OMSA from hardware repo on PE R805 / CentOS 5.2 x86_64
Eric Yablonowitz
eyablon at tripadvisor.com
Thu Oct 16 14:24:13 CDT 2008
5.4.1 from yum has worked fine on 6 R905s and 2 R805s at our site.
Would love to get this into latest so our standard install scripts
work OOTB.
Thanks!
Eric
On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:15 AM, <Jeffrey_L_Mendoza at dell.com> <Jeffrey_L_Mendoza at dell.com
> wrote:
> 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
>
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