Version Control Agent for Linux

[Daniel_141]

Hello all!

Does any one know if there is a Version control Agent for linux.

I can download Support Pack 6.30 for Linux RedHat 7.3, but how do i deploy it without VCA in IM7?

Best regards

/Daniel

[Gaetano Giunta]

AFAIK there is no such thing (yet).

I uploaded to our sw repository the files from the Linux SupportPack 6.30, but they where not even correctly recognized by the repository manager.

HP responded to my questions (see previous post in forum): 'not supported'

I hope it will be supported in the next version of IM/supportpacks...

[Gaetano Giunta]

Doh, forgot to actually answer the question!

My best guess is: upload the supportpack by ftp to all managed linux boxen, unzip it and launch the provided setup script (this is new - with version 6.20 you had to manually install all pieces)

[Michael Garner_1]

You are correct that there is not a VCA for Linux currently available. There is one in plan which will hopefully be out later this year.

The VCRM v1.0 will not recognize the Linux PSP. There is a new version of the VCRM that will recognize the files in the Linux PSP, but isn't able to deploy them until the VCA for Linux is available.

To deploy the Linux PSP, you will need to move the files via FTP, NFS, or SCP to the server where you want it deployed. Once it is there, execute the ./install.sh script to deploy the PSP. Since the Linux PSP is built on top of X-Windows technology, you can shell into the remote servers to execute the deployment utility and see the output on your local system.

To net it out, all of the pieces for IM7 deployment of the Linux PSP are not currently available, but are being worked.

Michael Garner
HP Linux PSP Developer

[Scott Shaffer]

While we don't have a Version Control-based solution yet for Linux, you can roll out that PSP to multiple Linux servers using Insight Manager 7. Take a look at the Application Launch feature in Insight Manager 7. You can configure it to run against all of your Linux servers and it will call a script passing in the information about each individual Linux server on EVs.

To do this, write a script that runs on the IM7 server (in whatever scripting language you prefer) that will connect to a linux system (the system names and IP addresses are set in Environment Variables by IM7), copy over the PSP files (say via FTP), and invokes the install.sh (using SSH is a good approach.) You can debug and test out your script on your local system, then deploy it up to IM7 for the actual execution. Make sure you write out good debug information (to a file) so you can troubleshoot your script when it's running under IM7.

Processing the EVs and paramters in a scripting language like Perl is easy to do, even on Windows, for this sort of thing.