OMSA 5 and removing openipmi/dkms dependencies

[Tom Brown]

> 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.

Yes - take a test box and install the same OS, same kernel and gcc etc 
and then install OM. Then take the contents of /var/omsa/dks/<kernel 
version>/ and copy this to the same place on the target machine. Then 
proceed to install OM and you can install without needing gcc.

thanks