Install Guide

Installing management station software on

supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE

Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX/ESXi

Server

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

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.

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

operating system as follows:

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

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

To install the latest version of RAC Tools:

1. Uninstall the existing IPMI tool:

a. Query the existing IPMI tool: rpm -qa | grep ipmitool

If the IPMI tool is already installed, the query returns ipmitool-x.x.xx-x.x.xx.

b. To uninstall the IPMI tool:

• On systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and VMware ESX Server, type rpm -e ipmitool-x.x.xx-

x.x.xx

• On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, type rpm –e ipmitool

• On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, type rpm –e OpenIPMI-tools

NOTE: The settings made by the existing IPMITOOL is retained.

NOTE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x is not supported from OpenManage 8.4

2. Browse to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/rac/<OS> directory and then type rpm -ivh *.rpm