Users Guide
• Select servers on which you want to run this task and click Next.
4. On Schedule and Credentials, set the schedule parameters, provide user credentials to enable the task.
5. If you want to deploy Server Administrator as a sudo user, select Enable Sudo and update the SSH port number.
NOTE: Before you deploy OMSA using sudo, create a new user account, edit the sudoers le using the visudo
command, and add the following:
• For target systems running a 32-bit operating systems: Cmnd_Alias OMEUPDATE = /bin/tar,/bin/
cat,/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/omexec,/tmp/LinuxPreInstallPackage/runbada,/tmp/
LinuxPreInstallPackage/omexec <sudo_username> ALL=OMEUPDATE, NOPASSWD:OMEUPDATE.
• For target systems running a 64-bit operating systems: Cmnd_Alias OMEUPDATE = /bin/tar,/bin/
cat,/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/omexec,/tmp/LinuxPreInstallPackage64/runbada,/tmp/
LinuxPreInstallPackage64/omexec <sudo_username> ALL=OMEUPDATE, NOPASSWD:OMEUPDATE.
NOTE: If OMSA is uninstalled from a system by a root user, before deploying OMSA on that system using sudo,
make sure that all OMSA pre-installation package les are removed from the tmp folder.
NOTE: Deploying OMSA using sudo is not supported for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and ESX targets.
6. Click Finish.
For information about the elds in the Create a Deployment Task wizard, see Deployment Task.
Related links
Remote Tasks
Remote Tasks — Reference
Remote Tasks Home
Command Line Task
All Tasks
Device Capability Matrix
Supported Windows and Linux Packages
Windows Packages
Table 230. Windows Packages
Package Type Clean installation Major Version Upgrade (5.x
to 6.x to 7.x to 8.x)
Minor Version Upgrade (8.x
to 8.y)
.msi Supported Supported Supported
.msp Not supported Not supported Supported
.exe
NOTE: OMSA
deployment using
the .exe package is
supported only with Dell
Update Packages
(DUPs).
Not supported Supported Supported
Linux Packages
Table 231. Linux Packages
Operating System Package
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10
OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.5.0-2247.SLES10.x86_64_A01.6.tar.gz
OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.5.0-2247.SLES10.x86_64_A01.6.tar.gz.sign
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11
OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.5.0-2247.SLES11.i386_A01.14.tar.gz
OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.5.0-2247.SLES11.i386_A01.14.tar.gz.sign
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