Dell OM 6.2 Linux Repository

What is this?

This is the officially supported yum repository for Open Manage.

NEW in OM 6.2: firmware-tools support. See the instructions below for details

This repository contains OMSA, drivers, BIOS, and firmware.
Please see the detailed description in the Dell OMSA Linux wiki page

How to set up

Complete this step before any of the steps below. 
wget -q -O - bootstrap.cgi | bash

Installing OpenManage Server Administrator

NOTE: OMSA will not install on unsupported systems. If you receive a message at install that the system is not supported, it is likely that your system is not supported, and the install will fail. This is most common on SC-class systems, as OMSA is completely unsupported on these systems.

  • yum 
    yum install srvadmin-all
    • NOTE: The version of yum distributed on CentOS 3 by default is too old (yum 2.0.8). You will need to upgrade to a yum 2.4.x version in order to use these repositories. The older version of yum does not support plugins or mirrorlists, which are required for these repos to work.

  • up2date 
    up2date -i srvadmin-all

  • rug 
    rug install srvadmin-base
rug install srvadmin-webserver
rug install srvadmin-storageservices
    NOTE: If you want to install srvadmin-all, you have to have 'setserial' installed. I dont have the details on this, but it doesnt appear that setserial is installed by default.

  • zypper 
    zypper install srvadmin-all

    • Installing firmware-tools to manage BIOS and firmware updates

  • yum 
    yum install dell_ft_install
yum install $(bootstrap_firmware)

  • up2date 
    up2date -i dell_ft_install
up2date --solvedeps=$(bootstrap_firmware -u)

  • rug 
    rug install dell_ft_install
rug install $( bootstrap_firmware | xargs -n1 -r rug --terse wp | cut -d'|' -f3 | grep -v "No matches" | sort | uniq )

  • zypper 
    zypper install dell_ft_install
zypper install $(bootstrap_firmware)

    • Managing BIOS and firmware updates

  • Inventory firmware version levels 
    inventory_firmware

  • Compare versions installed to those available 
    update_firmware

  • Install any applicable updates 
    update_firmware --yes

  • Start interactive GUI 
    inventory_firmware_gui

    • Support

    A good place for support for this repository is the linux-poweredge mailing list.