OSMA 5 on Fedora Core 4

[Steven Wayne]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:56:24PM +0100, Robert Ham wrote:
> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:56:24 +0100
> From: Robert Ham <robert_ham at bristol-city.gov.uk>
> Subject: OSMA 5 on Fedora Core 4
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I administer a PowerEdge 4300 which has Fedora Core 4 installed on it.  I've been trying to get OSMA installed.  Unfortunately, I get this:
> 
> [edisroh at genesis RPMS]$ pwd
> /home/edisroh/no-backup/omsa5/linux/RPMS
> [edisroh at genesis RPMS]$ sudo rpm -ivh srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> srvadmin-deng: not supported on this system (sysid=007C)
> error: %pre(srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463
> [edisroh at genesis RPMS]$
> 
> 
> I must say, I find this most disturbing.  No software has failed, and
> yet an error has been raised.  The software has been explicitly designed
> to fail for a particular class of users.  A decision was made by a
> person to reduce the operating ability of their software; to purposely
> break an otherwise unbroken tool.  What reason is there for this
> insanity?
 
Hi,

I agree, but I have a fix.

Run /opt/dell/srvadmin/omil/prereqcheck/sysreport and get your machine ID.

vi /opt/dell/srvadmin/omil/prereqcheck/syslist.txt and add your machine. 

Steven.
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