HP Server Automation - agent misreporting hostname

Posted by warren on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by warren
Published on 2009-11-25T12:21:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 19:18 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 320

Filed under:

hpsa

|

opsware

|

linux

|

solaris

|

hostname

I've been using HP Server Automation for some time, but have noticed an interesting issue I'm hoping the SF community has seen / knows a workaround to.

When the management agent on Solaris or RHEL (only platforms I've noticed it on) reports the hostname of the managed server, it does not return the value of hostname, it returns the first alias to that entry in /etc/hosts.

Any ideas on how to get around that? Other than editing /etc/hosts so the alias is at the end of the line instead of the front?

© Server Fault or respective owner

Related posts about hpsa

Troubleshooting PXE-E11: ARP Timeout error under VMware ESXi 4 and HPSA 7.8

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I am running HP Server Automation v7.8 in a lab environment on VMware ESXi, managed via vSphere 4. On the same host I have several small VMs for OS provisioning testing (512MB RAM, 10GB hdd, one NIC on the same vSwitch that HPSA is running on). DHCP is configured to hand-out addresses in the 192… >>> More
Getting a list of patches in an HPSA patch policy

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I'm trying to get a list of patches contained in a Patch Policy in HPSA -- I can get what I need via the Twister web interface (under PatchPolicy.getPatches(), give it an ID, and it happily returns a list of patches contained.) -- I'm having a hard time getting this to work via the Pytwist interface… >>> More
Windows pysical server provisioning question with HPSA 7.8

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I have a physical server that I am trying to provision Windows to. At 58% of the way through copying files form the Core to the target server, the process hangs with either a samba time-out or an error indicating that %path%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt. I can build a VM on the same… >>> More
HPSA specialists?

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Can anyone recommend any HP Server Automation integration specialists in the east\northeast area? >>> More
RHEL 5.1 loses changes to /etc/hosts above lines for `localhost`

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Is there a known fix (other than upgrading from 5.1) to fix /etc/hosts from being replaced on reboot? I discovered this behavior when running HP's Server Automation tools. HPSA sets-up a variety of local aliases for itself to use for different components to communicate wit each other. However, after… >>> More

Related posts about opsware

Getting a list of patches in an HPSA patch policy

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I'm trying to get a list of patches contained in a Patch Policy in HPSA -- I can get what I need via the Twister web interface (under PatchPolicy.getPatches(), give it an ID, and it happily returns a list of patches contained.) -- I'm having a hard time getting this to work via the Pytwist interface… >>> More
HP Server Automation - agent misreporting hostname

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I've been using HP Server Automation for some time, but have noticed an interesting issue I'm hoping the SF community has seen / knows a workaround to. When the management agent on Solaris or RHEL (only platforms I've noticed it on) reports the hostname of the managed server, it does not return the… >>> More
The Oracle Enterprise Linux Software and Hardware Ecosystem

as seen on Oracle Blogs - Search for 'Oracle Blogs'
It's been nearly four years since we launched the Unbreakable Linux support program and with it the free Oracle Enterprise Linux software. Since then, we've built up an extensive ecosystem of hardware and software partners. Oracle works directly with these vendors to ensure joint customers can run… >>> More
"cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream" error when unpacking flash archive on solaris 10

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I've searched around but i'm having no luck with some peculiar behavior with a flash archive. I'm using HP Server Automation 9.14 to deploy the OS. I'm creating a Solaris 10 flash archive to create a snapshot default build in our environment. I create the flash archive with # flar create -c -S… >>> More
Deployment/provisioning tool for commercial applications (not developed in-house)

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I help manage a few hosted commercial applications, and we have a lot of manual processes involved when doing new customer-instance deployments into the shared (multitenant) environment. Allow me to describe the most relevant features, and then we can talk about the tools. We have an application… >>> More