Dell OMSA 5.5 Linux repository

What is this?

As of OMSA 5.5, this is the officially supported yum repository for OMSA.

Please see the detailed description in the Dell OMSA Linux wiki page

How to set up

yum setup instructions for RHEL5, Fedora5+, CentOS.

up2date setup instructions for RHEL4.

rug setup instructions for SUSE.

How to set up for usage with yum (minimum required version: yum 2.4.x): RHEL5, CentOS, Scientific Linux, RHEL4+yum, SLES+yum

1. Set up this repository:

   wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/2008_Q3/_tools/site-index-template.shtmlbootstrap.cgi | bash
   

2. Optional Install OpenManage Server Administrator:

   yum install srvadmin-all

   NOTE: OMSA will not install on unsupported systems. If you receive a message at install that the system is not supported, it is likely that your system is not supported, and the install will fail. This is most common on SC-class systems, as OMSA is completely unsupported on these systems.

How to set up for usage with up2date: RHEL4

Follow these instructions for use with up2date:

1. Set up this repository:

   wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/2008_Q3/_tools/site-index-template.shtmlbootstrap.cgi | bash
   

2. Optional Install OpenManage Server Administrator:

   up2date -i srvadmin-all
   

   NOTE: OMSA will not install on unsupported systems. If you receive a message at install that the system is not supported, it is likely that your system is not supported, and the install will fail. This is most common on SC-class systems, as OMSA is completely unsupported on these systems.

How to set up for usage with rug: SLES 10

1. Set up this repository:

   wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/2008_Q3/_tools/site-index-template.shtmlbootstrap.cgi | bash
   

2. Optional Install OpenManage Server Administrator:

   rug install srvadmin-base
   rug install srvadmin-webserver
   rug install srvadmin-storageservices
   

   NOTE 1: OMSA will not install on unsupported systems. If you receive a message at install that the system is not supported, it is likely that your system is not supported, and the install will fail. This is most common on SC-class systems, as OMSA is completely unsupported on these systems.

   NOTE 2: If you want to install srvadmin-all, you have to have 'setserial' installed. I dont have the details on this, but it doesnt appear that setserial is installed by default.

Manually configuring the hardware repo

Manual setup is not recommended or supported at this time.

OpenManage Server Administrator

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