Preventing HPSUM from installing certain drivers

[Mikael Rönnbäck]

How can I prevent HPSUM from installing certain specific drivers ?

There are two items that are most important to me at the moment, (but possibly others in the future). First of all I would like to prevent installation of WBEM, which always seems to get pre-selected, and second I need to suppress installation of Qlogic SAN drivers, since we need very specific driver versions to retain support from the SAN vendor.

[Buhl, Bent]

Hi
If you use the /user_location parameter of hpsum.exe, you can just delete the unwanted softpaqs from the folder.
Regards
Bent Buhl

[Mikael Rönnbäck]

Yes, that's true, but can I in any way block the installations rather than depending on non-existant files ?

I'm thinking scenarios where you run HPSUM with for example the option to connect to HP.com for latest drivers ?

I see that as a potentially useful feature when you have many diverse hardware setups, loads of different machines, loads of different controllers, disks, NICs and loads of operating systems. It's quite a pain to track down every different piece of driver/firmware since they're different between the OS's as well.

[Buhl, Bent]

If you want to use hpsum.exe /use_web, I see no possibility to exclude softpaqs.
Personally I would not dare to get whatever new drivers are published by HP in my server deployment.
If you use to configure any component, you will loose that configuration, when HP publishes a newer version of that component on their FTP site.
We use to download the newest PSP to a folder, configure the componetns and test it on all OS/Hardware combinations. Until next PSP is released, only critical softpaqs are added to the location folder.
We used to call the bpxxxxxx.cmd, but would like to use HPSUM instead, because we use that for firmware upgrades.
Regards
Bent Buhl

[Cederberg]

Hi!

What if you edit the xml file for the PSP in question. If you have the PSP's already downloaded in a folder there should be an XML file in there aswell. In the end of that XML file the softpaq's are listed with option to deny/allow the install of that paq.



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[Gerardo Arceri]

Editing the bpXXXXXX.xml file supplied with the installation files will do the trick, well at least it does in Linux.

[Michael Garner_1 · Accepted solution]

Mikael,
To prevent the installation of the WBEM provider, use the /use_snmp parameter with HPSUM. This will force the installation of the SNMP agents and prevent the installation of the WBEM agents.

As for the QLogic, Emulex and Brocade FC HBA adapters, we do not put them in the web catalog used to pull updates from the HP site today because of customers who do not necessarily want to use the HP provided drivers. In the future, if we decide to add the FC HBA drivers to the web catalog, HPSUM will have a new command-line option that would allow you to bypass FC HBA driver installation to prevent possible issues with the storage infrastructure.

Regards,
Michael Garner
HPSUM Architect

[Mikael Rönnbäck]

Splendid! Lots of thanks for the answer Michael.