OMSA 5 and removing openipmi/dkms dependencies

Fri Aug 4 08:04:29 CDT 2006

GT,

I don't install GCC on my production servers either.  But, there is a way
for you to build the required modules. (I  don't know how as I was not the
one who figured it out, but know that there is a way)  Then, once you have
the pre-built modules, all you need to do is to put them in place before
you install the rest of OMSA.  OMSA will detect that the drivers for the
kernel are already built so it won't try to build them again.  The only
catch with this is that if you upgrade your kernel, you'll need to build
the modules again and put them in place before you upgrade your production
machines.

As for OpenIPMI, we're all out of luck there.  I believe that OpenIPMI just
replaces the old 'esm' module that used to be provided with OMSA.  I guess
that Dell figured that they didn't need to reinvent the wheel when there
was already an open source module out there that did the same thing.

     - Tom

                    Graeme Tattersall                                                                                                    
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                    08/04/2006 07:39 AM                                                                                                  

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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> 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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