C O M P A Q (R)  C O M P U T E R  C O R P O R A T I O N

                  Compaq Storage Agents - Linux

                            Version 5.00 
                         March 15, 2001

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1.  Introduction

2.  Documentation Updates and Corrections

3.  Known Issues 

4.  Installation
    4.1  Before installing
    4.2  Installing the Storage Agents
    4.3  After installation

5.  New Features

6.  Supported Products


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1.  Introduction

The "Compaq Storage Agents - Linux" software release contains Storage 
Agents program and related files for Linux. 
The Storage Agents take advantage of the systems management capabilities
of Compaq servers.  This release supports RedHat Linux 6.2 and Red Hat
Linux 7.0. 


2.  Documentation Updates and Corrections
This section contains information on known errors and omissions in the
"Compaq Storage Agents - Linux" User Guide. The information in this 
section is more up-to-date than that in the User Guide.


3.  Known Issues 

    a. If your system is not certified for compaq health driver, the slot
       information for the host controller won't be correct.

    b. If the cpqarray driver version is 1.0.9 or older, the slot number
       for the SMART array controller won't be correct.

    c. If cpqfc driver version is 1.4.3 or older, the WWN and the slot 
       number for the FC host controller won't be correct. 
 
 
4.   Installation

4.1  Before installing

     "Compaq Storage Agents - Linux" requires one or more of the Compaq 
      storage drivers depending on the kind of host adapter cards it
      has. For Intelligent Drive Array adpater, it needs either Compaq 
      SMART2 Driver or Compaq CISS Driver or both. For Fibre Channel host
      adapter, it needs the FCP-SCSI Driver.

      All the Compaq storage drivers can be downloaded from the following 
      ftp site.

      ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/drivers/linux/released
 
      If the driver version in your system is not up-to-date, you may have
      to download patches and apply it to your driver source to get the most 
      current driver.
         
    

4.2  Installing the Storage Agents

      1. Make sure you have installed the Compaq Foundation Agents.

      2. Use following command to install the Compaq Storage Agents:

            rpm -ivh cmastor-5.00-1.i386.rpm

4.3 After installation

      1. Manually shut down and then re-start the snmpd agent.
         /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd stop
         /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd start

      2. Manually start the Foundation agents

        /etc/rc.d/init.d/cmafdtn start

      3. Manually start the Storage agents

        /etc/rc.d/init.d/cmastor start


5.  New Features

    Added SCSI and IDE agents.

6.  Supported Products

6.1 Supported OS and drivers.

    For RedHat 6.2 system, only Compaq SMART2 driver is supported.
 
    For RedHat 7.0 system, both Compaq CISS driver and Compaq FCP-SCSI driver are
    also supported.
      
6.2 Supported Host Controllers

    The "Compaq Storage Agents - Linux" have been tested on the
    following Compaq Storage Products:

    Compaq SMART-2/P Array Controller.
    Compaq SMART-2SL Array Controller.
    Compaq Smart Array 3100ES Controller.
    Compaq Smart Array 3200 Controller.
    Compaq SMART-2DH Array Controller.
    Compaq Smart Array 221 Controller.
    Compaq Smart Array 4250ES Controller.
    Compaq Smart Array 4200 Controller.
    Compaq Integrated Smart Array Controller.
    Compaq Smart Array 431 Controller.
    Compaq Smart Array 5300 Controller.
    Compaq RAID LC2 Controller.
    Compaq StorageWorks 64-Bit/66-Mhz Fibre Host Bus Adapter
    Compaq RA-4x000.

    

Use of this software on equipment not specifically tested by Compaq may
produce unreliable or undesirable results.  Compaq does not warrant the
fitness or compatibility of this software on untested hardware.


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