HP IM Agents 7.41A and VMware ESX 2.5.3

[Seregy Zarubin]

When trying to install HP Insight Manager Agents 7.41A to the VMware ESX 2.5.3 server I get the following error:

Checking dependencies of hpsmh-2.1.2-127.vmware.i386.rpm [ OK ]
Installing hpsmh-2.1.2-127.vmware.i386.rpm
This Red Hat Linux distribution is not supported.
error: execution of %pre scriptlet from hpsmh-2.1.2-127 failed, exit status 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hpsmh-2.1.2-127

Could anyone please tell me the reason of the failure? What has to be done to install the agents successfully?

Thank you.

[Ken Osborn]

Seregy,

Please reference:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=387179

and

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=39104&tstart=50

[Seregy Zarubin]

Ken,

The mentioned articles refer to agents 7.40, which do not support ESX 2.5.3. I'm, however, trying to install agents 7.41, which support ESX 2.5.3 and have "2.5.3" string in the SUPPORTED_VERSIONS variable.

[Tim Chapman_1]

are you installing the agents while booted to ESX or linux-up? Installing to linux-up works fine