management agents on != rpm

[Robin Ericsson]

Hi,

I've spent most of the day trying to get HP's managementdrivers from the rpms running on slackware with no luck.

Have anyone else any experience in getting these tools to work on another environment like slackware, debian, gentoo, etc?


br
Robin

[Paulo A G Fessel]

What are exactly the errors/error messages you're getting?

It may probably be that some shared libraries aren't being found, or are just expected to be in different places.

You may discover this issuing the ldd command on agents' binaries. If there are broken shared library links you'll see something like this:

[root@wotan lib]# ldd /usr/bin/wpd2sxw
libwpd-1.so.3 => not found
libgsf-1.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.1 (0x40026000)

(Of course, this was just an example.)

Do this with the agents' binaries and check if some message like this pops up.

If they do, the obvious solution is ln -s to point to the directories the binaries expect the libraries to be.

HTH
Paulo Fessel

[Robin Ericsson]

Most of the errors were regarding startup-scripts. I've tried both rh7, rh8 and ul1 packages and rh8 packages I could not run as I don't want to install gcc 3.2+ on our servers.

I also had some problems with snmp, trying to get that to work, both mostly startup-scripts etc.

I'll try to get time to give another go, then I can be more brief.


Thanks
Robin

[Robin Ericsson]

I just dug som more and it seems pretty hairy. First problem is that post_install-scripts doesn't convert with alien and it they don't work good on another than rh environment.

Also, kernel modules doesn't seem to compile on my 2.4.21, but I'm working on that.

[Jerome Henry]

Hi Robin,

I remember seing this question on another forum last spring (can't find the page back). The end of the story was that, unless you wanted to re-build the driver, it wouldn't work on another distro...

:[

J

[Robin Ericsson]

New update...

I've recompiled the drivers, and this is what I got running after playing a bit with the startup-scripts.


7667 pts/0 S< 0:00 /opt/compaq/cpqhealth/cpqevt/cevtd
7672 pts/0 S< 0:01 /opt/compaq/cpqhealth/cpqasm/casmd
7674 pts/0 S< 0:00 /opt/compaq/cpqhealth/cpqasm/casmd
8260 pts/0 S 0:00 cmafdtnpeerd
8262 pts/0 S 0:00 cmafdtnpeerd
8264 pts/0 S 0:00 cmafdtnpeerd
8265 pts/0 S 0:00 cmafdtnpeerd
8404 pts/0 S 0:00 cmasvrpeerd
8412 pts/0 S 0:00 cmastdeqd -p 30
8421 pts/0 S 0:00 cmahealthd -p 30 -s OK -t OK -i
8425 pts/0 S 0:00 cmasvrpeerd
8426 pts/0 S 0:00 cmasvrpeerd
8427 pts/0 S 0:00 cmasvrpeerd

this looks like it should?

I just should get snmp running, and after that hopefully the webagent will start aswell.

[Robin Ericsson]

Ok, seems to have things up and running as they should.

Startup-scripts aren't working the way they should, but atleast processes are starting.

I also got ILO and Smarty Array working through
web agent. However, looking at the system management homepage screenshot there is also a "operating system" that I'm missing from my server.