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Type : System
Operating System : Redhat,Fedora,Centos
Write by : Fabien FAYE

In this article i propose you to explain how to install the open manage solution provide by dell for the monitoring of the DELL hardware.

The monitoring of your hardware is very important to do preventive maintenance. With open manage you can recieved email or snmp trap to get the information or you can loggin in the interface present on the server.

• OVERVIEW OF INSTALLATION
• INSTALLATION OF REPOSITERY
• INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE
• PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

OVERVIEW OF INSTALLATION

You have two choice for the installation of openmanage:

• First Option :

You can download all package from this site http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/

• Second Option :

You can add the repository dell on your server, with this repository you can update and manage all dell package for the monitoring of your hardware.

(Possible Dependency IPMITOOL)

INSTALLATION OF REPOSITERY

Tested on RHEL4 & RHEL, Centos and Fedora.

#wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash

Now your repos is present in your server, you have to install some package.

INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE

On Centos, RHEL 5 or Fedora Core

#yum install srvadmin-all

On RHEL 4

Now you can start all services with this command line :

#/usr/bin/srvadmin-services.sh start

If you want to have a limited installation without all dependency, you can install thoses packages:

#yum install srvadmin-base srvadmin-webserver srvadmin-storageservices srvadmin-diagnostics

with thoses Package you have the base services of openmanage with webserver and diagnostics mode and storage dependency

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

• srvadmin-all: Install all OMSA components
• srvadmin-base: Install only base OMSA, no web server
• srvadmin-diagnostics: Install OMSA diagnostics framework
• srvadmin-webserver: Install Web Interface
• srvadmin-storageservices: Install RAID Management
• srvadmin-rac3: Install components to manage the Dell Remote Access Card 3
• srvadmin-rac4: Install components to manage the Dell Remote Access Card 4
• srvadmin-rac5: Install components to manage the Dell Remote Access Card 5