Compaq Health on Debian Woody
Last Update Aug. 16th 2003

You have an HP-Proliant-Server and have installed Debian (woody, bf24) on that Server? No Support from HP/Compaq for Debian - although they claim that "many HP employees are members of the Debian development community"?

Well - this page will help you install the Compaq Health driver on Debian. So you can read the HW-Logs, your FAN's noise will be reduced and most important you can turn on/off the impressing blue-light-button on the server.

This Instructions would have not been possible without the Support from AKH-Linz (General Hospital Linz/Austria) and it's IT Department (especially Mr. Andreas Stiglbauer). It's their equipment I tried the scripts and the drivers on.

So - let's rock:

1. Be root.

2. Create a working directory and change to that directory

   # mkdir /tmp/workdir
   # cd /tmp/workdir
   

3. Download HP Server Managemenet Drivers and Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (to your working directory) from the HP Support Site at

   http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/index.html

4. Use alien to convert the rpm package to a tgz-file

   # alien -t hpasm-6.40.0-16.RedHat-AS-2.1.i386.rpm
   

   (assuming the Version is 6.40.0-16)

5. extract the sources

   # tar zxvf hpasm-6.40.0.tgz ./opt/compaq/cpqhealth
   

6. recompile the drivers

   # cd opt/compaq/cpqhealth
   # make -f cpqhealth.mk
   

7. To install drivers to the kernel use following script ...

   #! /bin/sh
   
   mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/cpq
   
   cp cpqevt/cpqevt.o -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/cpq
   cp cpqasm/cpqasm.o -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/cpq
   
   depmod -av
   
   modprobe cpqevt
   modprobe cpqasm
   
   ./cpqasm/cpqasm_mknod.sh
   
   cp -rp cpqevt/cevtd /usr/sbin
   cp -rp cpqasm/casmd /usr/sbin
   cp -rp hplog /usr/sbin
   cp -rp hpuid /usr/sbin
   

8. To activate the drivers at bootup,
   • copy following script to /etc/init.d/cpqhealth

     #!/bin/sh
     #
     # kianusch@sk-tech.net
     # Tue Aug 12 14:22:06 CEST 2003
     #
     
     case "$1" in
        
     start)
        /usr/sbin/cevtd
        /usr/sbin/casmd
        ;;
     stop )
        /usr/sbin/casmd -t
        /usr/sbin/cevtd -t
        ;;
     installme )
        chmod 755 $0
        update-rc.d cpqhealth start 27 S . stop 81 1 .
        ;;
     esac
     
     exit 0
     

   • Make sure the Kernel Driver are loaded during boot sequence by including the drivers into /etc/modules:

     # cat - < _EOT_ >> /etc/modules
     cpqevt
     cpqasm
     _EOT_
     

   • install the init.d script and start it

     # /etc/init.d/cpqhealth installme
     # /etc/init.d/cpqhealth start
     

9. So now you can use hplog to read/manipulate the HW Log, and hpuid to controll the UID-Led.

10. Check Compaq Storage Agents on Debian Woody.

11. If you care - please contact HP/Compaq to request support for Debian. They ignored my eMail's till now - but who knows...

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Kianusch Sayah Karadji EMail: kianusch@sk-tech.net