HP Agentless Management Service

Hello,

For the unmet dependency with hp-health on Gen8 I found a workaround :

https://unix.stackexchange.com/ques...unfulfilled-dependencies-of-installed-package

Code:
apt install equivs

equivs-control lib32gcc1.control
sed -i 's/<package name; defaults to equivs-dummy>/lib32gcc1/g' lib32gcc1.control
equivs-build lib32gcc1.control
dpkg -i lib32gcc1_1.0_all.deb

equivs-control libc6-i686.control
sed -i 's/<package name; defaults to equivs-dummy>/libc6-i686/g' libc6-i686.control
equivs-build libc6-i686.control
dpkg -i libc6-i686_1.0_all.deb

It will create/install dummy packages and dependenties will be met.

Code:
/tmp# dpkg -i hp-health_10.80-1874.10_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package hp-health.
(Reading database ... 168570 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack hp-health_10.80-1874.10_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking hp-health (10.80-1874.10) ...
Setting up hp-health (10.80-1874.10) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-13+deb11u3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
/tmp# dpkg -i hp-snmp-agents_10.60-2953.16_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package hp-snmp-agents.
(Reading database ... 168611 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack hp-snmp-agents_10.60-2953.16_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking hp-snmp-agents (10.60-2953.16) ...
Setting up hp-snmp-agents (10.60-2953.16) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
/tmp#
hello, its been a while since ive commented on this thread.

with your help i was able to install the hp-helath and hp-snmp-agents, after i installed the hp-ams on my g8

did your fans drop-in speed after you installed the packages? mine did not.
 
hello, its been a while since ive commented on this thread.

with your help i was able to install the hp-helath and hp-snmp-agents, after i installed the hp-ams on my g8

did your fans drop-in speed after you installed the packages? mine did not.
Hi,

Sorry but I don't have HP Gen8 anymore.

But I was running a modded ILO firmware with fan control:
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/hix44v/silence_of_the_fans_pt_2_hp_ilo_4_273_now_with/

Did not test the updated mod :
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/sx3ldo/hp_ilo4_v277_unlocked_access_to_fan_controls/
 
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correction : ssacli is required to show raid status or smart disks healt status from point of view of the controller.

afaik, p440ar haven't True hba/it mode (is any P series has ?)

You can check SMART manually with smartctl command with -d cciss option.
if works, you can use wrapper here to allow pve webgui display directly
 
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afaik, p440ar haven't True hba/it mode (is any P series has ?)

Just powered on one of standby machines to verify the controller.
I've been looking earlier for this feature.

Now the onboard p440ar acts as an HBA and all devices are passed through (like an old scsi controller would have) to the OS.
/dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc without any further creation of partition from the p440ar bios. Only the disks should be wiped with some tool if they contain some old array information. Maybe it's not true HBA but then i would not know how to call this.

Screenshot from 2023-06-13 11-38-05.png

Never mind the smartinfo... this is production environment, so i can live with it.
 
...

And here's Agentless Management Service for gen9 and below
Code:
cd
wget https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/debian/pool/non-free/hp-ams_2.6.2-2551.13_amd64.deb
dpkg -i hp-ams_2.6.2-2551.13_amd64.deb
Remove deb when it's installed if you don't want to keep it :)
Rich (BB code):
rm hp-ams_2.6.2-2551.13_amd64.deb
...

Cheers
Marcus
Thanks for nice manual. Based on the first post I have used newer ubuntu package. And works too. Proxmox version is 8.0.4, ProLiant DL380p Gen8.

Code:
cd
wget https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/debian/pool/non-free/hp-ams_2.8.3-3056.1ubuntu16_amd64.deb
dpkg -i hp-ams_2.8.3-3056.1ubuntu16_amd64.deb
rm hp-ams_2.8.3-3056.1ubuntu16_amd64.deb

Fans are spinning like usual with ESXi and temperatures correspond to it.
 
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Fans are running at 13% and one on 19%. What changed their speed a lot (~25%) was when I had removed the memory without heat sink. I have also replaced the heat sink on HD Controller. I use static low power mode (since I have enough processing power) with 2xE5-2650L v2 @ 1.70GHz to make the system quieter.
 
I followed #23 for my gen10+ server.
As I am on Proxmox 8 meanwhile and there was no mcp for bookworm available I just installed the bullseye repository which was working as well.
Anyhow when checking updates in Proxmox gui, there was a red flag indicated with this repository.

This is to announce, the mcp bookworm repository is available meanwhile.

Just update your apt source file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Code:
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hpePublicKey2048-archive-keyring.gpg] http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp bookworm/current non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hpe.list

You could change your existing file with nano as well.
Now in the gui just update and upgrade and voila you are on bookworm mcp.
 

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