HP Integrity Essentials Pack for Linux Software Installing the MPT Fusion HBA Drivers for Linux

1.Go to http://www.hp.com/.

2.Click Support & Drivers.

3.Click Download drivers and software (and firmware).

4.In the For Product field, enter the model number of your Fibre Channel adapter (for example, AD300A).

5.Press Go.

6.Select the appropriate OS from the Product search results list.

7.Click the Download button for the latest Linux Driver Kit for Qlogic HBAs and Qlogic-based mezzanine HBAs driver to obtain a tar archive of all necessary files.

NOTE: All drivers for a given brand of adapter are contained in one driver kit. In this case, all drivers for Qlogic adapters are contained in this driver kit.

NOTE: HP uses Linux Inbox drivers starting with RHEL 5.3, SLES11, and SLES10SP3. However, the Linux Inbox driver kits are required and provided to enable the HP Insight Foundation Suite for Integrity with Linux.

8.Unpack the driver files in the kit. For example, the following command could be used:

#tar zxvf hp_qla2x00-date.tar.gz

9.Change to the directory that was created in the previous step.

10.Install the driver:

#./INSTALL

For additional information, see the documentation that is included with the Linux Driver Kit for Qlogic HBAs and Qlogic-based mezzanine HBAs.

Installing the MPT Fusion HBA Drivers for Linux

Support for the HP Insight Management Agent for the Core 8 port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HBA on the rx2660 server, or BL860c, and BL870c server blades is not included with the MPT Fusion driver that is shipped with the Red Hat and Novell Linux distributions. However, HP Insight Management Agent support is included with the MPT Fusion driver that is shipped with RHEL4.6.

If you are running HP Insight Management Agents for these HBAs on one of the listed servers, you must update the driver using the following steps:

1.Go to the http://www.hp.com/support/itaniumservers/ website.

2.Click on the appropriate product link for your server.

3.Click the Download drivers and software link.

4.Select a software/driver language from the list.

5.Click on the appropriate Linux distribution link.

All of the available driver and software updates are provided in a categorized listing for your selection.

6.Click the Download button for the latest MPTLinux Driver Update for Integrity Servers driver to download the tar file.

7.Install the driver on your system:

# rpm -ivh <downloaded driver name>

8.Reboot your system.

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