Failed to load OMSA on CentOS 5 on old PE 2490?
Zembower, Kevin
kzembowe at jhuccp.org
Wed May 28 12:34:14 CDT 2008
I'm having trouble trying to load OMSA on my first CentOS 5 host, after
having successfully loaded it on RHEL4 and Debian. I pasted in the full
output of my attempt at the end of this note. In summary, everything
seemed to work fine (no error messages), but nothing seemed to happen. I
can't find or run any of the files that I thought should have been
installed.
I did notice from the troubleshooting guide at
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/FAQ, this note:
OMSA is only available for certain Dell PowerEdge server models.
Notably, "SC"-class systems do not have OMSA available. To check to see
if OMSA is available on your system, use the "getSystemId' executable to
look up your "System ID". Then go to the repository to see if there is a
"system_ven_0x1028_dev_YOUR_SYSID" directory (substitute your system id
as appropriate).
I get:
[root at myhost ~]# getSystemId
Libsmbios: 2.0.2
System ID: 0x00A6
Service Tag: 3DKF30B
Express Service Code: 7350703355
Product Name: PowerEdge 2450
BIOS Version: A09
Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
Is Dell: 1
[root at myhost ~]#
There isn't a "system_ven_0x1028_dev_0x00A6" in the repository at
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/. Is this the problem? Does
it just fail silently?
Any suggestions on what I can try next to install OMSA? Thanks in
advance for your advice and suggestions.
-Kevin
Kevin Zembower
Internet Services Group manager
Center for Communication Programs
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
410-659-6139
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[kevinz at myhost ~]$ sudo wget -q -O -
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
Password:
Downloading GPG key:
http://linux.dell.com//repo/hardware/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
Importing key into RPM.
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted
(1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
error: GPG-KEY: import failed.
GPG-KEY import failed.
Either there was a problem downloading the key,
or you do not have sufficient permissions to import the key.
[kevinz at myhost ~]$ sudo su -
[root at myhost ~]# wget -q -O -
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
Downloading GPG key:
http://linux.dell.com//repo/hardware/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
Importing key into RPM.
Downloading GPG key:
http://linux.dell.com//repo/hardware/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios
Importing key into RPM.
Installing platform-independent RPM:
dell-hw-indep-repository-1-15.noarch.rpm
Installing platform-specific repository RPM.
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
fwupdate 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB
00:00
dell-software 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB
00:00
dell-hardware-auto 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
dell-hardware-main 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
Done!
========================================================================
=====
If you encounter problems, please read the FAQ at:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/FAQ
========================================================================
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[root at myhost ~]# yum update
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
[root at myhost ~]# yum install srvadmin-all
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[root at myhost ~]# omreport chassis
-bash: omreport: command not found
[root at myhost ~]# yum clean all
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Cleaning up Everything
[root at myhost ~]# yum update
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
fwupdate 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB
00:00
dell-software 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB
00:00
dell-hardware-auto 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
dell-hardware-main 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 107 kB
00:00
################################################## 1099/1099
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 10 kB
00:00
################################################## 51/51
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 6.2 kB
00:00
################################################## 22/22
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 834 kB
00:01
################################################## 2400/2400
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 278 kB
00:00
################################################## 502/502
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 157 B
00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 6.2 kB
00:00
################################################## 22/22
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 105 kB
00:00
################################################## 369/369
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
[root at myhost ~]# yum install srvadmin-all
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
[root at myhost ~]# yum install srvadmin-all
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[root at myhost ~]# updatedb
[root at myhost ~]# locate omreport
Nothing to do
[root at myhost ~]# updatedb
[root at myhost ~]# locate omreport
[root at myhost ~]# srvadmin-services.sh start
-bash: srvadmin-services.sh: command not found
[root at myhost ~]#
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