Installing IBM Serviceable Event Provider

You must install IBM® Serviceable Event Provider to enable tracking hardware problem, processing, and reporting to registered listeners.

Before you begin

IBM Serviceable Event Provider 2.1 supports 3.1.0 version of IBM PowerKVM systems.

You can download the IBM Serviceable Event Provider that is provided in the common RPM format, from the ESA Support website.

About this task

IBM Serviceable Event Provider 2.1.0 and later is bi-endian, supporting both big-endian and little-endian modes. You can use the same IBM Serviceable Event Provider package for both the modes. To install IBM Serviceable Event Provider, follow these steps:

Go to the directory that contains the IBM Serviceable Event Provider installation file.
Use your normal installation process to install IBM Serviceable Event Provider. The IBM Serviceable Event Provider fileset is serviceable.event.provider-<version>.noarch.rpm where version is the IBM Serviceable Event Provider version.

Enter the RPM installation command (for example):

rpm -ivh serviceable.event.provider-2.1.0-0.noarch.rpm

You can see on the console, that the installation is 100% completed in this format:

[root@llmjuno05b User]# serviceable.event.provider-2.1.0-0.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                            ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
 1:serviceable.event.provider-2.1.0-0   ################################# [100%]

What to do next

After the installation is complete, you must activate / start IBM Serviceable Event Provider to enable it to report problems and transmit service information to the registered listeners. For information, see Activating and configuring IBM Serviceable Event Provider.

To view the system information, run the command sys.discover -f prop in command line.