Users Guide
110 Installing Managed System Software on Supported Linux Operating Systems
6
Choose
c
to copy,
i
to install,
r
to reset and start over, or
q
to quit.
• If you choose
c
, you are prompted to enter the absolute destination path.
• If you choose
i
, a message states that the RPMs will be installed in the
/opt/dell/srvadmin
directory. You can then choose
y
to change, or <Enter> to use the default installation path.
When the installation is completed, the script will have an option for starting the services.
NOTE: Just before the Server Administrator RPMs are installed, the srvadmin-install.sh shell script
automatically calls the srvadmin-openipmi.sh shell script to ensure that a sufficient version of the OpenIPMI
driver is currently installed on the system. If a sufficient version is not found, the srvadmin-install.sh shell
script calls the srvadmin-openipmi.sh shell script to attempt to install a sufficient version. If the attempt fails
for any reason, an appropriate error message will be displayed with instructions describing how to resolve
the error. After resolving any error, you should then re-run the srvadmin-install.sh shell script to install the
managed system components.
7
Choose
n
to start the services manually.
Performing an Unattended Installation of the Managed System Software
You can use The Dell PowerEdge Installation and Server Management CD’s Express Install and
Custom Install options for the unattended installation procedure.
Unattended installation allows you simultaneously to install Server Administrator on multiple systems.
You can perform an unattended installation by creating an unattended installation package that contains
all of the necessary managed system software files.
The unattended installation package is distributed to the remote systems using a software distribution
tool from an ISV. After the package is distributed, RPM installs the software.
The custom unattended installation package is located in the directory you created as detailed in the
section "Using the Shell Script to Perform the Custom Installation in Interactive Mode." This directory
contains all the RPMs for the managed system software components for distribution.
1
Configure your ISV software distribution software to execute
rpm –i *.rpm
after the unattended
installation package has been distributed.
2
Use your ISV distribution software to distribute the unattended installation package to the remote
systems. The RPM command installs Server Administrator on each remote system.
Dependency Check
RPM has a test feature that verifies software dependencies without actually installing any software.
To execute this dependency check, type rpm –ihv *.rpm –-test. This command is valid for all the
the types of installation.
NOTE: The rpm command’s –-test feature does not perform any hardware verification. It will only check for
RPM software dependencies.