Release Notes: Intel® Server Management Pack Agent for Linux* OS


Description: 

The Intel® Server Management Pack Agent for Linux* OS consists of three components:

    1) BMC-Utility: to configure LAN Settings, Serial Over LAN(SOL) Settings, 
       Default Channel Configuration and BMC Anonymous User Password Settings.

    2) Intel(R) Server Agent v1.0: This provides SNMPv2c support to retrieve CPU 
       and Memory data from OS.

    3) RAID Agents: This provides SNMPv1/v2c support for RAID monitoring.

1.1	Supported Operating Systems

 The following Operating Systems are supported:
 *	Red Hat* Linux* Enterprise 4 AS U4 - 32 bit and x86_64  
 *	Red Hat* Linux* Enterprise 5 AS - 32 bit and x86_64
 *	SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 9 U4 - 32 bit and x86_64
 *	SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 10 U2 - 32 bit and x86_64


1.2	Supported Hardware

 The following hardware is supported by the Server Management Agent and BMC-Utility:
 *	IPMI 2.0 Based Servers with BMC and iBMC
 *	IPMI 1.5 Based Servers with BMC and mBMC
 
 Minimum requirement for target system will be:
 *	Processor belongs to Intel® Pentium 4 Processor family or above (or) Intel Xeon® Processor Family or above


1.3	Supported Platforms

	S5500BC
	S5520UR
	S5500HCV
	S5520HC
	S5520SC
	S5000PAL
	S5000XAL
	S5000PSL
	SC5400RA
	S5000XVN
	S5000XSL
	S5000VSA
	S5000VCL
	S3000AHX
	S3000AHV
	S3000AH
	S7000FC4UR
	S3000SHX
	S3000SHV
	S3000SHL
	S3000AHC
	X38MLST
	S5400SF
	S5300SF
	

1.4	Installation

 The script install-smsagent.sh should take care of most common installation 
 situations. Copy the entire folder "linuxagent" from DVD to a local folder in Linux* OS.
 The "linuxagent" folder is also present in %ProgramFiles/Intel/NGSMS in the systems where 
 Intel® Server Management Pack version 3.5 is installed.

 Before installing the SMS agent in Linux*, complete the following configuration
 
 * Make sure that net-snmp RPM is installed in Linux* Server
 * In Red Hat* OS, make sure that net-snmp-utils RPM is also installed (specific to Red Hat only)
 * Make sure that the SELinux under firewall setting of Red Hat* OS is configured for 
     disabled or permissive mode (specific to Red Hat only)
 * Configure the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf (/etc/snmpd.conf in case of SuSE 9) file as described below 
    to allow read access to the OID subtree (enterprise).1.3.6.1.4.1
    
     Enter the following line to allow readonly access to all OIDs with community string as public
        rocommunity public
    
     OR 

     Remove or comment out the sections of snmpd.conf (Red Hat* OS provides the default configuration) 
     file where security name, group, view names and access are configured to some default values and 
     replace with the following configuration: 
    
	# map the community name "public" into a "security name"
	#       sec.name  source          community
	com2sec    SMSUser  default       public

	# map the security name into a group name:
	#       groupName      securityModel securityName
	group   SMSGroup         v2c           SMSUser
	
	# create a view to let the group have rights to:
	#       name           incl/excl     subtree         mask(optional)
	view    SMSView        included   .1.3.6.1.4.1
	
	# grant the group read-only access to the SMSView.
	#       group          context sec.model sec.level prefix read   write  notif
	access  SMSGroup        ""      any       noauth    exact  SMSView none none
 
 
 After the above configuration is completed, run the following commands under ./linuxagent/
 
     chmod +x ./install-smsagent.sh
     ./install-smsagent.sh Mgmt-Server-IP COMMUNITY

 where Mgmt-Server-IP is the IP Address of the SCE Server and COMMUNITY is the community string used for SNMP communication
 
 The script has to be run with 'root' privilege.  

 
 
1.5	Uninstallation

 The script uninstall-smsagent.sh can be used for uninstallation of Linux* Agents
 Copy the uninstall-smsagent.sh file from "linuxagent" folder to a local folder in Linux* OS.
 
 Run the following commands from the folder where uninstall script is present.
 
     chmod +x ./uninstall-smsagent.sh
     ./uninstall-smsagent.sh 

 The script has to be run with 'root' privilege.


1.6	Trouble-shooting

  BMC Utility
      Please refer Release Notes of BMC-Utility under BMC-Util folder.

  Intel Server Agent :
      The status of the service can be viwed using "/etc/init.d/intelserveragent status" command.

  LSI RAID Agent : 
      Please refer readme.txt under raidagents\LSI_<raid-type>\

1.7	Known Issues

 BMC Utility
    Please refer ReleaseNotes of BMC-Utility under BMC-Util folder.

 Intel Server Agent: 
    None

 LSI RAID Agent
    Please refer readme.txt under raidagents\LSI_<raid-type>\