Compatibility Guide

72 Dell OpenManage Supported Applications and Systems
Device Drivers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Kernel Support
NOTE: The "Supported Operating Systems" section of Table 4-9 and Table 4-10
includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel versions. Updated or later versions of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux may require the use of dynamic kernel support (see Dell
OpenManage Installation and Security User’s Guide for an explanation of
this feature).
The Instrumentation Service provides device drivers for the precompiled
kernels listed in Table 4-9 and Table 4-10. When the Instrumentation Service
detects that none of its prebuilt device drivers supports the running kernel, it
attempts to build a device driver for that kernel. This feature of Server
Administrator is called dynamic kernel support. Server Administrator's
dynamic kernel support builds a device driver when needed during the
Instrumentation Service installation or start-up.