Red Hat 7.0 Linux Clinic for
Compaq Servers Installation Guide
Updated June 20, 2001
Created May 14, 2001

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Contents

1. Installation Type opening screen
2. Select Installation Type
3. LILO Configuration (LInux LOader)
4. Set Up Networking
5. Choose Time Zone
6. Account Configuration
7. Authentication Configuration
8. Package Group Selection
9. This ends the installation
10. Reset the date
11. Reconfigure Xwindows

1. Downloading files needed for Installation of Health Driver and Agents
2. Install the Compaq Health Driver and Agents
3. Installation of Compaq Health Driver
4. Installation of Compaq Certified e100 driver
5. Installation of Snmpd
6. Installation of Compaq Foundation Agents
7. Installation of Compaq Nic Agents
8. Installation of Compaq Storage Agents
9. Installation of Compaq Remote Insight Board
10. Installation of the Compaq Survey Utility
11. Finish Installation of Compaq Health Driver and Agents
12. Determining if agents are running

1. Compaq Network Cards and their drivers
2. Compaq SCSI Controllers and their drivers
3. Compaq Array Controllers: cpqarray driver
4. Compaq Array Controllers: cciss

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Overview

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Hardware Preparation

1. Boot to the System Erase floppy or boot to the SmartStart CD and select System Erase.
2. Once the system is erased, insert the SmartStart CD and power on the server
3. Set the time and date correctly.
4. Choose Manual SmartStart Installation Path.
5. Select Linux as the OS to install.
6. If necessary, configure the array controller.
7. SmartStart will finally prompt to create support software, we do not need to create any at this time.
8. When SmartStart prompts you to remove the SmartStart CD and select Next, insert the Red Hat Network Boot Floppy, remove the SmartStart CD, and select Next.
9. The system will now reboot and you may begin the Linux installation.

1. You make major changes in the hardware prior to installing your operating system.
2. You decide to install a different operating system other than what you had configured through SmartStart.
3. You are unsure that SmartStart has been run correctly.

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Notes about System Configuration Utility

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Red Hat 7.0 Installation

• Choose English.
• Click 'Next'. NOTE: Only click 'Next' once, some screens take a few seconds to respond.

• Choose US Keyboard and 101 key layout.
• Click 'Next'.

• Choose NFS image
• Click 'Next'.

• Choose to use Dynamic IP Configuration
• Click 'Next'.

• Enter server in the server name box
• Enter /var/ftp/pub/rh70respin/i386 in the Red Hat Directory box
• Click 'Next'.

• Choose your mouse type (a 2 Button PS/2), and make sure that the box for 'Emulate 3 Buttons' is selected if you do not have a three button mouse.
• Click 'Next'

• On the System Installer screen click 'Next'.

• Select Installation type, for the class we will choose 'Custom System', click 'Next'.

• If asked, click on the "Initialize" button to create a new partition table.
• Select "Manually partition with Disk Druid", click 'Next'.
• (/boot = 30M) Create the /boot partition first in the Disk Druid Screen. Create a bootable partition that is completely contained below the 1024 cylinder boundary. This will be your boot partition. Click 'Add', Set it's mount point to '/boot'. This partition should be of type "Linux native". A boot partition is usually between 30 and 60 MB. Click 'OK'.
• (swap 256M) Create a primary or a logical partition to be used as swap space. Click 'Add'. Then at Partition type 'Linux native', click the button and select 'Linux swap' as the partition type. You will not be able to set a mount point or make this partition bootable. As a rule this partition should be twice the size of your installed memory, but the optimal size will be dictated by the intended use of the server. Click 'OK'.
• (/ 4096M) Create the root ( / ) partition. You may select the option 'Use Remaining Space' to utilize the whole hard disk. Click 'OK'. OR…
• If you intend to create more than 4 total partitions, then you should next create an Extended partition, which contains the rest of the drive. NOTE: Red Hat will create the Extended partitions for you as you "ADD" the partitions. You can then create the rest of your partitions as Logical partitions contained within this Extended partition. Please note that in some instances, there will exist partitions for other operating systems already installed on the system.
• Create a logical partition for storing your user applications. The mount point for this partition should be "/usr". This partition should be large enough to store all applications you may want to install on the system, plus 200 ~ 1GB of default applications which you may choose to load as part of the standard installation. If you do not create a separate partition for /usr it will be contained in the partition of its parent directory.
• Create a logical partition for storing your user's personal files also known ass home files. The mount point for this partition should be "/home". This partition should at a minimum allow 100MB per user, and can be as large as 2 ~ 5 GB per user if the system resources allow it. If you do not create a separate partition for /home it will be contained in the partition of its parent directory.
• Create a logical partition for any other directories you may want. What you separate out and how big to make the partition is dictated by the use of the server and an individual's administration style.
• Click 'Next'.
• Choose partitions to format, make sure that all partitions are selected. NOTE: Swap partition is automatically selected and is not listed in the table. Do NOT select "Check for Bad Blocks" for this class.
• Click 'Next' to continue.

