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

Note: The version of yum distributed on CentOS 3 by default is too old (yum 2.0.8). You will need to upgrade to a yum 2.4.x version in order to use these repositories. The older version of yum does not support plugins or mirrorlists, which are required for these repos to work.
  1. Set up this repository:
    wget -q -O - bootstrap.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 - bootstrap.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 - bootstrap.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

Please see the OMSA section in the wiki for more information.

Support

A good place for support for this repository is the linux-poweredge mailing list.