Install Guide

Installing management station software on
supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Only iDRAC tools are supported on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems.
On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, DVDs are automounted with the -noexec mount option. You cannot run
any executable program from the DVD. Mount the DVD-ROM manually and then run the executable programs.
To install iDRAC tools, go to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux directory and install the BMU RPM specific to the operating
system.
To install the latest version of iDRAC Tools, do the following:
For IPMI:
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x and 8.x, type rpm –e ipmitool
NOTE:
The existing settings that are defined in the IPMITOOL are retained.
2. Browse to the iDRACTOOLS\ipmitool\<OS> directory and then type rpm -ivh *.rpm.
For RACADM:
1. To install RACADM:
a. Go to the directory, where the tar.gz of iDRACTools is downloaded.
b. Run the tar -zxvf on the tar.gz to unzip the contents into the current directory.
c. From the current directory, where you have extracted the files, go to /linux/rac folder.
d. To install the RACADM binary, start the script install_racadm.sh.
NOTE:
Open a new console window to run the RACADM commands. You cannot run the RACADM commands from
the console window using which you started the install_racadm.sh script.
2. If you get an SSL error message for remote RACADM, do the following:
a. Run the command openssl version to find the openssl version installed in the Host operating system.
b. Locate the openSSL libraries, which are present in the HOST operating system, for example, ls -l /usr/lib64/libssl*.
c. Soft-link the library libssl.so using the ln -s command to the appropriate OpenSSL version present in the Host operating
system, for example, ln -s /usr/lib64/libssl.so.<version> /usr/lib64/libssl.so.
3. To uninstall RACADM, use the uninstall_racadm.sh script.
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