FILE NAME: cmanic-7.1.0-5.linux.i686.rpm TITLE: NIC Agents for Servers - Linux VERSION: 7.1.0 LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: Management Agents DIVISIONS: Systems PRODUCTS AFFECTED: The following HP ProLiant servers are affected. BL10e BL10e G2 BL20p BL20p G2 BL30p BL40p DL320 ATA DL320 SCSI DL320 G2 ATA DL320 G2 SCSI DL360 DL360 G2 DL360 G3 DL360 G4 DL380 DL380 G2 DL380 G3 DL380 G4 DL560 DL580 DL580 G2 DL585 DL740 DL760 DL760 G2 ML310 ATA ML310 SCSI ML330 ML330e ML330 G2 ATA ML330 G2 SCSI ML330 G3 ATA ML330 G3 SCSI ML350 ML350 G2 ML350 G3 ML350 G4 ML370 ML370 G2 ML370 G3 ML370 G4 ML530 ML530 G2 ML570 ML570 G2 ML750 OPERATING SYSTEM: Red Hat Linux 7.2 Professional Red Hat Linux 7.3 Professional Red Hat Linux 8.0 Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 7 (SLES-7) SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 7 (SLES-8) SUSE LINUX Server 9 Enterprise Edition for x86 PREREQUISITES: HP ProLiant Advanced Server Management Package (hpasm) version 7.1.0-x must be installed before installing the NIC Agents for Linux. EFFECTIVE DATE: July 8, 2004 SUPERSEDES: cmanic-7.0.0-5.i686.rpm DESCRIPTION: This RPM (RPM Package Manager) package contains the NIC Agents for Linux. ENHANCEMENTS/FIXES: HP highly recommends to our customers that are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on ProLiant servers to also install Update 1 (2.4.21-9.EL kernel) or greater. More details are located here: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-017.html. Added support for gathering information using ethtools. This allows the NIC agent to work with network drivers that don't provide information through /proc. Added support for 802.3AD, ALB, and TLB bonding modes Added support for cpqNicIfPhysAdapterConfSpeedDuplex MIB object. HOW TO USE: 1. Download the cmanic-7.1.0-5.linux.i686.rpm and cmanic-7.1.0-5.linux.i686.txt to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory. 2. Refer to the cmanic-7.1.0-5.linux.i686.txt file for installation and configuration instructions. 3. After the RPM is installed, you may delete the previously downloaded RPM file. 4. Refer to the cmanic-7.1.0-5.linux.i686.txt file for additional information. Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies ==================================README================================== H E W L E T T - P A C K A R D C O M P A N Y NIC Agents - Linux Version 7.1.0 July 8, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction 2. Documentation Updates and Corrections 3. Known Issues 4. Installation 4.1 Before installation 4.2 Installing the NIC Agents 4.3 After installation 5. Bug Fixes/New Features 6. Supported Products ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction The "NIC Agents - Linux" software release contains the SNMP Network Interface Card Agents and related files that enable Linux to support the NIC reporting features of Insight Manager 7. 2. Documentation Updates and Corrections None. 3. Known Issues 1) The NIC agents will not recognize network configuration changes, such as adding or removing an interface from a network team, until a full poll duration has passed. For information to be consistent between all agents after a configuration change, a full poll cycle must pass for each agent - poll times can be different for each agent. See poll_time later in this document for details on the polling duration of the NIC agents. 2) Messages in /var/spool/compaq/cma.log related to parsing the snmpd.conf file, strings containing "Did not find" when parsing /usr/share/snmp/mibs/*, and strings containing "Unlinked OID in". 3) Link status traps forwarded from RIB/iLO don't contain the IpAddress field, while traps sent directly from the NIC agents do. 4) Network interfaces must be named eth0 through ethN, network bonds (teams) must be named bond0 through bondN, and VLAN interfaces must be named ethN.X or bondN.X (N is the interface number and X is the VLAN tag). 