Users Guide

144 Installing Managed System Software on Supported Linux Operating Systems
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
If you are unsure as to whether or not the OpenIPMI device driver on the
system is sufficient, run the srvadmin-openipmi.sh status command instead.
Rather than attempting to install or upgrade the OpenIPMI device driver, if
necessary, which is what the srvadmin-openipmi.sh install command does, the
srvadmin-openipmi.sh status command displays information that informs you
whether or not the OpenIPMI device driver on the system is sufficient or not.
After running the srvadmin-openipmi.sh status command, you can then decide
whether or not you need and want to run the srvadmin-openipmi.sh install
command.
Installing and Upgrading Managed System Software
This section explains how to install and upgrade managed system software
using the following installation options:
• Use the srvadmin-install.sh shell script for Express installs or Custom
installs, in either interactive or unattended mode
NOTE: If you have downloaded the Managed System software installer (available
as a .tar.gz file) from the Dell Support site at support.dell.com, the srvadmin-
install.sh shell script is present as setup.sh in the root directory.
• Use RPM commands for Custom installs, in either interactive or
unattended mode