HP 232664-006 manual Installing Hponcfg, Using Hponcfg, Windows server installation

Installing HPONCFG

The HPONCFG utility is delivered in separate packages for Windows® and Linux systems. For Windows® systems, it is delivered as a smart component. For Linux systems, it is delivered as an RPM package file. HPONCFG 1.1 is part of SmartStart 7.30.

Windows server installation

HPONCFG will be installed automatically when ProLiant support pack version 7.30 is installed. The individual HPONCFG 1.1 component cp005299.exe can be downloaded from the HP website (http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/lights-out/us/download/22571.html).

To install HPONCFG, run the self-extracting executable delivered in this package from within a directory of your choice on the managed server. This will be the directory from which the HPONCFG utility is executed. This directory will also contain the XML formatted input scripts, and will store the output files from execution of the utility. Be sure that the appropriate Management Interface Driver is installed. The sm2user.dll file must also be installed. Refer to the "HPONCFG requirements (on page 133)" for details on where to obtain this driver and file.

Linux server installation

HPONCFG will be installed automatically when ProLiant support pack version 7.30 is installed. The rpm of HPONCFG 1.1 for the respective Linux distributions can be downloaded from the HP website (http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/lights-out/us/).

The following is a list of HPONCFG RPMs and the Linux distributions they support:

RPM supported	Distributions
hponcfg-1.1.0-	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
5.rhel21.i386.rpm
hponcfg-1.1.0-	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
5.rhel3.i386.rpm
hponcfg-1.1.0-	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 / United Linux 1.0
5.sles8.i386.rpm

Install the appropriate package using the RPM installation utility. As an example for package installation, hponcfg RPM on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 can be installed by:

rpm -ivh hponcfg-1.1.0-5.rhel3.i386.rpm

If an older version of hponcfg RPM package is already installed on the system, run the following command to remove the older version before installing the new version of HPONCFG:

rpm –e hponcfg

The hprsm RPM package must be installed on the system before installing the hponcfg RPM package.

After installation, the HPONCFG executable can be found in the /sbin directory. Be sure that the appropriate Management Interface Driver is installed. Refer to the "HPONCFG requirements (on page 133)" for details on where to obtain this driver and file.

Using HPONCFG

The HPONCFG configuration utility reads an XML input file, formatted according to the rules of the RIBCL language, and produces a log file containing the requested output. A few sample scripts are included in the HPONCFG delivery package. A package containing various and comprehensive sample scripts is available for download on the HP website (http://h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/lights- out/us/download/20110.html).

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