HP equivalent tool to EMC's emcgrab

[Raymond E. Lilly]

Does anyone know if there is an HP tool available for general system configuration documentation like the one available from EMC?

I recently migrated off the EMC storage platform (onto and EVA) and would like to find an official HP equivalent. In other words, a tool that I have a legal right to use.

For those of you who are not familiar with the emcgrab tool, it creates an archive that contains the output from various system commands. For example, arp, bdf, cstm, df, ioscan, kctune, lvdisplay, swlist, etc… you name it, it’s in there. Very handy to have when you need it.

Thanks to all who reply,
Ray

[singh sanjeev · Accepted solution]

http://www.cfg2html.com/

above link will helpfull to you. configuration collector.

you can check on your HP system in /opt/cfg2html directory.

[singh sanjeev]

one more script like EMCgrab is nickel script.

[Bill Hassell]

nickel was written many years ago and the author has moved on to other things. cfg2html is much, much more thorough than emcgrab -- and emcgrab is getting a bit dated, especially for 11.31 and Itanium. Once you see the output from cfg2html, you'll not look back. cfg2html is actively maintained a a large group of volunteers for many different platforms.

HP created a tool called sysinfo but it was usually available only to support contract customers. Not sure where it is these days.

[Raj D.]

Ray, You can try : cfg2html: Link given below: This is free:
For : hp-ux 11.11 to 11.31 (PA+IA):
http://www.cfg2html.com/cfg2html_hpux_4.77-20100630-24588.depot

It produces a single .html file, once done, upload to your pc/workstation and you see all the important informations needed.


- Download the .depot file.
- Ftp to the server.
- Install using # swinstall -s `pwd`/file.depot
- cd /opt/cfg2html
- Execute: # ./cfg2html
- upload the `hostname`.html file to PC to view.

Enjoy,
Raj.

[Basheer_2]

Hello Raymond,

Yes, cfg2html is a very good doc tool.

other short ones are
print_manifest
machinfo (for itaniums)

[Don Mallory]

HP has a tool for windows hosts called "HP Report", but you have to get it from support.

Unfortunately, there is is no website to upload them to to get a "HEAT" report back as there was on PowerLink.

The HP Support Matrices are also a little more challenging. Find them at SPOCK (Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge) - http://h20272.www2.hp.com/

Most of mine are done with print_manifest which comes out of the IgniteUX bundle.

Best regards,
Don

[Rita C Workman]

I don't run EVA, but I haven't heard anyone here or other places ever mention any report that is as intrusive on gathering system infomation as the emcgrab.

So, even though folks mentioned a number of good utilities, I don't think there is one that gets you all that emcgrab gets.

Rgrds,
Rita

...maybe you could take what is already out there and build on it...

[chris huys_4]

Hi Raymond, Rita,

> So, even though folks mentioned a number of
> good utilities, I don't think there is one
> that gets you all that emcgrab gets.
tss, tss, tss.. ;)

I almost always ask customers to provide of their systems, output from symantec's VRTSexplorer output, to be found on support.symantec.com and HP's internal support tool, getsysinfo.sh.

These 2 outputs combined, together with some dedicated 11.31 ioscan output; ioscan -fnN, ioscan -m lun, ioscan -m hwpath and storage output like xpinfo/evainfo, will give a detailed general overview of a system and will probably give a lot more info then emc's emcgrab tool. ;)

Greetz,
Chris

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

in our enviroment we always used the SysInfo, directly delivered from HP.

mikap