Minimum requirements for Linux x86 servers

When running HP SUM on Windows to discover and perform dependency checks on targets running a Linux operating system, the following items must be available:

• A local administrative system with 1 GB of memory
• glibc 2.2.4-26 or later
• gawk 3.1.0-3 or later
• sed 3.02-10 or later
• pciutils-2.1.8-25.i386.rpm or later

Be sure that the following platform-specific compatibility libraries are also installed.

• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4x86 servers:

  libnl (required for QLogic and Emulex drivers)

• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD64/EM64T servers:

  libnl (required for QLogic and Emulex drivers)

• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86 servers:

  libnl (required for QLogic and Emulex drivers)

• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD64/EM64T servers:

  libnl (required for QLogic and Emulex drivers)

• For SLES 10 x86 servers:

  libnl (required for QLogic and Emulex drivers)

• For SLES 10 AMD64/EM64T servers:
  • libnl (required for QLogic and Emulex drivers)
  • e2fsprogs-32bit
• For SLES 11 x86 servers:
  • libstdc++33-3.3.3-11.9.i586 or later
  • libnl (required for QLogic and Emulex drivers)
• For SLES 11 AMD64/EM64T servers:

  libstdc++33-32bit-3.3.3-11.9 or later

• libnl (required for QLogic and Emulex drivers)
• Enable the network ports that HP SUM uses. For more information, see "Enabling ports in HP Smart Update Manager."

  NOTE: The following versions listed are needed as a minimum. Later versions of these might be used as well.

  NOTE: Ensure that each NIC has an IP address assigned. To get the IP address assigned to a NIC, enter the dhclient command in the console, which enables the NIC interfaces and retrieves an IP address. If a NIC does not have an IP address, HP SUM appears to hang on start up.

• RHEL6 console mode

  NOTE: No X console in either x86 or x86_64 servers. To run HP SUM in silent mode, you must install the base server with defaults and the following RPMs.

  • lm_sensors-libs-3.1.1-10.el6.<arch>.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.5-27.el6.<arch>.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.5.27.el6.<arch>.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.el6.<arch>.rpm
  • redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-25.el6.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-devel-2.6.32-71.el6.<arch>.rpm
  • rpm-build-4.8.0-12.el6.<arch>.rpm
  • gcc-4.4.4-13.el6.<arch>.rpm
• RHEL6 graphical mode

  NOTE: If the user elects to install the XWindows support, then the following steps apply to both x86 and x86_64 servers.

  NOTE: The following items must be the 32-bit version even under x86_64 architecture as HP SUM and several of the RPMs require 32-bit libraries installed.

  • libuuid-2.17.2-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • freetype-2.3.11-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • libSM-1.1.0-7.1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libICE-1.0.6-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libXi-1.3-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • libX11-1.3-2.el6.i686.rpm
  • libXext-1.1-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • libxcb-1.5-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libXau-1.0.5-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libXrender-0.9.5-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libXrandr-1.3.0-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • libXfixes-4.0.4-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libXcursor-1.1.10-2.el6.i686.rpm
  • fontconfig-2.8.0-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • expat-2.0.1-9.1.el6.i686.rpm
  • expect-5.44.1.15-2.el6.<arch>.rpm
  • zlib-1.2.3-25.el6.i686.rpm
  • libstdc++-4.4.4-13.el6.i686.rpm
• net-snmp-5.5-27.el6.<arch>.rpm

More information

HP SUM Help Contents

HP SUM Glossary

To download the HP SUM User Guide, go to the HP website.