Dell™ OpenManage™ Server Administrator is Dell's version of the HP System Management Homepage, as it allows you to log into a web interface to view system configuration, health, and performance statistics. Its availible for free and runs in Windows and Linux.
Dell makes the install easy on Linux due via a public rpm repo. The steps below outline the simple install process.
Install OpenManage Server Administrator
Step 1: wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash
Step 2: yum -y install srvadmin-all
Step 3: Start Systems Management Data Engine – /etc/init.d/dataeng start
Step 4: Start webinterface – /etc/init.d/dsm_om_connsvc start
Your system homepage is now availible via https://hostname:1311, where hostname is the hostname of your server.
Install Firmware/Bios Management Tools
Step 1: yum install dell_ft_install
Step 2: yum install $(bootstrap_firmware)
Now run either inventory_firmware or inventory_firmware_gui to view your firmware versions, and perform firmware upgrades.
hello, I face below error when use above method on my Dell2950 server.
sblim-sfcb-1.3.7-1.6.4.el5.x86_64 from dell-omsa-indep has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: perl(LWP::UserAgent) is needed by package sblim-sfcb-1.3.7-1.6.4.el5.x86_64 (dell-omsa-indep)
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(LWP::UserAgent) is needed by package sblim-sfcb-1.3.7-1.6.4.el5.x86_64 (dell-omsa-indep)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup –problems
package-cleanup –dupes
rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
Any resolution to this issue?
I don’t know if this is a very good solution, but it worked for me…
# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/cim-schema-2.22.0-1.el5.noarch.rpm
# wget http://mirror.remotelan.net/epel/5/x86_64/sblim-sfcb-1.3.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh cim-schema-2.22.0-1.el5.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh sblim-sfcb-1.3.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
and then try to install Dell OM again