The newest SMH (2.1.11.197) is included with the 8.0.0 agents.
I do, however, want to add a caution. This applies to folks who upgraded to 3.5 from 3.0.x, but left an earlier (7.7 or before, I'm guessing; mine was 7.6) version of hpmgmt, and are now looking to upgrade to 8.0.
Do not use the old "installvmnnn.sh --uninstall" to uninstall the old version. Use "installvm800.sh --uninstall" instead.
First, running the old script should error with "Installer does not support the VMWare ESX Server version." It's been sugested elsewhere (such as http://communities.vmware.com/message/842003 and also at HP's support forums) to modify the script to add the new version to the SUPPORTED_VERSIONS line. This will uninstall the old version. However, the older versions of the agents (the ones that support 2.5.x and 3.0.x) do another level of checks that (un)installs other packages in 2.5.x that 3.0.x already include. The affected package is "expat." If SUPPORTED_VERSIONS is the only line edited, "expat" will get uninstalled, and your ESX installation will be broken. The first sign I saw was when I attempted to install 8.0.0 immediately after removing 7.6.0, esxcfg-firewall failed while the install tried making firewall changes, stating "libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file"
Being a linux/shell script noob, I rebooted the host and was greeted with lots of the above error. EPIC FAIL, as the kids say.
After a little help from a coworker, I used the --uninstall from 8.0.0 to remove 7.6.0 first, and was successfully able to then install 8.0.0 on, so far, 4 other similarly upgraded hosts.
Be careful out there!
Kazuto Okayasu
Administrative Computing Services
University of California, Irvine
Kazuto Okayasu
Administrative Computing Services
University of California, Irvine
