Hardware Management Agent Service Status Dead
After installing the Hardware Management Agent on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the hwmgmtd service starts but you see something similar to the following:
/etc/init.d/hwmgmtd start
Starting Sun HW agent services: . . . . . . . . [ OK ]
/etc/init.d/hwmgmtd status
hwmgmtd dead but subsys locked
In addition, there may be a line in the Hardware Management Agent similar to the following:
hwagentd_poller.c:334:hwmgmtd_bmc_response_test):Unable to reach the KCS interface over ipmitool-hwmgmtd.
This problem occurs when the IPMI device drivers have not been installed. Hardware Management Agent uses the IPMI drivers to access the KCS interface.
Solution: Install an IPMI system such as OpenIPMI, which provides device drivers for full access to IPMI information.