Failed to load OMSA on CentOS 5 on old PE 2490?

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:34:14PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> 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.

Latest OMSA doesn't support the PowerEdge 2450 any more.  None of the
OMSA versions in the yum repository do.  You'll have to go back to a
much earlier version of OMSA, probably pre-dating OMSA 5.0, which may
not easily work on CentOS 5.

May I recommend a newer server? Perhaps one made this century?  :-)

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux