minimal open manage server admin

[Jon Sabo]

Thank you very much!

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:09:02PM -0400, Jon Sabo wrote:
> >    I'm sure this has been asked and answered on here a few times but I
> >    couldn't seem find it in the threads.
> >
> >    What are the minimum rpm's required for Dell Open Manage server
> admin?*
> >    The goals are to be able to automattically configure the bios
> settings, on
> >    board raid cards,
>
> For this, the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) is even more minimal than
> OMSA.  See ftp.dell.com/sysman/dtk-* files for the latest.
>
> >   and whatever monitoring comes along with it.* No DRAC
> >    cards in the servers.
>
> not sure what monitoring you need, but then you likely need OMSA, not
> just DTK.
>
> >    The other question is about DKMS.* Is it required and do you need to
> have
> >    a compiler installed (gcc) to use Dell Open Manage* Server Admin.* I'm
> >    looking for the basic functionality minus all unnessary daemons and
> web
> >    services.* I just want the cli.* This is for RHEL4 and RHEL5 os's.
>
> No, you do not need a compiler installed.  DKMS doesn't require one.
> However, you don't get the
> automatically-recompiled-modules-for-your-kernel feature then.
>
> For RHEL 4.7 (and probably somewhat earlier), and RHEL5, you shouldn't
> need any DKMSified drivers to run OMS.  The kernel has sufficient
> IPMI, dcdbas, and dell_rbu drivers already.
>
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
>
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