Users Guide

146 Installing Managed System Software on Supported Linux Operating Systems
Re-attempt to install the srvadmin-hapi RPM and any RPMs that failed to
install as they depend on the srvadmin-hapi RPM.
Degradation of Functionality When Server Administrator Instrumentation Service
is Started
After Server Administrator is installed, the Server Administrator
Instrumentation Service will do 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 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
will degrade itself so that it does not provide any of its IPMI-based
information or functionality. Primarily, this means that it will not provide any
probe data (for example, fans, temperatures, and voltage probe data).
If you know or suspect that the OpenIPMI device driver on the system is not
appropriate, you can run the srvadmin-openipmi.sh
shell script on the
Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD to install an
appropriate version by performing the following steps:
1
Navigate to the SYSMGMT/srvadmin/linux/supportscripts .
2 Run the srvadmin-openipmi.sh shell script as shown below.
sh srvadmin-openipmi.sh install