HP Proliant & Integrated Management tools on a Fedora 14 System?

[hunsheridan]

HI Fellows,

Is it possible to install HP Array Configuration Tools for ProLiant or similar that come with a typical ProLiant DL 380 onto a Fedora 14 system?

I Haven't had much luck so far using conventional "push in CD and start" methods. Everytime I try, something goes wong and it messes up the system so badly I need to treinstall.

Any experience with this?

Thanks!

[DBelton]

I would download the linux version from HP. It is in rpm format

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...4f88bfb8de32a2

Then install it using yum or rpm

try this and see if it works:

su -
cd <folder where you downloaded rpm file>
yum --nogpgcheck install cpqacuxe-8.60-7.0.noarch.rpm

[hunsheridan]

Hi there,

Thank you very much for answering.

It installs allright... but this is not the root of the issue: it requires a bunch of other things linke HP System Management Homepage which in turn requires other things...

I tried installing all that from officical HP RPMs... At some point my system simply locked up (no error message, not even in syslog) and never booted again properly. (I believe at that time it must have installed several kernel modules.)

HP support of course says "please use the latest Redhat whatever version" and refuse to even start a discussion about installing on Fedora. Sure. It will work on RHEL, I do that all the time. But this is Fedora.,,

Seriously, this seems to be more problematic than installing a couple of HP RPM-s.... Or it's just me, I don't know... :-(

[DBelton]

Could be that you are using the older versions designed for RHEL 5. There have been major changes in the core packages in Fedora and some of the older packages may not be compatible anymore.

Try the version for RHEL 6, grab all of the rpm's and try installing those.

32 bit:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...&swEnvOID=4095

64 bit:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...&swEnvOID=4103

[hunsheridan]

Could be...

OK I'll try that and report back if it worked!