• Choose to install LILO on the "first sector of partition" to preserve the functionality of "F10". For installation on an RBSU unit (units that do not support the Compaq F10 System Partition), select to install the LILO boot record on "/dev/hde Master Boot Record (MBR)". Take the default selections for the other items on this screen.
• Click 'Next'.

• If a DHCP server is used:
• For eth0, select 'Configure Using DHCP' and 'Activate on boot".
• For eth1, Make sure that both boxes are not selected, as we are not going to use the second NIC.
• Click 'Next'.
• If Static IP Addresses are used, you will need the following information:
• Set eth0 IP Address to ____________________
• Set eth0 Netmask to ________________________
• Select eth0 to "Activate on boot"
• For eth1, Make sure that both boxes are not selected as we are not going to use the second NIC
• Click 'Next'.

• Pick your time zone. For the class click on the UTC tab, then click "central", "Use DST", "Use UTC".
• Click 'Next'.

• Set Root Password: Choose your root password, and remember it!!! Set it to 'compaq' for this class.
• Set Account Login Names:
• Enter account names and passwords for users on your system.
• Enter at least one user for this class
• Make sure you click 'Add'.
• Click 'Next'.

• Select "Enable MD5 Passwords".
• Select "Enable Shadow Passwords".
• Click 'Next'.

• Scroll down to bottom of list, select "Development" and "Kernel Development".
• Click 'Next'.

• Select Compaq, and choose your monitor from the list
• If your monitor is not in the list, choose the model that best matches your monitor.
• Click 'Next'.

• The installation program automatically probes your hardware and determines your video details.
• Click 'Test this configuration'.
• If you are satisfied with the results of the test, click 'yes', otherwise, click 'no' and check your system documentation to set the appropriate video chipset and memory values.
• Select "Custom X Configuration"
• Make sure that the default desktop is set to 'Gnome'
• Click 'Next'.
• For this class, select '800x600' in all 3 columns of the Custom X Configuration screen
• Click 'Test this configuration'; click 'Yes' if you are satisfied with test results.
• Click 'Next' to continue

• Click 'Next' to begin the installation. Red Hat 7.0 should install the packages in approximately 4 to 10 minutes. NOTE: If your installation appears to progressing more slowly than indicated here, the media may be damaged and you will need to reinstall.
• Watch for the progress bar to reach 100%. You must choose Finish to continue. (This will reboot your server).
• Make sure you remove your Red Hat Network Boot Floppy.

• The System will start the LINUX OS you just loaded.
• Log in as root.
• Type 'startx' to start X windows.

• Type date to see the current date
• Reset to the correct time, for example: date 052412002001
• Push the date to the hardware clock: hwclock -utc -systohc

• As the root user run the command Xconfigurator
• Press OK
• At the PCI Probe screen press OK
• At the Monitor Probe screen press OK or choose your monitor
• At the video memory screen accept either 1M (PL1850R) or 4M (DL360)
• At the clockchip setting screen choose "no clockchip setting"
• On the resolution screen choose 16bit 800x600
• At the starting X screen press OK
• If you can see the message then click yes
• Servers normally do not have X-windows starting by default so choose NO
• On the finished screen press OK.
• Now log back in as a normal user and run X-windows by running the command startx.

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Compaq Health Driver and Agents Installation

1. Compaq Health Driver
2. Compaq Foundation Agent
3. Compaq Server Agent
4. Compaq Storage Agent
5. Compaq NIC Agent

mkdir /tmp/compaq

/pub/softpaq/sp14001-14500/sp14477.tgz
/pub/softpaq/sp14001-14500/s p14478.tgz
/pub/softpaq/sp14001-14500/s p14479.tgz
/pub/softpaq/sp14001-14500/s p14480.tgz
/pub/softpaq/sp16001-16500/s p16250.tgz
/pub/softpaq/sp16001-16500/s p16262.tgz
/pub/softpaq/sp16001-16500/s p16355.tgz
/pub/cpqhealth-2.0.0-11.Redhat7_0.i386.rpm

