OMSA from hardware repo on PE R805 / CentOS 5.2 x86_64

Tue Oct 7 14:05:50 CDT 2008

Jeff,

Your advice worked perfectly. Not sure if there any specific feedback
you're looking for, but on my R805 it installed and ran without
incident. Thanks for the information, it was very helpful.

-Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey_L_Mendoza at Dell.com [mailto:Jeffrey_L_Mendoza at Dell.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:16 AM
To: Adrian Schmitz; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: OMSA from hardware repo on PE R805 / CentOS 5.2 x86_64

OMSA 5.4 did not support the R805. I've had 5.4.1 out as "testing" since
the end of August. No feedback, so I haven't updated the "latest"
symlink. Here are the instructions to try it out:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mendoza, Jeff
> Sent: Wed 8/27/2008 1:34 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: [testing] OMSA 5.4.1 available in yum repositories
>  
> Hi All,
> 
> We now have OMSA 5.4.1 available for testing in the Dell hardware 
> repository at http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/.
> OMSA 5.4.1 supports the PowerEdge R805, R905, and T605 systems. The 
> 5.4.1 repository still contains OMSA 5.4 for systems other than those 
> listed. If you have one of the listed systems (or even if you don't), 
> please give the 5.4.1 repository a try. After a few success reports, 
> we will update the 'latest' link to 5.4.1. The 'latest_quarterly' link

> will remain on 5.4.
> 
> To try the 5.4.1 repository, bootstrap the repository as normal, then 
> change the config as follows:
> 
> YUM:
>   In both /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-hw-indep-repository.repo and 
> /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-hw-specific-repository.repo, find the string 
> "repo_config=$repo_config", and change it to read, 
> "repo_config=OMSA_5.4.1".
> 
> UP2DATE:
>   same as yum, except you need to change the string in 
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources in two places, rather than in the yum 
> repository files.
> 
> SUSE 10:
>   No idea. Anybody who knows how to do this should let me know. :)  
> See above for the general outline.
> 
> Note that the repository is still community-support only.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff Mendoza
> 
> 

________________________________

	From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Schmitz
	Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:08 AM
	To: linux-poweredge-Lists
	Subject: OMSA from hardware repo on PE R805 / CentOS 5.2 x86_64

	Hi,

	I'm having some trouble getting OMSA to install from the yum
repo ( using the instructions at
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/hardware). It's a new
PowerEdge R805 (I have a couple of them to do, plus a handful of 2950s
and 1950s when I'm done with the R805s), running CentOS 5.2 x86_64. The
bootstrap script appears to run fine and the repositories get added to
my yum.repos.d, but afterwards a "yum install srvadmin-all" results in
the following:

	[root at HOST03 ~]# yum install srvadmin-all

	Loading "fastestmirror" plugin

	Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin

	Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

	 * dell-software: linux.dell.com

	 * dell-hardware-auto: linux.dell.com

	 * base: repo.bioinformatics.upenn.edu

	 * updates: www.gtlib.gatech.edu

	 * addons: wuarchive.wustl.edu

	 * dell-hardware-main: linux.dell.com

	 * extras: mirror.atlanticmetro.net

	Setting up Install Process

	Parsing package install arguments

	No package srvadmin-all available.

	Nothing to do

	[root at HOST03 ~]#

	I've tried all the suggestions on the FAQ
(http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/FAQ) that I thought
looked applicable, but to no avail:

	-          I've run a "yum clean all"

	-          I've verified that plugins=1 in my yum.conf, and
verified that the dell  plugin is, in fact, present in
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/

	-          By default, distroverpkg=redhat-release in my
yum.conf. Based on a suggestion on the FAQ, I tried changing that to
distroverpkg=centos-release instead, but that didn't seem to make a
difference. Still, not sure if there's anything additional I need to do
after making this change for it to take effect. For now, since it didn't
appear to help, I've changed it back to redhat-release.

	-          Run getSystemId and verified that my system ID
(0x0221) is listed as a supported system. Verified that the packages for
this system are present in the repo.

	I'm not sure what else to try at this point. I hope I'm just
missing something silly. I realize CentOS is not an officially supported
platform, but any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks in
advance. Below is some command output that I thought might be helpful.

	-Adrian

	getSystemId:

	Libsmbios:    2.0.1

	System ID:    0x0221

	Service Tag:  XXXXXXX  <- edited

	Express Service Code: XXXXXXXXXXX <- edited

	Product Name: PowerEdge R805

	BIOS Version: 1.0.2

	Vendor:       Dell Inc.

	Is Dell:      1

	uname -a:

	Linux HOST03 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 5 07:42:41 EDT
2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

	cat /etc/redhat-release:

	                CentOS release 5.2 (Final)

	ls /etc/yum.repos.d/:

	                CentOS-Base.repo  CentOS-Media.repo
dell-hw-indep-repository.repo  dell-hw-specific-repository.repo
dell-unsupported-repository.repo

	yum search srvadmin:

	                Loading "fastestmirror" plugin

	Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin

	Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

	 * dell-software: linux.dell.com

	 * dell-hardware-auto: linux.dell.com

	 * base: mirror.atlanticmetro.net

	 * updates: wuarchive.wustl.edu

	 * addons: mirror.trouble-free.net

	 * dell-hardware-main: linux.dell.com

	 * extras: www.gtlib.gatech.edu

	No Matches found

	rpm -qa dell*:

	dell-unsupported-repository-1-4.el5

	dell-hw-specific-repository-1-13.el5

	dell-hw-indep-repository-1-15