PE 2950, 64-bit linux, dell utilities...

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of sean finney
> Sent: 09 November 2006 15:29
> To: Fuchs, Andreas
> Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: RE: PE 2950, 64-bit linux, dell utilities...
> 
> hi andreas,
> 
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:56 +0000, Andreas_Fuchs at Dell.com wrote:
> > Latest OMSA version 5.1 support officially the following OS's:
> > 
> > Red Hat(r) Enterprise Linux (version 3) Update 6 for 
> Intel(r) x86 Red 
> > Hat Enterprise Linux (version 3) Update 6 for Intel EM64T Red Hat 
> > Enterprise Linux (version 4) for Intel x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
> > (version 4) for Intel EM64T
> > SUSE(r) Linux Enterprise Server version 9 (SP3) x86_64 SUSE Linux 
> > Enterprise Server version 10 x86_64
> > VMware(r) ESX Server 3.0 on the service console
> > 
> > On all others you might have problems to get it to run.
> 
> for OMSA, i think the problems would be (a) converting rpms 
> to other packaging (deb) format, and (b) any "redhat-isms" in 
> the code (for example, sourcing /etc/init.d/functions instead 
> of using LSB functions from /lib/lsb/init-functions).
> 
> in the past with OMSA << v4, there were some clear problems 
> converting to .deb format, but since it was pretty well 
> documented, and it was only one package, it wasn't so hard to 
> fix it up.  now that there are several packages, i fear it 
> would take a bit of time to audit through them.
> 


There is some unofficial deb's of OMSA 5.0 available at:
ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/dell


This was posted some time ago on this list:

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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Bas van der Vlies
Sent: terça-feira, 12 de Setembro de 2006 15:02
To: Pauli Borodulin
Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: Debian GNU/Linux & Dell OMSA

Hello,

  Sander Keemink has done the most work in porting the OMSA 5.0.0 to 
debian. I only made some changes in creating the debian packages.

You can get the package from:
   ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/dell

There are 3 packages for Debian Sarge. There is a backport to Sarge for 
openipmi tools else omsa 5.0.0 did not work. So you have to build a 
kernel with ipmi modules enabled.

There is NO WARRANTY and NO DOCUMENTATION.

We have installed it on our 1850 cluster and everything works for us.

After installation run:
   omreport chassis

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Harald Jensås