Users Guide

Installing Managed System Software on Supported Linux Operating Systems 143
Additionally, during the installation of the srvadmin-hapi RPM using RPM, if
a required version of the OpenIPMI RPM is currently installed on the system,
but OpenIPMI driver modules have not been built and installed for the given
version of the OpenIPMI driver (because the kernel-source RPM is required but
is not currently installed,) the srvadmin-hapi RPM will fail to install and will
display an error message. The error message will state that you need to install
the kernel-source RPM and build the OpenIPMI driver. In such a case, any
RPMs that depend on the srvadmin-hapi RPM will also fail to install. In such
a situation, install the kernel-source RPM and build and install the
OpenIPMI driver modules, by performing the following additional steps:
1
On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 4) and SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server (version 9 and 10), the
kernel*-devel RPMs
provide the necessary source for building kernel modules. Install the
kernel-source RPM or kernel*-devel RPMs by running the following
command from where you have found or copied the RPM(s):
rpm –ihv kernel*.rpm
2
Navigate to the SYSMGMT/srvadmin/linux/supportscripts directory.
3 Run the srvadmin-openipmi.sh shell script as shown below. This will build
and install the OpenIPMI driver modules.
sh srvadmin-openipmi.sh install
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.