Dell OMSA packages for RHEL7

Area2025,

I would need to confirm this for you to be certain, but the likely reasoning is that RHEL7 is not supported for any of our newest shipped systems management tools revisions, specifically OMSA and DSU. So that is the likely reason it was removed.

I can ask about having it restored, but I am not certain it would do any good if that is the reasoning.

Let me know if this helps.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply.

I understand there are products still based on RHEL7 including the current version of XenServer (xcp-ng 8.2.1 and Citrix Hypervisor 8.2).   We use the Dell OMA tools (omconfig and omreport) for configuration,  reporting and monitoring XenServers for all our clients.  They are essential part of our support for Dell servers.

Please ask for the most recent RHEL7 packages to be restored or at least available for download and manual installation.  I appreciate that they may not be the latest version and may not be updated in the future.

Thanks - Angus

Hi Chris,

Any update on this issue?

Thanks - Angus

Hi @area2025,

Please try installing the below OMSA version 10.1.0.0, supported on RHEL 7 OS.

https://dell.to/3S3DQet

For installation instructions, please refer to the below guide.

https://dell.to/3fVz2tT

@area2025Hi, I had the same pb. locating OMSA package for RHEL7. It seems dell has archived those packages, check this page : https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/DSU_22.08.12/ 

You need to download https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/bootstrap.cgi  and replace the line :

REPO_URL="/repo/hardware/dsu/"

by :

REPO_URL="/repo/hardware/DSU_22.08.12/"

run the script and finally type "yum install srvadmin-all".

If your server is behind a proxy, you need to do some adjustments on the "bootstrap.cgi" script :

SERVER="$https_proxy/linux.dell.com"

IMPORT_GPG_CONFIRMATION="yes" # If the keys were already imported

Replace the variable "mirrorlist" in the "write_repo()" function by :

baseurl=${SERVER}${REPO_URL}os_dependent/${OS_SUB_DIR}

and modify the "main" to the "OS_SUB_DIR" variable accordingly :

case $dist in

...

el[5-9]*|f[0-9]*)
OS_SUB_DIR=RH${dist_base^^}$dist_ver
replace_basearch=\$basearch
replace_dist=$dist_base\$releasever
if [ "$basearch" == "x86_64" ]; then
OS_SUB_DIR+=_64
exclude_arch=i386
else
OS_SUB_DIR+=_32
exclude_arch=x86_64
fi

Cheers.

@sebm, thanks for that - I will use this method in future.

I managed to rebuild (using the rpmrebuild package) the RPMs from another system; these installed successfully on the new system.

Thanks Dheeraj.