First of all I would like to thank you for all your help. You seem quite knowledgeable. I've read up on the vihostupdate.pl. I'm still having some difficulties putting all the pieces together. The usage is basically like you posted there are variations.

The tool viupdate.pl seems to be looking for a zip file.

The HP management agents come in a .tgz file called hpmgmt-8.2.0-vmware3x.tgz, not sure if this can just replace the .zip file as .tgz is a type of compressed file.

My second issue is here are the instructions from HP:

There are two (2) steps to perform for an installation of the agents.

These steps are:

1 - Execute the script PreInstall_Setup.sh.

NOTE: This script will request a reboot of the system.

The reboot must be done to provide a workaround for a system hang

that has been seen intermittently on installation.

PreInstall_Setup.sh must be executed before executing

./installvm820.sh --install or

./installvm820.sh --silent --inputfile < filename >

2 - After the reboot, log onto the console operating sysetm, change the

working directory to the working directory where the files were

unbundled (e.g. /home/vmware/hpmgmt/820 ).

Use the installation script (installvm820.sh) to complete the rest of

the installation.

The files they referenced are inside the tgz file along with other files that I believe are required as they are larger that the sh files.

It just seems that this method is (vihostupdate.pl) is used with zip files that have everything in them needed to install. I can't see a way of telling it to run the .sh files.