How to install OpenManage on Linux from cd

Question

Hello,

At my work, we have a ton of Dell Poweredge servers, many are 2850 and 2950 models. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to install OpenManage from the cd onto RedHat Linux. It was preinstalled with the OS on this one server, I launched server administrator and it brought up a command-prompt window. I hit select all components, it appeared to complete. I couldn't find where to launch server administrator from though. I dug through the drive and found a directory and think it was omwa.html or something, opened it up in firefox and clicked on main chassis and it said it was unable to find a find or that a file is missing. I clicked on delete server administration files icon on the desktop and wanted to manually install from cd. I printed a few things off the internet but it didn't help.

Is their an easy way to install Dell OpenManage on Red Hat Linux Enterprise version 4.5 and Enterprise version 5 from the Dell cd?

I'm not a Linux guru obviously, but I do know a little bit.

Thanks,

Nick

pentium4forever · Answer

Anyone? I figured it out but now there's systems running RedHat Enterprise 5 and I tried installing openmanage from cd, it wouldn't let me run the sh-install.sh or whatever it is in a terminal window. For on the RH 3 systems, I would just run it in terminal. On these RH 5 systems, try to run in terminal and it doesn't run that script file. I'm logged in as root too! By default the file type opens in Kwrite or Kedit, one of those apps. I have manually told it to open in a terminal window. No luck so far.

divot2001 · Answer

First off, if you intend to monitor the server remotely with IT Assistant or some other program (Nagios, Whatsup Gold, ... ) then install/configure/start the SNMP service before you install Server Administrator or you'll have some unnecessary work to do later on.

# /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

# where the desired SNMP community is named "public"

# and the IP address where the monitoring software is installed is x.x.x.x

rocommunity public

trapsink x.x.x.x public

# end of snmpd.conf

rpm -ivh net-snmp-*****.rpm

mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.old

vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

service snmpd restart

chkconfig snmpd on

# mount the OpenManage media if not already (using whatever device name is appropriate for optical drive)

mount /dev/dvdrom /media/dvdrom

cd /media/dvdrom

cd SYSMGMT/srvadmin/linux

./supportscripts/srvadmin-install.sh [-b | -s | -r | -w]

Either select the options to be installed using the numeric menu that is displayed or by appending the correct switches to automate the process.

[-b|--base] installs Base components.

[-s|--storage] installs Storage components, including Base.

[-r|--rac] installs applicable RAC components, including Base.

[-w|--web] installs Web Server components, including Base.

If the installation is unable to complete successfully for any reason take note of the package dependencies that are listed and install them from either the OS media or from the SYSMGMT/srvadmin/linux/RPMS directory.

Example (the most common is compat-libstdc++-33-xxxx.i386.rpm)

rpm -ivh ./RPMS/compat-libstdc++-33-xxxx.i386.rpm

Then repeat the installation again and either continue if everything completes successfully or more dependencies need to be installed.

The main thing most people forget is to ensure the kernel source (kernel-devel/kernel-source) package is installed. The kernel source must match the version and architecture of the running kernel. It will also need the gcc and make files but if these are missing you'll probably need to add quite a few packages to continue.

uname -a

rpm –ihv kernel*.rpm

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