5) When teaming NICs using the bonding driver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, the IP address for the team will not display. This is due to the ifup script loading the network interfaces before configuring the bonding interfaces, and exposing the SNMP issue documented in the bonding.txt file. 4. Installation 4.1 Before installation 1) The NIC Agents require: HP ProLiant Advanced Server Management Package, version 7.1.0, (hpasm-7.1.0-x) One of the following Linux distributions: - Red Hat Linux 7.2 Professional - Red Hat Linux 7.3 Professional - Red Hat Linux 8.0 Professional - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3* - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 7 (SLES-7) - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 (SLES-8) - SUSE LINUX Server 9 Enterprise Edition for x86 * See item 5 in Known Issues section of this document. HP tested and supported NIC drivers for ProLiant servers from http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/ softwaredrivers.html If using network teaming (bonding), the tested and supported bonding driver available from http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/ softwaredrivers.html must be used. If using VLANs, the tested and supported 8021q driver available from http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/ softwaredrivers.html must be used. 2) The NIC Agents are configured to start at the same runlevels as the snmpd daemon. Ensure the snmpd daemon is configured to start at the desired runlevels before installing the NIC Agents, otherwise the NIC Agents will need to be manually configured after installation using chkconfig or a similar utility. 4.2 Installing the NIC Agents Use following command to install or upgrade NIC Agents: # rpm -Uvh cmanic-7.1.0-x.linux.i686.rpm Where "x" is the version number of the NIC Agent package. 4.3 After installation a. The NIC Agents are configured to start at the same runlevels as the snmpd daemon. To start the NIC agent immediately after installation, enter the following command: # /etc/init.d/cmanic start or # /etc/rc.d/init.d/cmanic start b. The latest HP tested and supported NIC drivers for ProLiant servers that have been tested with this agent should be downloaded from http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/ softwaredrivers.html. c. The following command line arguments can be passed to cmanicd from the /opt/compaq/nic/etc/cmanicd script: -p poll_time specifies the number of seconds between data caching/poll intervals. NIC drivers are only queried when a request comes in and the cached information is older than the specified poll interval. The default value is 20 seconds. The minimum poll time is 10 seconds. -s set_state specifies whether SNMP set commands are allowed for this agent. A set_state of OK (default) means that SNMP set commands are allowed. A set_state of NOT_OK means that SNMP set commands are not allowed. -t trap_state specifies whether the NIC agent is allowed to send traps. A trap_state of OK (default) indicates the NIC agent may send SNMP traps. A trap_state of NOT_OK means that NIC agent is not allowed to send traps. For example, to set the poll interval to 30 seconds and prevent traps one would change PFLAGS= to PFLAGS="-p30 -t NOT_OK" in the /opt/compaq/nic/etc/cmanicd script. The resource control script to start the cmanicd daemon is cmanic (/etc/init.d/cmanic). 5. Bug Fixes/New Features HP highly recommends to our customers that are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on ProLiant servers to also install Update 1 (2.4.21-9.EL kernel) or greater. More details are located here: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-017.html. Added support for gathering information using ethtools. This allows the NIC agent to work with network drivers that don't provide information through /proc. Added support for 802.3AD, ALB, and TLB bonding modes Added support for cpqNicIfPhysAdapterConfSpeedDuplex MIB object. 6. Supported Products The NIC Agents for Linux are supported on HP servers running one of the following Linux distributions: - Red Hat Linux 7.2 Professional - Red Hat Linux 7.3 Professional - Red Hat Linux 8.0 Professional - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3* - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 7 - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 * See item 5 in Known Issues section of this document. HP highly recommends to our customers that are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on ProLiant servers to also install Update 1 (2.4.21-9.EL kernel) or greater. More details are located here: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-017.html. Refer to the "Linux Server Certification Matrix" at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/hplinuxcert.html for a complete list of HP ProLiant servers that have been tested with the above distributions and versions. Use of this software on equipment not specifically tested by HP may produce unreliable or undesirable results. HP does not warrant the fitness or compatibility of this software on untested hardware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.