IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II Interface Daemon for x86_64 Linux Version 1.02 CONTENTS -------- 1.0 Overview 2.0 Change History 3.0 RSAII daemon Installation Instructions 4.0 Installing libusb and libusb-devel 5.0 Web Sites and Support Phone Number 6.0 Trademarks and Notices 7.0 Disclaimer 1.0 Overview ------------- This README.TXT file is associated with the following RPM file: - ibmusbasm64-1.02-1.src.rpm This RPM file will build and install the RSAII daemon and/or support software for the following IBM hardware: - IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II Note 1: The ibmusbasm rpm requires the libusb and libusb-devel packages to be installed. If your distribution does not include/install the 2 packages please reference Section 4 for installation instructions. Note 2: If you have GCC compiler version 2.96, you should update it to version 3.xx. 2.0 Change History ------------------- - version 1.02 Added function to correctly identify the primary RSA II node in a multi-node system. - version 1.01 Initial release. 3.0 RSAII daemon Installation Instructions --------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1 Supported versions: 3.1.1) SLES9 for x86_64. 3.1.2) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 3.0 Update 2 or 3 for x86_64. 3.2 RSAII RPM installation: NOTE: Before installing the RSA II software, make sure the mini USB cable is connected between the RSA II and a USB port on the xSeries server. Also make sure the RSA II is configured for "Linux OS". If either of these steps is not performed then the RSA II software installation may fail. Refer to the RSA II Installation Guide and RSA II User's Guide for additional information. To install the RPM execute the following commands: 1: rpmbuild --rebuild ibmusbasm64-1.XX-1.src.rpm 2: cd /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64 ( For Redhat: cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64 ) 3: rpm -ivh ibmusbasm64-1.XX-1.x86_64.rpm NOTE: If this is an upgrade to an existing RSAII daemon, then the previously installed packages must first be removed. Depending upon your system's configuration, you may see messages about missing files when running the "rpm -e" commands. You may safely ignore those messages. Type the following two commands at a shell prompt to remove the old source and binaries: rpm -e ibmusbasm64 or if a 32-bit package had been installed: rpm -e ibmusbasm 3.3 Un-installing the ibmusbasm64 RPMS. To uninstall the binary rpm, execute the following command: rpm -e ibmusbasm64 RPM will unload the daemons, and remove all ibmasm-related files from your system. It is recommended that you uninstall the daemons with -e before installing a new version, rather than upgrading with RPM's upgrade (-U) switch. 3.4 Utility Programs. There are two useful utility programs installed by the RPM. ibmspup is a small script that loads ibmasm (the service processor daemon). Note that these modules will not load if you do not have the supported hardware installed. ibmspdown unloads the modules. You must have root priveledges to run these utilities. 4.0 Installing libusb and libusb-devel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.1 Get/download version 0.1.6 (or later) of the libusb /libusb-devel rpms (e.g. you might get them from RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0 cds). Note: On SLES9 the libusb-devel package has been combined with the the libusb package, so only the libusb package is required. 4.2 We recommend installing the source rpm because this eliminates any incompatibilities that might be encountered between the binary libusb and older Linux kernels, like that on Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1. After downloading the source rpm (e.g. libusb-0.1.6-1.src.rpm), issue the following commands from the directory that the libusb rpm resides: 4.2.1) rpmbuild --rebuild --nodeps libusb-0.1.6-1.src.rpm 4.2.2) cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64 (For Suse: cd /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64) 4.2.3) rpm -ivh libusb-0.1.6-1.x86_64.rpm 4.2.4) rpm -ivh libusb-devel-0.1.6-1.x86_64.rpm 4.2.5) cd /usr/lib 4.2.6) ln -s libusb-0.1.so.4 libusb.so 4.2.7) ldconfig 5.0 WEB Sites and Support Phone Number --------------------------------------- 5.1 IBM Support Web Site: http://www.pc.ibm.com/support 5.2 IBM Marketing eServer xSeries Web Site: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/eserver/xseries 5.3 If you have any questions about this update, or problems applying the update go to the following Help Center World Telephone Numbers URL: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/YAST-3P2QYL.html 6.0 Trademarks and Notices --------------------------- The following terms are trademarks of the Red Hat Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: Red Hat The following terms are trademarks of SuSE, Inc. in the United States and SuSE AG in Germany or other countries: SuSE The following terms are trademarks of Linus Torvalds in the United States or other countries or both: Linux 7.0 Disclaimer --------------- 7.1 THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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