Topic: Installing Dell PowerEdge OpenMange

[markdeblois]

Hi there,

Can anyone tell me how to install the Dell OpenManage software under SME Server 7.x? The reason why I want to install it is that it apparantly should give me GUI based raid management tools.

I have posted an earlier question on this here:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=36984.0

And does anyone have experience with installing Dell hardware raid software using:
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/#yum

I am having trouble with the repositories, it can't find the necessary packages when I follow instructions.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

cheers,
Mark

[T-rex]

Hi,

Did you sucessfully install SME 7.x on a Dell Poweredge?  Is it working?  The Service Assistant included with all the PE's says it "should" work with a rebuilt CentOS product.  No guarnatee.  They are pretty specific in how to reload under Linux, guess you have to follow it explicitly.  I wish I could help but I am really a nubie to all this.  I have PE 2400 and haven't even found a way to load SME 7 on it yet.

Gl,

T-rex

[markdeblois]

Yes, I have succesfully installed SME server on my PE SC1430, which has a SAS RAID 1 with 2 250Gb disks. Installation worked like a breeze actually. I am now just trying to figure out whether the raid is properly working or nog, preferably through a GUI, otherwise through command line. I am certainly a newbie when it comes to RAID configuration stuff.

Does yours not boot up the SME installation software?

cheers,
Mark

[T-rex]

Hello Again,

In your case, I believe, RAID 1 just mirrors your first drive with the second, so if drive 0 fails, you will still be live with drive 01.  I'm not certain 250 GB are necessary for that, or in SME how you would even tell they exist.  

In my case I have six 8 GB drives in my 2400, set as Raid 1 on Drive 0, it mirrors itself, and RAID 5 for the other five drives.  I'm sure my use of this server is different from yours.  

As far as SME 7.x booting up, in the release notes it says they removed the bootable installer, and you have to type "smei586" at the boot prompt.  My problem is I have Win Server 2000 on here and don't see a boot prompt.  So   at this point, I will have to probably install SME 6.x and then upgrade.  

This is great experience for me and my dependency on GUI's has me thinking Server 2003!

Gl,

T-rex

[hedererjs]

The way should be :

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set dellhw-repository repository \
BaseURL http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/ \
Name 'Dell HW' \
EnableGroups yes \
Visible yes \
GPGCheck no \
status disabled

yum --enablerepo=dellhw-repository install srvadmin-all

signal-event post-upgrade

signal-event reboot

(but didn't tried).

[markdeblois]

Thanks. I seem to have succesfully added the repository. But when I enter:
yum --enablerepo=dellhw-repository install srvadmin-all

I get the message "Error getting repository data for dellhw-repository, repository not found". Any ideas what is going wrong? I have an internet connection and can ping the Dell site!

cheers, Mark

[hedererjs]

Tested it within a vritual machine. I think you have to choose your hardware in http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/ and then choose "el4.i386" to have your path

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set dellhw-repository repository \
BaseURL http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/xxxx/el4.i386/ \
Name 'Dell HW' \
EnableGroups yes \
Visible yes \
GPGCheck no \
status disabled

Then do (what I had forgotten):

expand-template /etc/yum.conf

And then:

yum --enablerepo=dellhw-repository install srvadmin-all

signal-event post-upgrade

signal-event reboot

but i only have a 6400 that is not in the list.

[markdeblois]

Thanks again. I am using a PowerEdge SC1430 with a Dual Core Xeon processor. I guess I'd have to choose el4.x86_64 in that case as this processor is capable of 64 bit computer?! Do you know about this?

Thanks again!
Mark

[markdeblois]

With the addition of http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/pe1430/el4.i386 I finally have been able to add the repository. I had to enable the repository in the server-manager first, which I wasn't aware of. It then went and got about 19 packages!

However, I am still not able to install OpenManage. When I type:

yum --enablerepo=dellhw-repository install srvadmin-all

it gives me an error message saying it cannot install srvadmin-all. Should this package be available to all PowerEdge machines?

And is el4.i386 what I need for a Xeon Dual Core?

Thanks!

[Stefano]

Thanks again. I am using a PowerEdge SC1430 with a Dual Core Xeon processor. I guess I'd have to choose el4.x86_64 in that case as this processor is capable of 64 bit computer?! Do you know about this?

Thanks again!
Mark

I don't think so.. Sme isn't 64 bit...

Ciao
Stefano

[hedererjs]

tried with PE6600 and it installed in a virtual machine. Not having a true PE to test, test is not really full:

Installed: srvadmin-all.i386 0:5.2.0-460
Dependency Installed: compat-libstdc++-33.i386 0:3.2.3-47.3 dkms.noarch 0:2.0.13-1 openipmi.noarch 0:33.13.RHEL4-1dkms srvadmin-base.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-cm.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-deng.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-diagnostics.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-hapi.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-ipmi.i386 0:5.2.0-460.rhel4 srvadmin-isvc.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-iws.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-jre.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-odf.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-old.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-omacore.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-omauth.i386 0:5.2.0-460.rhel4 srvadmin-omhip.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-omilcore.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-rac3.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-rac3-components.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-rac4.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-rac4-components.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-rac5.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-rac5-components.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-racadm4.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-racadm5.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-racdrsc3.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-racdrsc4.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-racdrsc5.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-racser.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-racsvc.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-racvnc.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-storage.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-storageservices.i386 0:5.2.0-460 srvadmin-webserver.i386 0:5.2.0-460
Complete!
==============================================================
WARNING: You now need to run BOTH of the following commands
to ensure consistent system state:

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

You should run these commands unless you are certain that
yum made no changes to your system.
==============================================================

however, I think it surelly changed some configuration files. so, files changed must be analyzed because restarting SME will override these configuration files.

[markdeblois]

Is there a way for me to download/install the srvadmin files directly, as I am having trouble accessing them through the repository?

cheers,
Mark

[hedererjs]

you can make a wget of all the files that you need in dell repository and then make a localinstall with yum.