How to install HP-Linux Management Component Pack (MCP) on Proxmox 7.4

[inxamc]

Hello Forum,

due to a recent memory failure I wanted to install the HP-MCP on a HP-DL380 G7 in order to use hp-health for debugging.
This failed because the install procedure on the MCP-project page is outdated or rather deprecated (https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/project/mcp/)
The reasons are:
insecure download page for gpg key and repo (http://)
does not offer a debian project version 11.6 for bulleye
the procedure apt-key add is deprecated
Has anybody a secure procedure how to install the HP-MCP on Proxmox 7.4?
TIA

 

[inxamc]

Ups this post should have been in https://forum.proxmox.com/forums/proxmox-ve-installation-and-configuration.16/
How can I move it to the correct forum?

 

[ubu]

apt-key is deprecated but should still work in proxmox 7.x (but not in 8.x).

Can you download the deb file from http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/debian/pool/non-free/ and install it with
"dpkg -i package.deb", if dependecies are missing do "apt -f install" afterwards, or ude gdebi (apt install gdebi-core, gdebi package.deb

 

[inxamc]

Hello ubu,
Thank you for your reply! Tried to install hp-health, but it didn't work:

# dpkg -i hp-health_10.80-1874.10_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package hp-health.
(Reading database ... 102822 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack hp-health_10.80-1874.10_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking hp-health (10.80-1874.10) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hp-health:
hp-health depends on libc6-i686 | lib32gcc1; however:
Package libc6-i686 is not installed.
Package lib32gcc1 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package hp-health (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-13+deb11u7) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
hp-health

and

apt -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
hp-health
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 2,167 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 102868 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hp-health (10.80-1874.10) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-13+deb11u7) ...

I give up on this - dont' know if it is save to continue...

 

[ubu]

Ok this is a 32 bit program, so on your 64 bit system you need to install 32 bit support to install it

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

 

[inxamc]

Wow - thanks for checking carefully and hanging on! I just didn't see it
Tomorrow I'ii give it a try and come back...

 

[inxamc]

After adding i386 architecture, apt-get update failed,
beacuse installed Proxmox 7.4 and Ceph 16.2 do not
support i386 binaries.
So I gave up on this and removed i386-architecture.
I don't want to mess with the system since it is a production node.
Just for the records - Is it generally not advised to run i386-architecture on Proxmox 7?