Dell openmanage , Redhat and Perc6i question

[Abhishek Lahiri]

Thanks for the reply. I will try it out. Although at this moment it seems
yum package is not available with RHEL4 (it seems RHEL5 has yum though). I
would like to stick to the standard ISO and OS images as much as possible
(since these would be production servers I want the deployments to be as
simple as possible).To that end if yum is not available with RHEL4 I have to
think of another way to identify and install the dell drivers.

Also I was wondering if it is really necessary to install any dell specific
driver for the perc5i/6i controller and the intel quad ethernet card? It
seems to me that during install redhat will automatically load the megaraid
driver and the appropiate ethernet driver for the quad card. In production
scenarios (i.e where you are doing kickstarting a whole bunch of
servers) does anyone even use the dell utilities and the bunch of cd's that
come with each server?

Thanks
Alex


On 12/13/07, Jiann-Ming Su <sujiannming at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 6:01 PM, Abhishek Lahiri <lahirister at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have got a bunch of Dell 1950 and 2950 servers to install RHEL AS4
> for
> > CRM application. I have a few questions regarding how to set up the new
> > servers:
> >
> > 1) I am planning to kickstart the servers with RHEL AS4U4. I am
> wondering if
> > I can do this or I have to take into consideration anything specific to
> Dell
> > Hardware? Specifically what are the Dell specific packages I need to
> install
> > for monitoring. I just need to be able to get alerts in case of any
> hardware
> > failure.
> >
>
> Add the following to the %post section of your kickstart file:
>
> # Install Dell OpenManage
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> yum -y install srvadmin-storage srvadmin-base
> chkconfig --level 2345 dsm_sa_ipmi on
>
> The above command will download some dell specific repo files into
> /etc/yum.repos.d.
>
> >
> > 3) If I have to get the drivers seperately is it possible to still
> kickstart
> > the servers and install the drivers?
> >
>
> Look for the "driverdisk" option in the kickstart options of the RHEL
> sysadmin guide.
>
>
>
>
>
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