Users Guide

Contents 7
7 Installing Managed System Software
on Supported Linux Operating
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Software License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Server Administrator Device Drivers
. . . . . . . . . . 89
Dynamic Kernel Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Determining the Running Kernel
. . . . . . . . . . 91
Dynamic Kernel Support Prerequisites
. . . . . . 91
Using Dynamic Kernel Support After
Server Administrator Installation. . . . . . . . . . 91
Copying a Dynamically Built Device Driver
to Systems Running the Same Kernel
. . . . . . . 92
OpenIPMI Device Driver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Degradation of Functionality When the
Server Administrator Instrumentation
Service is Started
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Installing Managed System Software . . . . . . . . . . 94
Prerequisites for Installing Managed
System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Installing Managed System Software Using
Dell-Provided Media
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Determining the OpenManage Server
Administrator Architecture
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Dependent RPMs for Remote Enablement
. . . . . . . 102
Installing Dependent RPMs
. . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Post-Installation Configuration for
Remote Enablement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Creating Server Certificate for WSMAN
. . . . . . 105
Configuring CRL for the openwsman Client
. . . . 105
Running sfcb and openwsman
. . . . . . . . . . . 106