Users Guide

Installing Managed System Software on Supported Linux Operating Systems 111
Creating and Distributing the Express Unattended Installation Package
The Express Install unattended installation option uses the /srvadmin/linux/supportscripts and the
/srvadmin/linux/RPMS subdirectories of the Dell PowerEdge Installation and Server Management CD as
the unattended installation package. RPM accesses the Dell PowerEdge Installation and Server
Management CD to install all required Server Administrator components on selected remote systems.
Distributing the Express-Install subdirectory as the Express Unattended Installation Package
1 Distribute the /srvadmin/linux/supportscripts and the /srvadmin/linux/RPMS subdirectory of the
Dell PowerEdge Installation and Server Management CD to your target systems.
2 Configure your ISV software distribution software to execute sh srvadmin-install.sh -x
from the supportscripts subdirectory.
When the ISV software runs, it executes the RPMs to install Server Administrator on each remote system.
NOTE: If a sufficient version of the OpenIPMI driver is currently not installed on your remote systems, the
srvadmin-hapi RPM will fail to install and will display an error message stating that you must install/upgrade
the OpenIPMI driver. In such a case, any RPMs that depend on the srvadmin-hapi RPM will also fail to install.
In such cases, you should also distribute the OpenIPMI-related RPM files in the srvadmin/linux/custom/add-
openipmi-operating-system subdirectory that is applicable to your operating system. Copy the RPMs from the
applicable OpenIPMI subdirectory to the same directory on your target systems from where you distribute the
custom unattended installation package.
Creating and Distributing the Custom Unattended Installation Package
The Custom Install unattended installation option creates an unattended installation package in a
directory on your system's hard drive. To create an unattended installation package, use the copy
capability described in the section "Using the Shell Script to Perform the Custom Installation in
Interactive Mode" to create a custom directory with the RPM's you want to install. This directory will be
your unattended installation directory. Copy the RPMs in the applicable OpenIPMI subdirectory to the
same directory on your target systems where you distribute the custom unattended installation package.
Distributing Unattended Installation Packages
The custom unattended installation package is located in the directory you created in the preceding step 6
of the custom installation (see "Custom Install"). This directory contains all of the RPMs for the
managed system software components to distribute.
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.