Users Guide

3. To install the selected features, enter I. If you do not want to continue the installation, enter q to quit.

NOTE: After installing different features, you can also modify the same.

NOTE: To know if iDRAC Service Module is installed on your Linux operating system, run the command /etc/init.d/

dcismeng status. If the iDRAC Service Module is installed and running, the status running is displayed.

NOTE: Use the systemctl status dcismeng.service command instead of the init.d command to check if the

iDRAC Service Module is installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system.

NOTE: You must provide a unique port number in the range 1024 to 65535 if you chose to install iDRAC access via Host OS

feature. If you do not provide a port number, port number 1266 or a previously configured port (if any) is assigned by

default.

NOTE: if OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) is already installed on 1311, the same port could not be utilized for

iDRAC Service module.

NOTE: When iSM 3.4.0 or later is installed on Linux operating systems, a gnome warning is observed similar to: "failed to

rescan: Failed to parse /usr/share/applications/iDRACGUILauncher.desktop file: cannot process file of type application/x-

desktop".

Silent installation

You can install the iDRAC Service Module silently in the background without a user console. This can be achieved by using

setup.sh with parameters.

The parameters that can be passed to use setup.sh are:

Table 9. Silent installation

Parameter Description

-h Help: Displays the help

-i Install: Installs and enables the selected features

-x Express: Installs and enables all available features

-d Delete: Uninstall the iDRAC Service Module component

-w Watchdog: Enables the Watchdog Instrumentation Service.

-I LC LOG: Enables the Lifecycle Log Information

-o OS Information: Enables the Operating System Information

-a Autostart: Start the installed service after the component has been installed

-O iDRAC access via Host OS: Enables the iDRAC access GUI, WSMan, Redfish, Remote Racadm

-s Enables the in-band SNMP traps

-g Enables access via SNMP Get

-Sr Enables the iDRAC SSO login as Readonly user

-Sa Enables the iDRAC SSO login as Administrator

-Sm Enables the Chipset SATA HDD S.M.A.R.T monitoring

NOTE: On Linux operating systems, if a feature modifying operation with silent option is enabled from the Linux webpack

(using setup.sh), then the previously enabled feature states will be overridden by the new features select during modifying

operation.

Uninstalling the iDRAC Service Module on Linux operating system

The iDRAC Service Module can be uninstalled in two different methods:

Installing iDRAC Service Module