Users Guide

Installing Management Station Software on

Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux

Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX Server

Only DRAC tools and BMU are supported on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX Server

operating systems.

On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system, DVDs are auto-mounted with the -noexec mount option. This option

does not allow you to run any executable from the DVD. You must mount the DVD-ROM manually and then run the executables.

1. To install BMU, navigate to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/bmc directory and install the BMU RPM specific to the

operating system with the following command:

• For systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, use rpm -ivh osabmcutil*-RHEL-*.rpm

• For systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, use rpm -ivh osabmcutil*-SUSE-*.rpm

2. To install the latest version of DRAC Tools:

a) Query the existing IPMI tool, to query use rpm -qa | grep ipmitool

The query returnsipmitool-x.x.xx-x.x.xx if the IPMI tool is already installed.

b) Uninstall the existing IPMI tool.

1. To uninstall the IPMI tool, for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and VMware ESX Server, use rpm -e ipmitool-x.x.xx-

x.x.xx

2. To uninstall the IPMI tool, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, use rpm –e OpenIPMI-tools

3. To uninstall the IPMI tool, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, use rpm –e ipmitool

3. Navigate to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/rac/<OS> directory and execute the following command: rpm -ivh

*.rpm

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