etc/rc4.d
sudo cp /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91DevMan /etc/rc5.d

Because there is no etc /init.d/functions file, create an empty file.

sudo touch /etc/init.d/functions

and reboot

Check it's working

cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/

the run "sudo S91DevMan status"

$ sudo ./S91DevMan status

UPS Device Manager Service Status:
=================================================
DevManBE not running

start it up with "sudo S91DevMan start"

$ sudo ./S91DevMan start
Starting UPS Device Manager Service:
EXE : DevManBE
done.

Now check it's working once more

$ sudo ./S91DevMan status

UPS Device Manager Service Status:
=================================================
root 10090 1 0 21:21 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/DevMan/DevManBE daemon

it running and from the above changes SHOULD auto start at bootup

web browser to 127.0.0.1

brings up the Powermanager interface, log in as admin/admin

unfortunately thats as far as I get... as it doesn't detect my R/T2200 with USB cable

you can also try running DMSetup in the folder

cd /usr/local/DevMan

eg

sudo ./DMSetup

to change things like port number to listen on etc

and walk thru the steps...like I say unfortunately for meI am stuck here....as it only wants /dev/ttys0 type selections (serial not USB)

will keep probing and try a Serial cable next

Just performed the above steps again, this time using a serial cable

And works just fine. Can control all load segments etc... give status of events as it should blah blah

Nice.

Hope it helps someone.

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