HP Smart Storage Administrator (HPSSA) Version 1.50-4.0 (linux32) 7/17/2013 Description ----------- The HP Smart Storage Administrator (HPSSA) is the storage configuration, diagnostics, and management utility for ProLiant servers. * All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Support ------- Supported Operating Systems 32bit Platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 11 64bit Platforms: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86_64) with the "Compatibility Package" installed to include the 32-bit libraries. * All these platforms need to have the following driver upgrades: CISS driver version 2.4.50 or later These drivers and Fibre Channel HBA drivers are available from http://www.hp.com. Supported Client Side Browsers Mozilla Firefox 9.0 or later Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or above Google Chrome * Please make sure the following browser options are enabled: 1. Automatically load images and other data types. 2. Javascript. 3. Style sheets. Supported Controllers Smart Array P410i Controller Smart Array P411 Controller Smart Array P212 Controller Smart Array P712m Controller Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Smart Array P812 Controller Smart Array P220i Controller Smart Array P222 Controller Smart Array P420 Controller Smart Array P420i Controller Smart Array P421 Controller Smart Array P822 Controller Smart Array P721m Controller Dynamic Smart Array B320i RAID Dynamic Smart Array B120i RAID Smart Array P430 Controller Smart Array P431 Controller Smart Array P731m Controller Installing & Running the HP Smart Storage Administrator -------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: HPSSA is distributed using Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages. If there is an older version of HPSSA installed on the system, please use "rpm -e hpssa" to remove it first. Use "rpm -i " to install the service. Please type "man rpm" for other details regarding RPM. The software resides in /opt/hp/hpssa and the executable name is hpssa which is located in /usr/sbin. HPSSA can be accessed through the HP System Management Homepage. If you have not installed "HP's System Management Homepage", please download and install it from hp.com. Run the HPSSA client on the local server as an application: Requirements: . You must run hpssa as root . You must be running on a . The background process will create a port on the loopback interface which is not visible to external network connections. 1. Run the hpssa command (/usr/sbin/hpssa) with the "-local" parameter. The background program will start and launch the firefox browser. 2. To change the default browser that is started, or to specify the command to use to launch the browser, modify the browserstart.sh script (under /opt/hp/hpssa/bin) with the correct path. 3. To exit the application, close the main application window. Run the HPSSA remotely through the HP System Management Homepage: Requirements: . Only run HPSSA on servers that are on a local intranet or a secure network. . Secure the management port (port 2301) on your network, or run using the secure port (port 2381). . Run hpssa as root. To start the server daemon: 1. Run the hpssa command with the "-start" parameter /usr/sbin/hpssa -start 2. If this is the first time that HPSSA is started in this mode, you must restart the SMH server for HPSSA to appear in the SMH page. To restart SMH type (as root): /etc/init.d/hpsmhd restart 3. Access the System Management Homepage from the client browser. URL: http://:2301/ Secure URL: https://:2381/ 4. HPSSA can be launched from the Storage section by clicking on the HP Smart Storage Administrator link. To stop the server daemon: 1. Run the hpssa command with the "-stop" parameter /usr/sbin/hpssa -stop Additional Notes ---------------- 1. When running under the System Management Homepage, users will automatically be logged out after a predetermined period of inactivity when using HPSSA and will have to re-login. 2. System Management Homepage login timeouts will not work properly while running HPSSA unless the "Anonymous Access" option is checked on the System Management Homepage under "Settings->Options". If you decide not to check "Anonymous Access" and a login timeout occurs, the System Management Homepage login screen will appear in an HPSSA frame and will not work correctly. If this happens, close the HPSSA browser and go back to the System Management Homepage and re-login as administrator. Click on the Smart Storage Administrator link to restart the HPSSA session. 3. To properly exit out of the HPSSA session, click on the Exit (X) link in the HPSSA window. 4. Please stop the HP Storage Agents when deleting logical drives since HP Storage Agents keeps all logical drives open. 5. If all physical drives on a controller fail or are removed, software keys will not be saved to the controller. 6. HPSSA may appear unresponsive during heavy array controller I/O conditions, such as during a partition format or a logical drive rebuild. 7. Some browsers allow pop-ups to be turned off or blocked. For HPSSA to run, pop-ups must be enabled in the browser. 8. When using Linux as the host operating system, if a Smart Array controller has 16 or more volumes configured, deleting any volume in the HPSSA will not update the /proc/partitions to reflect the deletion of the device node associated with that volume. Rebooting the server will cause the update to happen. Note that there is also a limitation that only the first 16 volumes configured will be available to the operating system. 9. When using Internet Explorer 9.0 to run HPSSA from a server using HPSMH it may not be possible to save the diagnostic report. To allow the report to be dowloaded do the following: Under Internet Options, go to the Advanced tab and clear the "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" checkbox. 10. When using Internet Explorer 8.0 to run HPSSA remotely, choosing the "Save Report" link to download a copy of the diagnostic report may cause the information bar to appear with the following message: "To help protect your security, Windows Internet Explorer blocked this site from downloading files to your computer. Click here for more options..." Even if the "download file" action is clicked in the information bar, the file download is blocked and the report is not downloaded. In order to successfully download the file: * Choose to view the report first and then save the file, or * Disable automatic download blocking by enabling automatic prompting for file downloads. To access the setting that controls automatic download blocking: a) Click Tools, and then click Internet Options. The Internet Options dialog box appears. b) Click the Security tab. The Internet Options dialog box shows the security levels and zones. Select the current security zone for the server that is running HPSSA. c) Click Custom Level. The Security Settings dialog box appears. d) Scroll down to Downloads, and then select the Enable option for Automatic prompting for file downloads. Feedback -------- For support for HPSSA or Smart Array controllers, please visit the web at http://support.hp.com.