OMSA 5 and removing openipmi/dkms dependencies

[Graeme Tattersall]

Hi Patrick,

You know, that's not exactly a very helpful answer...  It's not reasonable
to take the risk of installing GCC on production boxes.

Your server monitoring software shouldn't require it, Dell should re-think
how it handles this going forward.  If OMSA can't/won't monitor production
boxes, then that negates a large advantage Dell has when we come around to
selecting suppliers.

Can't you provide a kernel-modules rpm built for the various supported
operating systems?   It'd need updating it any time there's a major system
update (Rhel4U2 -> U3) or kernel release.

GT

Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> These dependancies are needed for server monitoring tasks. Without them
> all you will be able to do is monitor RAID. 
> 
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> Subject: OMSA 5 and removing openipmi/dkms dependencies
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> 
> Is there a way to remove the openipmi/dkms dependencies from omsa 5? I
> don't use ipmi and have a policy of not installing gcc on production
> boxes. srvadmin-hapi rpm seems to be the one requiring openipmi/dkms.
> 

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