Installation of HP Management Agents for VMware ESX 4.x failed

[David Niven DE]

Hi,

I tried to install HP Insight Manager Agents 8.5.1 ( hpmgmt-8.5.1-vmware4x.tgz ) on ESX 4.0 and got this error message:

--- quote ---
HP Insight Manager Agent 8.5.1-1 Installer for VMware ESX
Target System is VMware ESX 4.0.0 build-208167
Server: ProLiant xxxxx xx


Insufficient arguments.
Insufficient arguments.
An active Virtual Machine [ ] has been detected on host [xxxx.xxxx.xxxx]

The ESX host will be put into maintenance mode
to be able to install/uninstall the agents.
The Virtual Machines must be either Powered off or Suspended
by the operator to allow the transition
of the ESX host into maintenance mode.
Please modify the state of the VMs to be Suspended or powered off
and then retry Agents Installation.

--- quote ---

All machines was suspend/power off and the ESX host was already in maintenance mode, so the error message is really a mess.

This error was caused by the VM description text.

Examples:
Windows Serial number: xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
Verizoncore vRanger status: vRanger Pro Backup: Type [Incremental] Result [Success] Time [23.08.2010 17:11:58] Repository [Backup staging area]

The installation script install851vibs.sh seems to be buggy. The installation runs fine after I removed all VM description texts.

[Angelo Conforti · Accepted solution]

Same problem:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1439756

Installation script fails with multiple-line notes

[David Niven DE]

John McClane: Oh man, I can't fucking believe this. Another basement, another elevator. How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?

I want to run 'install851vibs.sh --uninstall' and got the error message with 'Insufficient arguments.'. There were 3 power-off VMs on the ESX 4.1 host.

See
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1435776

I replaced
--- old --- line 405 ---
if [ "$VM_ID" = "Vmid" ] ; then
continue
else
--- old ---
with
--- new ---
if [ "$VM_ID" = "Vmid" ] ; then
continue
elif [ "$VM_ID" = "" ] ; then
continue
else
--- new ---

The uninstall runs fine after the fix. The function 'vmops_list_vm' (vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms > $HPIM_VMLIST) returns a empty add the end, which is interpreted as a VM later.

I started the installation of install860avibs.sh afterwards.

Surprise, surprise -> same bug. But the coding is now in line 414.