Prerequisites

The CIM Extension authenticates using PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) and supports the following password encryption mechanisms:

•Blowfish

•DES

•MD5

NOTE: All ProPacks require that pam-devel rpm is installed.

Network Port Must Be Open

The CIM Extension uses port 4673 by default to communicate with the management server. Verify the network port is open. Refer to the documentation accompanying your Altix host for more information. If you need to use a different port, see ”Permanently Changing the Port a CIM Extension Uses (UNIX Only)” on page 388.

Verifying SNIA HBA API Support

The management server can only talk to host bus adapters (HBAs) that support the SNIA HBA API. The hbatest program, which is accessible from the CIM Extension CD-ROM, lists the name and number for all HBAs that support the SNIA HBA API. In some instances, hbatest may report it cannot find an HBA driver even though an HBA driver is installed. Try installing a different version of the HBA driver that is SNIA compliant.

IMPORTANT: The Emulex driver does not contain the required library that is required by HP Storage Essentials. You must install Emulex HBAnywhere software so that HP Storage Essentials can discover hosts configured with HBAnywhere and hbatest can detect the Emulex host bus adapter.

1.Go to the Altix/tools directory on the CIM Extension 2 CD-ROM.

2.Enter the following at the command prompt:

If the host is SGI ProPack3, enter the following at the command prompt:

./hbatest_PP3.

If the host is SGI ProPack 4 or later, enter the following at the command prompt:

./hbatest

On SGI ProPack 3, the SGI-branded HBA API library for QLogic and LSI HBAs is built into the operating system kernel.

On SGI ProPack 4 and later, contact your vendor for the vendor-specific HBA API library for LSI HBA. Discovery of ProPack4 hosts with QLogic HBA is not supported.

202 Installing the CIM Extension for SGI ProPack for Linux