Installation manual

Server Administrator detects that the device driver you copied to the /var/omsa/dks/<kernel> directory supports the

running kernel and uses that device driver.

OpenIPMI Device Driver

The Server Instrumentation feature of Server Administrator requires the OpenIPMI device driver that provides IPMI-

based information and functionality.

All supported Linux systems contain the required version of IPMI module in the default kernel itself. You do not have to

install the IPMI RPM. For more information on supported systems, see the

Dell Systems Software Support Matrix

available at support.dell.com/manuals.

Degradation of Functionality When the Server Administrator Instrumentation Service is

Started

After Server Administrator is installed, the Server Administrator Instrumentation Service performs a run‑time check of

the OpenIPMI device driver whenever it is started. The Server Administrator Instrumentation Service is started

whenever you run either the srvadmin-services.sh start or srvadmin‑services.sh restart commands, or when you restart

the system (during which the Server Administrator Instrumentation Service is started.)

Server Administrator installation blocks the installation of Server Administrator packages if an appropriate version of the

OpenIPMI device driver is not currently installed on the system. However, it is still possible, though not typical, that you

can uninstall or replace a sufficient version of the OpenIPMI device driver after Server Administrator has been installed.

Server Administrator cannot prevent this.

To account for a user uninstalling or replacing a sufficient version of the OpenIPMI device driver after Server

Administrator has been installed, the Server Administrator Instrumentation Service checks the OpenIPMI device driver

version whenever it is started. If a sufficient version of the OpenIPMI device driver is not found, the Server Administrator

Instrumentation Service degrades itself so that it does not provide any of the IPMI-based information or functionality.

Primarily, this means that it does not provide any probe data (for example, fans, temperatures, and voltage probe data.)

Installing Managed System Software

This section explains how to install managed system software using the following installation options:

• Using the srvadmin-install.sh shell script

NOTE: If you have downloaded the managed system software installer (available as a .tar.gz file) from

support.dell.com, the srvadmin-install.sh shell script is present as setup.sh in the root directory.

• Using the RPM command