Install Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................. 5
OMSA Customer Survey....................................................................................................................................................5
What’s new in this release.................................................................................................................................................5
Software Availability......................................................................................................................................................6
Systems Management Software......................................................................................................................................6
Server Administrator Components On A Managed System................................................................................ 6
Security Features................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Other Documents You Might Need................................................................................................................................. 8
Chapter 2: Preinstallation Setup.................................................................................................. 10
Installation Requirements.................................................................................................................................................10
Supported Operating Systems And Web Browsers.............................................................................................10
System Requirements................................................................................................................................................. 10
Managed System Requirements................................................................................................................................11
Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards....................................................................................... 11
Configuring SNMP Agents............................................................................................................................................... 11
Remote Enablement Requirements............................................................................................................................... 12
Dependent RPMs For Remote Enablement........................................................................................................... 12
Post Installation Configuration For Remote Enablement................................................................................... 13
Winbind configuration for openwsman and sfcb for Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems.......... 14
Work around for the libssl issue.............................................................................................................................. 15
Winbind configuration for openwsman and sfcb for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system... 15
Chapter 3: Installing Managed System Software On Supported Linux and VMware ESXi
operating systems.................................................................................................................... 16
Software License Agreement.......................................................................................................................................... 17
RPM for individual components......................................................................................................................................17
OpenIPMI Device Driver.................................................................................................................................................. 20
Degradation Of Functionality When The Server Administrator Instrumentation Service Is Started....... 21
Installing Managed System Software............................................................................................................................21
Prerequisites For Installing Managed System Software..................................................................................... 21
Installing Managed System software using the provided media......................................................................22
Server Administrator Custom Installation Utility................................................................................................. 25
Managed System Software Installation Using Third-Party Deployment Software..................................... 26
Uninstalling Managed System Software...................................................................................................................... 27
Uninstalling Managed System Software Using The Uninstall Script...............................................................27
Uninstalling Managed System Software Using The RPM Command..............................................................28
Chapter 4: Installing Systems Management Software On VMware ESXi.......................................29
Using the vSphere CLI..................................................................................................................................................... 29
Using the VMware vSphere Management Assistant vMA...................................................................................... 30
Using the VMware Update Manager (VUM)..............................................................................................................30
Installing OpenManage Server Administrator using vSphere Lifecycle Manager in vSphere Client..............31
Using The Power CLI........................................................................................................................................................ 31
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