System Management Assistant - HP HPE iLO 5 User Manual

• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6—Enter the following command:
service smad restart; service amsd restart.
• VMware—Enter the following command: /etc/init.d/ams.sh restart.
• Ubuntu 14—Enter the following command: sudo systemctl restart smad; sudo systemctl
restart amsd.
• Ubuntu 12—Enter the following command: sudo service smad restart; sudo service
amsd restart.

System Management Assistant

With the release of Gen10 servers, iLO no longer supports OS-based SNMP agents. The System
Management Assistant (SMA) is an Agentless Management Service feature for users who want to run
applications that obtain SNMP information from the OS.
Security
SMA communicates over secure iLO channels.
AMS modes
• AMS (forward mode)—The standard configuration of AMS is to pass information from the OS to
iLO.
• SMA (reverse mode)—When SMA is enabled, information is passed from iLO to the OS.
Installation
SMA is installed as part of the AMS package, and it is disabled by default.
Enabling SMA
• Windows—Use the default AMS configuration to pass information from the OS to iLO. Enable
SMA to pass information from iLO to the OS. The standard configuration of AMS and SMA can be
enabled at the same time.
• Linux and VMware—Use the default AMS configuration to pass information from the OS to iLO.
Enable SMA to pass information from iLO to the OS. The default AMS configuration and SMA
cannot be enabled at the same time.
SMA functionality
When SMA is enabled, it does the following:
• Linux—Proxies AgentX protocol requests between iLO and a host-based SNMP master.
• Windows, Linux, VMware—Proxies SNMP protocol requests between iLO and a host-based
SNMP service.
This method is used when the host-based SNMP service does not support AgentX subagents.
SNMP master
With the default AMS configuration, AMS uses iLO as the SNMP master. SMA requires a host-based
service to act as the SNMP master.
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