OMSA: Introduction to OpenManage Server Administrator Installation and Upgrade Packages

OMSA Installation and Upgrade Procedures: 

Windows Installation: 

OpenManage Server Administrator is available as a self-extracting payload. The default extraction location is c:\OpenManage. There are two ways to install OMSA in Windows, Setup.exe and MSI package. Always ensure that whichever method used is done with elevated permissions.  

Option 1: Setup.exe 

• Download and run the self-extracting package from support.dell.com 

• Invoke c:\OpenManage\Windows\Setup.exe either from an elevated shell or by right click and selecting "RunAs Administrator."  

• This runs a pre-requisite checker to determine what pre-requisites exist 

• Follow the wizard and select Custom to install or exclude some features 

• When installed from Setup.exe OMSA always creates an MSI Installation log in the %localappdata\temp% directory  

• Hapi driver "dcdbas.sys" installation is logged in default window device driver log located at c:\windows\inf\setupapi.dev.log 

Option 2: MSI installer 

The MSI package is available in c:\OpenManage\windows\systemsmanagementx64\sysmgmtx64.msi location. This should be invoked only from an elevated shell (cmd prompt or PowerShell).  

• Download and run the self-extracting package from support.dell.com 

• The MSI package is available in c:\OpenManage\windows\systemsmanagementx64\sysmgmtx64.msi location. This should be invoked only from an elevated shell (cmd prompt or PowerShell).  

• This skips the pre-requisite checker 

• By default it does not produce an MSI Installer Log  

• Hapi driver "dcdbas.sys" is logged in the setupapi.dev.log  

In order to run the installer and produce an MSI installer log, run the following:

> msiexec /i “c:\openmanage\windows\systemsmanagementx64\sysmgmtx64.msi” /l*v “C:\omsainstall.log”  

Linux Installation: 

OpenManage Server Administrator is provided as a tar.gz install or as part of a linux repository on linux.dell.com. The Yum Repository method is considerably easier since any operating system missing pre-requisites should be to find. 

Option 1: Tar.gz method 

• Download tar.gz and tar.gz.sign file from support.dell.com 

• On the Linux host run tar –zxvf against the OMSA tar.gz file 

• Cd to the directory of the operating system you are installing OMSA for. It has at least four linux distributions. 

• Run ./setup.sh to install OMSA features 

• Setup.sh does have custom install options 

Option 2: Linux Repository method 

• From the linux host, run 

  #curl -O https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/bootstrap.cgi 

• Next run bash bootstrap.cgi 

• If you are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, run yum install srvadmin-all 

• If you are running SUSE, run zypper install srvadmin-all 

ESXi Installation: 

OMSA is a lightweight VIB installation for ESXi that installs with a few steps. You can also leverage VMware vCenter Update Manager or vSphere Lifecycle manager to install OMSA.  

Option 1: VIB installation method 

• Download the VIB from dell.com/support 

• Transfer it to the ESXi host 

• Next run esxcli software:

  #esxcli software vib install –d "/path/filename.zip" 

Option 2: VUM or vSphere methods 

• Check the ESXi installation guide at:  https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000132087/support-for-dell-emc-openmanage-server-administrator-omsa?lang=en 

  Install OpenManage Server Administrator on VMware ESXi

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