- Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Preinstallation Setup
- Installing Managed
System Software On Supported Linux And VMware ESX
- Software License Agreement
- RPM For Individual Components
- OpenIPMI Device Driver
- Installing Managed System Software
- Uninstalling Managed System Software
- Installing Systems
Management Software On VMware ESXi
- Using The vSphere CLI
- Using The VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)
- Using The VMware Update Manager (VUM)
- Using The Power CLI
- Accessing Server Administrator on VMware ESXi
- Enabling Server Administrator Services On The Managed System
- Configuring The SNMP Agent On Systems Running VMware ESXi
- Troubleshooting
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Linux Installer Packages
Server Administrator Version 7.4 Installation Guide
Linux Installer Packages
This section lists the Linux installer packages.
| RPM | Description | Dependent packages | Required for | Systems Management Software | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | ||||
| srvadmin-all | Meta package for installing all Server Administrator features | srvadmin-base, srvadmin-idrac, srvadmin-rac4, srvadmin-rac5, srvadmin-standardAgent, srvadmin-storageservices, srvadmin-webserver | Complete Server Administrator features | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-base | Meta package for installing the Server Agent | srvadmin-cm, srvadmin-omacore, srvadmin-smcommon | Server Instrumentation, SNMP monitoring, and Server Administrator CLI | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-standardAgent | Meta package for installing the Standard Server Agent | srvadmin-cm, srvadmin-itunnelprovider, srvadmin-smcommon | Enabling remote management using Server Administrator Web Server | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-webserver | Meta package for installing the Server Administrator Web Server feature | srvadmin-smcommon, srvadmin-smweb, srvadmin-tomcat | Server Administrator Web Server for local and remote node management | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-storageservices | Meta package for installing the Server Administrator Storage Services feature | srvadmin-cm, srvadmin-megalib, srvadmin-smcommon, srvadmin-storage, srvadmin-storelib, srvadmin-sysfsutils | Storage Management using Server Administrator GUI/CLI | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-rac4 | Meta RPM for RAC4 components | srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-rac-components, srvadmin-rac4-populator, srvadmin-racadm4, srvadmin-racdrsc, srvadmin-racsvc | RAC 4 management using Server Administrator GUI/CLI, RAC4 tools | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-rac5 | Meta RPM for RAC5 components | srvadmin-isvc, srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-rac-components, srvadmin-racadm4, srvadmin-racadm5, srvadmin-racdrsc | RAC 5 management using Server Administrator GUI/CLI, RAC5 tools | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-idrac | Meta RPM for iDRAC components | srvadmin-argtable2, srvadmin-deng, srvadmin-idrac-ivmcli, srvadmin-idrac-vmcli, srvadmin-idracadm, srvadmin-isvc, srvadmin-omcommon, srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-rac-components, srvadmin-racadm4, srvadmin-racdrsc | iDRAC management using Server Administrator GUI/CLI, iDRAC tools | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-server-snmp | Meta package that contains dependency information to automatically pull in the Server Administrator Server SNMP feature | srvadmin-base,srvadmin-deng-snmp, srvadmin-isvc-snmp | Server SNMP feature | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-server-cli | Meta package that contains dependency information to automatically pull in the Server Administrator Server CLI feature | srvadmin-base, srvadmin-omacore | Server CLI feature | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-storageservices-snmp | Meta package that contains dependency information to automatically pull in the Server Administrator Storage SNMP feature | storageservices, srvadmin-storage-snm | Storage SNMP feature | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-storageservices-cli | Meta package that contains dependency information to automatically pull in the Server Administrator Storage CLI feature | storageservices , srvadmin-storage-cli | Storage CLI feature | N | N | Y | Y |
| RPM | Description | OM Dependant packages | Required for | Systems Management Software | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | ||||
