OMSA 5 and removing openipmi/dkms dependencies

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

We do provide binaries for most of the kernels that are in supported
Oses. Or you could always build the drive on one non-production server
and put it on the production boxes. I know that this isn't very helpful
but I'm afraid that it is the best that I can do.

Patrick Boyd
Dell Storage Software Engineer
(512)728-3182


-----Original Message-----
From: Graeme Tattersall [mailto:graeme.tattersall at lumison.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 6:40 AM
To: Boyd, Patrick
Cc: gman at infinex.com; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: OMSA 5 and removing openipmi/dkms dependencies


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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> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of G-man
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:49 PM
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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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