Users Guide

Contents 7
7 Installing Managed System Software
on Supported Linux
Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Software License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Server Administrator Device Drivers . . . . . . . . . . 93
Dynamic Kernel Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Determining the Running Kernel
. . . . . . . . . . 94
Dynamic Kernel Support Prerequisites
. . . . . . 94
Using Dynamic Kernel Support After
Server Administrator Installation. . . . . . . . . . 94
Copying a Dynamically Built Device Driver
to Systems Running the Same Kernel . . . . . . . 95
OpenIPMI Device Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Degradation of Functionality When the
Server Administrator Instrumentation Service
is Started
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Installing Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . 97
Prerequisites for Installing Managed System
Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Installing Managed System Software Using
Dell-Provided Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Determining the OpenManage Server Administrator
Architecture
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Dependent RPMs for Remote Enablement . . . . . . . 106
Installing Dependent RPMs
. . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Post-Installation Configuration for
Remote Enablement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Creating Server Certificate for WSMAN
. . . . . . 108
Configuring CRL for the openwsman Client
. . . . 109
Running sfcb and openwsman
. . . . . . . . . . . 109