OMSA 4.5 to 5 upgrade problems

[Jeff Boyce]

Greetings -

A few weeks ago OMSA quit reporting sensor information on my PE2600.  From 
some of the discussions on this list I am assuming that this was the result 
of a kernel upgrade RHEL3U7 to U8 and a resulting conflict in the ipmi 
drivers for OMSA.  Anyway, I decided that a simple solution to what may be 
causing the problem would be to upgrade OMSA to version 5.0.  I downloaded 
the file OMI-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-50_A00.tar.gz from the Dell ftp site, 
untarred it and burned it onto a cd.  I read through the installation readme 
and the quick installation guide.  My system met all the system requirements 
and is a fully up to date RHEL3U8 system.  The installation guide 
recommended using the installation script srvadmin-install.sh to complete 
the upgrade.  This resulted in the following dependency error:

openipmi >= 35.12 is needed by srvadmin-ipmi-5.0.0-NNN.rhel3

Since I am a novice linux system administrator I opted at this point to try 
the unofficial Dell Yum repository for OMSA.  (Kudos to whoever wrote the 
Yum repository instructions as they are clear and easy for a novice to 
understand and implement).  I followed these steps:

1.  imported rpm-gpg key
2.  checked to make sure system was fully up2date
3.  set up to pull from Dell yum repository using:
     wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/bootstrap.sh | bash
4.  Tried running the bootstrap script using:
     wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/bootstrap-omsa-all.sh | 
bash
     This failed with the following errors:
     bash: line 1: wget:: command not found
     bash: line 2: Usage:: command not found
     bash: line 4: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
     bash: line 5: syntax error: unexpected end of file
5.  Tried the alternate approach described using
     up2date -i srvadmin-all
     This appeared to work as my up2date icon notified me that there were 
packages to manually install
6.  Ran up2date GUI to complete the installation.

I then checked to make sure that the OMSA services were started and then 
pointed my desktop browser to my server at port 1311 to view OMSA.  Checking 
the About link shows that the OMSA version installed is 5.0.0.  Now here is 
where the problem is visible.  OMSA does not display any information about 
my system.  In fact it is now showing less information than when version 4.5 
was installed.  Some of the menu tree is present on the left side of the 
page, but nothing is even listed under my operating system information item. 
The alert log is the only item which displays any information.  I am 
assuming that I have a corrupt installation, but am not sure how to fix it. 
As I mentioned I am a novice, so should I uninstall OMSA 5.0, uninstall OMSA 
4.5, remove all of the 4.5 files from my system,  how is this done and what 
order should this be done to clean it up properly?  Can I then use the 
up2date approach to install a clean OMSA 5.0 without a previous version on 
my system?  Any and all help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Jeff Boyce
www.meridianenv.com