A couple of months ago I got an HP Proliant D360 G6 server. I installed Debian 4.0 (etch) because this is the OS my older servers are running.
I installed the Debian 4.0 HP Value Added software from the HP site which includes separate Debian packages for hpasm, hpsmh, hp-OpenIPMI, and a number of other tools, mostly labeled version 7.8.
I have now installed all these packages, but I have not been able to get the system monitoring to talk to the hardware.
I can log into the HP System Management Homepage, but all of the fields are blank or say "N/A".
So I try to run hpasmcli (the command line tool) and it reads back: "read_buf failed. ERROR: Failed to get SMBIOS system data. This does not seem to be a HP Proliant Server. "
Similarly, running cmastdeqd from the command line I see: "read_buf failed. This is a Compaq machine. IS EISA = NOT OK read_buf FAILED."
But there are certain apps I can run, for instance `hplog -t` gives me the temperature data and `hplog -f` gives me the fan data (although this also does not appear on the System Management Homepage).
Does anyone know what the "read_buf failed" error refers to, or why the software might fail to recognize my machine as a Proliant server? It seems that other people have reported success here with similar configurations, any tips would be wonderful!
I'd guess the agents are too old for that server model. Looking at the HP site, only debian 5 is listed as a supported option and the support pack associated with that seems to be 8.25.
I guess you could try pulling down the later PSP and see if that works with the older debian.
Yeah, I was afraid of that! I appreciate the confirmation even if it's bad news.
The 8.25 support pack for Debian 5 seems to depend on newer versions of the C library and other core stuff, so I probably have to accept that getting this up will require moving to Debian 5.
