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invcol breaking OME system updates?
I'm havnig the problem described in question 6.2 in the FAQ. http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/openmanage-essentials-faq.aspx
However, when trying to implement the fix, invcol tells me that CentOS 5.7 is unsupported.
./invcol -outc=/home/inv.xml
Inventory Failure: This Operating System is not supported
srvadmin-cm installs fine. All the other Dell tools seem to work fine. Is there a workaround for this, or is this a permanent limitation in invcol and thereby a blocker to performing centralize system updates from OME?
DELL-Rob C
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January 20th, 2012 10:00
Hi Chris, thanks for the post.
Can you confirm the OS type and version of the managed node (target)? Is it CentOS?
thanks,
Rob
Chris.G
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January 20th, 2012 10:00
Hi Rob,
Yep. CentOS 5.7
$ uname -a && cat /etc/issue
Linux 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 22 04:43:29 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
Thanks
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January 20th, 2012 10:00
Ok, not a Linux guy myself. But someone suggested you need to do this as well:
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echo "Taroon" > /etc/redhat-release
It's a pretty well-known problem:
www.google.com/search
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thx,
Rob
Chris.G
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January 20th, 2012 11:00
Yeah, it use to be a problem in regular OMSA, a long time ago. Taroon is the equivalent of RHEL 3, where as CentOS 5.7 is RHEL 5.7, aka "Tikanga". Taroon is from 2003, which I notice is also the header copyright date in invcol.
I guess I was hoping there was a simple edit to invcol which would find CentOS 5.7 acceptable, rather than changing what the OS reports to installers to a nine year old OS.
Thanks for the info.
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January 20th, 2012 11:00
Correction:
Sorry, should be two >> below:
echo "Taroon" >> /etc/redhat-release
BTW, disclaimer that OME is only tested with RHEL/SLES (official support).
Chris.G
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January 20th, 2012 13:00
This is what you need for CentOS 5.7 by the way.
echo "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)" >> /etc/redhat-release
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January 20th, 2012 14:00
Chris, thanks for the followup. --Rob