| srvadmin-omilcore | Core Install package that provides tools for the systems management install packages | pciutils,smbios-utils-bin | Installing and functioning of Server Administrator | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-deng | Data Engine stores and manages objects for systems management | srvadmin-omilcore | Server Instrumentation and SNMP monitoring | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-hapi | Provides low-level hardware interface for systems management | None | Server Instrumentation | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-isvc | Provides systems management interface to local and remote systems management | srvadmin-deng, srvadmin-omilcore | Server Instrumentation and SNMP monitoring | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| libsmbios | Provides SMBIOS library to get standard BIOS tables | None | Installation and software updates | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| smbios-utils-bin | Provides SMBIOS Utility to get system information | None | Installation | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| RPM | Description | OM Dependant packages | Required for | Systems Management Software | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | ||||
| srvadmin-omcommon | Common framework or libraries for GUI/CLI | srvadmin-omilcore | Server Administrator GUI/CLI | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-omacore | Provides plugins that act as interfaces between back end and GUI/CLI. Also provides OM CLI tools. | srvadmin-omilcore | Server Administrator GUI/CLI and infrastructure for software updates | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-xmlsup | XML support library | None | Server Administrator GUI/CLI | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-libxslt | XSLT support library * Applicable on VMware ESX only | None | Server Administrator GUI/CLI | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-cm | Change Management inventory collector. Feeds software inventory data to management station applications | srvadmin-omacore | Software inventory and updates | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-oslog | Management interface | srvadmin-omilcore | Replicating Server Administrator Events in OS Log | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-omacs | Server Administrator OMACS | srvadmin-omcommon srvadmin-omilcore | Common services bundled in helper library | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-ominst | Server Administrator Core | None | Server Instrumentation Components | N | N | Y | Y |
| RPM | Description | Dependant packages | Required for | Systems Management Software | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | ||||
| srvadmin-jre | Provides JAVA Runtime for web server | srvadmin-omilcore | Server Administrator GUI | Y* | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-iws | Server Administrator Web server and GUI package | srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-omcommon, srvadmin-jre, openwsman-client, libwsman1 | Server Administrator GUI | Y* | O*** | N | N |
| srvadmin-tomcat | Server Administrator Web server | srvadmin-jre, srvadmin-omcommon, srvadmin-omilcore | Server Administrator GUI | N | Y | Y | Y |
| openwsman-client | Openwsman client libraries | None | Server Administrator GUI to manage remote nodes using WSMAN | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| libwsman1 | Openwsman libraries used by client and server components | None | Openwsman support library | Y | Y | Y | Y |
* — Not applicable for OM 7.0 supplemental pack for Citrix Xen 6.0.
** — Should be installed from the OS media for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and SLES 11.
*** — Obsolete and replaced with srvadmin-tomcat
| RPM | Description | OM Dependant packages | Required for | Systems Management Software | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | ||||
| srvadmin-itunnelprovider | The Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB) provider that enables remote management of the server | libcmpiCppImpl0, openwsman-server, sblim-sfcb sblim-sfcc | Enabling remote management of server | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| libwsman1 | Openwsman libraries used by client and server components | None | Openwsman support library | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| openwsman-server | Openwsman server and service libraries *N/A on VMware ESX | None | Enabling remote management of server | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| sblim-sfcb | Small Footprint CIM Broker (sfcb) - CIM server conforming to the CIM Operations over HTTP protocol. *N/A on VMware ESX | None | Enabling remote management of server | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| sblim-sfcc | Small Footprint Common Information Model (CIM) Client Library (sfcc) Runtime Libraries *N/A on VmWare ESX | None | Enabling remote management of server | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| libcmpiCppImpl0 | Provides helper library to implement Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) C++ plugins into SFCB *N/A on VmWare ESX | None | Enabling remote management of server | Y | Y | Y | Y |
* — Should be installed from the OS media for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and SLES 11.
