Installing from the hp service pack for proliant, Locating files – HP Insight Diagnostics Software User Manual

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5.

Choose Select Components and ensure that the HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition for
Windows component is selected. Select or unselect other components as desired, then click
OK when done.

6.

Click Install to install Insight Diagnostics and any other selected components.

7.

Click Exit to exit HP SUM.

Installing HP Insight Diagnostics for Linux Online Edition

Installing from the Linux RPM Package Manager (RPM)

HP Insight Diagnostics for Linux is available for use with the Linux RPM utility. The following RPM
options are available:

Install

Query

Refresh

Uninstall

To install the Insight Diagnostics for Linux RPM file:
1.

Obtain the Insight Diagnostics RPM file. The RPM file is available at

http://www.hp.com

, or

within the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) disk image.

2.

Log in to the target server as root.

3.

Enter the following command:

rpm -Uvh <rpmFilename>

For example:

rpm -Uvh hpdiags-8.6.0-12.linux.x86_64.rpm

Installing from the HP Service Pack for ProLiant

1.

Obtain the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) ISO image from

http://www.hp.com/go/spp/

download

.

2.

As the super-user (root), mount the ISO image using the GUI, or from the command line using
the mount command.

NOTE:

You may also burn the ISO image to a writable DVD using appropriate software,

then insert the DVD into the optical disk drive of server and open its contents.

3.

As the super-user(root), navigate to the directory hp/swpackages and run hpsum.exe.

4.

In HP Smart Update Manager (SUM), configure the Default source and localhost target.
See HP SUM documentation for more information.

5.

Choose Select Components and ensure that the HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition for Linux
component is selected. Select or unselect other components as desired, then click OK when
done.

6.

Click Install to install Insight Diagnostics and any other selected components.

7.

Click Exit to exit HP SUM.

Locating files

During the installation, the HP Insight Diagnostics files are copied to the following directories:

The HP Insight Diagnostics executable file is copied to the /opt/hp/hpdiags directory.

The files for the web-based user interface, provided as a webapp, in the HP System
Management Homepage are copied to the /opt/hp/hpsmh/data/htdocs/hpdiags
directory.

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