Installing device drivers and Management

 

Agents

 

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Systems using Linux®..............................................................................................................................

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Systems using Microsoft® Windows®

 

You can use the Integrity Support Pack to automatically install the device drivers, Event Notification

 

Service, and Management Agents, or you can install these items manually.

 

The Integrity Support Pack is located on the Smart Setup media. To install the Integrity Support Pack, launch Express Setup from EBSU and follow the on-screen instructions.

Installing device drivers

The drivers for the controller are located on the Smart Setup media. Updates are posted to the support page of the HP website (http://www.hp.com/support/itaniumservers).

Installation instructions are provided with the drivers.

Installing the Event Notification Service

The HP Smart Array SAS/SATA Event Notification Service provides event notification to the Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 64-bit system event log and the HP Integrated Management log.

The most recent version of the software component is available on the support page of the HP website

(http://www.hp.com/support/itaniumservers). Installation instructions are provided with the component.

Installing Management Agents

The Management Agents are available on the Smart Setup media. The most recent versions of the agents are available on the support page of the HP website (http://www.hp.com/support/itaniumservers). Installation instructions are provided with the agents.

If the new agents do not function correctly, you might also need to update Systems Insight Manager. The latest version of Systems Insight Manager is available for download at the HP website (http://www.hp.com/servers/manage).

Systems using Linux®

The drivers for the controller are bundled into the supported Red Hat and Novell Linux distributions.

In a system that does not yet have Linux installed:

1.Follow the standard controller installation procedure.

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