Dell OMSA 5.2 installation on CentOS 4.5 x86_64

[Eugene Pik]

Hi Faris,
I had installed OMSA before Virtuozzo. Indeed, Virtuozzo updated the
kernel, but that did not break the OMSA, which is still running fine.

The only tip I can give in regard to the Virtuozzo 300SP1 x86_64
installation is "Do not reboot after its initial install. Run
vzup2date to get the latest updates."
Otherwise your CentOS 4.5 on Poweredge1950 will not boot. The original
(not updated) installation doesn't have necessary RAID drivers.

Regards,
Eugene Pik

On 7/22/07, Faris Raouf <asterisk at raouf.net> wrote:
> That's very helpful Eugene. I've bookmarked it in case I need it in the
> future (but see below)
>
> But something isn't quite right here maybe?
>
> We have almost exactly the same setup - PE1950, Centos 4.5 x86_64,
> Virtuozzo.
>
> I did my install of OMSA just before the latest round of changes to the
> repository began -- it would have been maybe 4 weeks to 6 weeks ago -- so
> maybe things have changed since then. But at the time I'm 99% sure all I
> needed to do was install the bootstrap and yum install svradmin-all and that
> was it other than making sure ipmi loaded manually afterwards.
>
> The key thing that bothers me from what happened to you is that the
> kernel-devel package won't match the actual kernel installed because the
> system will be running a custom SW Soft Kernel, with no matching
> kernel-devel in the centos repositories, so I don't see what use it would be
> to have it (or does the OMSA installation script just need to see that one
> exists - even if it does not match the running kernel, in order to
> install?). Having said that I would have had the kernel-devel-2.6.9-55
> package (for the non-sw-soft kernel) installed anyway. I would also have had
> all the 32-bit compatibility packages installed by default too (I knew I
> would need them).
>
> Did you have the latest Virtuozzo kernel installed when you did this? Linux
> 2.6.9-023stab044.4-smp is the one we are running and this is the very latest
> as far as I know.
>
> Faris.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Eugene Pik
> Sent: 21 July 2007 05:48
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Dell OMSA 5.2 installation on CentOS 4.5 x86_64
>
> I have posted steps, problems, and their resolution of the OMSA 5.2
> installation on CentOS 4.5
>
> I'd like to thank everybody on that list and especially Matt Domsch
> and Michael Brown for you great help.
>
> http://www.fundraisinghosting.com/wp/2007/07/20/dell-omsa-52-installation-on
> -centos-45/
>
> Regards,
> Eugene Pik, CTO
> New Vision Fundraising Services
>
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