Support Note for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Operating System on Itanium® 2-based Systems
Firmware Requirements and Manageability
Firmware Requirements and Manageability
Firmware Requirements
System Firmware revision 1.61 or greater is required for Linux to be installed on your Itanium 2-based system. To determine your current version, type "INFO FW" at the EFI Shell prompt. The firmware revision should be 1.61 or later.
For more information on firmware, go to www.hp.com/go/bizsupport. Select “download drivers/software,” then click on “workstation” under the “personal computing” heading. Scroll down the page to “hp workstations - Itanium,” and click on the appropriate product (e.g. hp workstation zx6000).
Manageability
TopTools
HP TopTools Device Manager (TTDM) is a Web-based tool for IA-32 systems that manages and tracks network resources and monitors performance of machines running the TopTools agents. TTDM runs only on IA-32 systems using Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and Windows XP Professional. You can download TTDM for IA-32 Windows systems at http://www.hp.com/toptools/ if you want to use such a machine to track resources and monitor performance on an Itanium 2-based system running TopTools agents.
Based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), TopTools agents allow you to remotely monitor information about your Itanium 2-based system from any SNMP browser. The SNMP agents for TopTools that enable remote management capabilities on your Itanium 2-based system are available at http://www.software.hp.com. For more details on using the SNMP protocol, see http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net.