/pub/rh70respin/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ucd-snmp-4.1.2-8.i386.rpm

/pub/rh70respin/SRPMS/SRPMS/ucd-snmp-4.1.2-8.src.rpm

cd /tmp/compaq
rpm -ivh cpqhealth-2.0.0-11.Redhat7_0.i386.rpm

cd /tmp/compaq
tar -xzvf sp16262.tgz
cd e100-1.3.19/src
make
#Stop the network on your server using the following command
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
#Remove the eepro100 module from memory using the following rmmod command
#Note: lsmod doesn't do anything, it just shows you what is going on.
lsmod
rmmod eepro100
lsmod
#See if the new e100 module will load by using the following insmod command
insmod e100.o
#Check to see if it loaded by using the lsmod command
lsmod
#If the e100 driver loaded successfully, then use either pico or vi to edit /etc/modules.conf and replace eepro100 with e100.
pico /etc/modules.conf (or vi /etc/modules.conf)
#Use the following "make install" command to install the new e100 driver in its proper location.
make install
#Remove the e100 driver from memory with the following rmmod command
rmmod e100
lsmod
#Start networking and see if it uses your new module
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
lsmod

cd /tmp/compaq
rpm -ivh ucd-snmp-4.1.2-8.i386.rpm
#Set snmpd to load on startup using the following chkconfig commands
chkconfig --list snmpd
chkconfig --level 2345 snmpd on
chkconfig --list snmpd

cd /tmp/compaq
tar -xzvf sp14477.tgz
rpm -ivh cmafdtn-5.00-1.i386

#Modify cmahostd so that it will monitor snmpd for memory leaks
pico (or vi) /opt/compaq/foundation/etc/cmahostd
find the line that says PFLAGS="-p 15 -s OK" and add a "-z" so that it looks like PFLAGS="-p 15 -s OK -z"

#Set up the snmpd.conf configuration file
cp /opt/compaq/foundation/etc/snmpd.conf.cma /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
pico (or vi) /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
Modify the following lines:
YourLocalWriteCommunityString -- public
ManagementConsoleIPAddress -- 192.168.0.2
YourWriteCommunityString -- public
#rocommunity public    -- rocommunity public (remove the hash mark)
YourDefaultTrapCommString -- public
TrapDestinationIPAddress -- 192.168.0.2
 
#Build a new snmpd for use with Compaq Agents:
cd /tmp/compaq
rpm -ivh ucd-snmp-4.1.2-8.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
tar -xzvf ucd-snmp-4.1.2.tar.gz
patch -p0 <ucd-snmp-4.1.2-rpm40.patch
#Then run the command to rebuild snmpd
/opt/compaq/foundation/etc/snmpdbld
Provide the following answers:
Notify: root
Location: CCA8850
yes, replace the old snmpd

cd /tmp/compaq
tar -xzvf sp14478.tgz
rpm -ivh cmasvr-5.00-1.i386.rpm

cd /tmp/compaq
tar -xzvf sp14479.tgz
rpm -ivh cmanic.rpm

cd /tmp/compaq
tar -xzvf sp14480.tgz
rpm -ivh cmastor-5.00-1.i386.rpm

#sp16250 is for the crid driver, This driver won't be used during this lab.

cd /tmp/compaq 
tar -xzvf sp16355.tgz
rpm -ivh survey.rpm

• CTRL+ALT+DEL
• reboot
• shutdown -r now

ps ax | grep cma | grep -v grep | grep fdtn
ps ax | grep cma | grep -v grep | grep svr
ps ax | grep cma | grep -v grep | grep nic
ps ax | grep cma | grep -v grep | grep stor

rpm -qa | grep cma

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Web Console

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CIM Console

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Compaq Survey Utility

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Compaq Remote Insight Board Driver

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Compaq Hardware Drivers

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Clearing NVRAM though Advanced Mode of SCU

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Cool Things Linux can do

• You can log in on 6 different virtual consoles (text based)
• You can have 6 separate windows sessions running at the same time (all can be by different persons and can have their own personal screen saver and password) - great for sharing a box without logging off to let someone else log on - just lock your X-windows and then switch consoles.
• The [TAB] key will do file name completion for you.
• You can run an application on one machine, but display the results on another machine.
• The equivalent of the "Ghost" package (the ability to "ghost" a drive to the network and back) is built in to the basic utilities of Linux.
• With all the source code being open source, it makes it really easy to customize Linux to do what you want it to do - or to just see what it is actually doing.

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