| RPM | Description | OM Dependant packages | Required for | Systems Management Software | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | ||||
|
srvadmin-realssd*
* For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 |
Meta package for installing management libraries for PCIeSS Devices | None | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Solid State (PCIeSS) Devices management | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-storage | Core interface library for storage management | srvadmin-deng, srvadmin-isvc, srvadmin-megalib, srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-smcommon, srvadmin-storelib | Storage instrumentation, SNMP monitoring and CLI (for storage management) | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-storelib | LSI utility libraries for storage management | srvadmin-storelib-sysfs | Storage instrumentation | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-storelib-sysfs | Provides library for interfacing with the kernel's sys filesystem. Used by LSI storelib libraries *N/A for VMware ESX | None | Storage instrumentation | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-sysfsutils | Provide utilities for interfacing with sysfs file system. Used by the storage management libraries | None | Storage instrumentation | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-megalib | LSI utility libraries for storage management of PERC 4 controllers. *N/A for 64-bit OMSA installation, and VMware ESX. | None | Storage instrumentation of PERC 4 controllers | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-smcommon | Common framework or libraries for GUI/CLI (for storage management) | None | Storage management using Server Administrator GUI/CLI | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-smweb | GUI plugins for storage management | srvadmin-omcommon, srvadmin-smcommon | Storage management using Server Administrator GUI | Y** | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-storage-cli | Storage Management CLI Interface | srvadmin-storage | CLI interface access for Storage Management | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-storage-snmp | Storage Management CLI Interface | srvadmin-deng-snmp, srvadmin-storage | Storage-related SNMP queries and SNMP Traps | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-deng-snmp | Server Administrator SNMP Framework | srvadmin-deng | Server Administrator SNMP Framework | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-isvc-snmp | Server SNMP module | srvadmin-hapi, srvadmin-isvc | Server and Operating System related SNMP Queries and SNMP Traps | N | N | Y | Y |
* — Obsolete - merged with srvadmin-storage
** — Not applicable for OM 7.0 supplemental pack for Citrix Xen 6.0.
| RPM | Description | OM Dependant packages | Required for | Systems Management Software | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | ||||
| srvadmin-racsvc | RAC services to manage DRAC 4 | setserial, srvadmin-omilcore | DRAC 4 instrumentation | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-rac-components | RAC data populator for DRAC 4 | None | DRAC 4 instrumentation and SNMP monitoring | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-racadm4 | Provides CLI tools for DRAC 4 administration | None | RAC CLI tools for DRAC 4 | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-rac5-components | RAC Data populator for DRAC 5 | srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-hapi, srvadmin-deng | DRAC 5 instrumentation and SNMP monitoring | N | N | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-racadm5 | Provides CLI tools for DRAC 5 administration | srvadmin-hapi, srvadmin-omilcore | RAC CLI tools for DRAC 5 | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-idrac7 | RAC data populator for iDRAC7 | srvadmin-argtable2, srvadmin-deng, srvadmin-idrac-vmcli, srvadmin-idracadm7, srvadmin-isvc, srvadmin-omcommon, srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-rac-components, srvadmin-racadm4, srvadmin-racdrsc | iDRAC7 instrumentation and SNMP monitoring | N | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-idracadm | Provides CLI tools for iDRAC administration | srvadmin-argtable2, srvadmin-omilcore | RAC CLI tools for iDRAC | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-idracadm7 | Provides CLI tools for iDRAC7 administration | srvadmin-argtable2 srvadmin-omilcore | RAC CLI tools for iDRAC7 | N | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-racdrsc | RAC CLI and Web Plugin to Server Administrator for RAC 4, 5 and iDRAC | None | RAC management using Server Administrator GUI/CLI | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-rac-components | RAC SNMP components for RAC 4, 5 and iDRAC | None | RAC instrumentation and SNMP monitoring | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-rac4-populator- | RAC Data populator for DRAC 4 | srvadmin-omilcore | DRAC 4 instrumentation | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-argtable2 | Library for parsing GNU style command-line argument. Used by RAC 5 and iDRAC packages | None | RAC CLI tools for RAC 5 and iDRAC management | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-idrac-ivmcli | Provides CLI tools that provide virtual media features from the management station to the iDRAC in the remote modular system | None | RAC CLI tools for virtual media feature | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| srvadmin-idrac-vmcli | Provides CLI tools that provide virtual media features from the management station to the iDRAC in the remote Rack and Tower system | None | RAC CLI tools for virtual media feature | Y | Y | Y | Y |
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