Microsoft device driver support, Linux device driver support – HP Integrated Lights-Out 4 User Manual

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Microsoft device driver support

When you are using Windows with iLO, the following drivers are available:

HP ProLiant iLO 3/4 Channel Interface Driver for Windows—This driver is required for the
operating system to communicate with iLO. Install this driver in all configurations.

HP ProLiant iLO 3/4 Management Controller Driver Package for Windows—This package
includes the following components:

hpqilo3core

provides iLO Management Controller Driver support.

hpqilo3service

provides the HP ProLiant Health Monitor Service and HP ProLiant

System Shutdown Service.

hpqilo3whea

is a helper service for Windows Hardware Error Architecture, which

passes information between iLO and the operating system in the event of a hardware
fault.

IMPORTANT:

The Management Controller Driver Package is required to support Automatic

Server Recovery and the HP Insight Management Agents or HP Insight Management WBEM
Providers (if installed). For more information, see

“Configuring iLO Management settings”

(page 106)

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Linux device driver support

When you are using Linux with iLO, the following drivers are available:

HP ProLiant Channel Interface Device Driver (hpilo)—This driver manages agent and tool
application access to iLO.

HP System Health Application and Command Line Utilities (hp-health)—A collection of
applications and tools that enables monitoring of fans, power supplies, temperature sensors,
and other management events. This RPM contains the hpasmd, hpasmlited, hpasmpld,
and hpasmxld daemons.

Loading and removing SLES and Red Hat drivers:

IMPORTANT:

These drivers are standard for SLES 11, Red Hat 5, and Red Hat 6.

Use the following commands to load the iLO drivers:

rpm -ivh hpilo-<d.vv.v-pp.Linux_version.arch>.rpm

rpm -ivh hp-health-<d.vv.v-pp.Linux_version.arch>.rpm

Where <d> is the Linux distribution and version, <vv.v-pp> are version numbers, and <arch>
is the architecture (i386 or x86_64).

Use the following commands to remove the iLO drivers:

rpm -e hpilo

rpm -e hp-health

Loading and removing Ubuntu drivers:

HP recommends subscribing to the Management Component Pack repository to ensure that your
Ubuntu systems have the latest HP software.

IMPORTANT:

For open-source Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and others), the

hpilo

driver is part of the Linux kernel, so the driver is loaded automatically at startup.

Use the following procedure to load the HP System Health Application and Command Line Utilities:

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