I was able to do the "32-bit OMSA on a 64-bit system" workaround on two
PE1850s and one PE2950, all running CentOS 5.5 64-bit. Everything seems
to be running fine on all three servers.

The 1850s each have a DRAC4/I, so the DRAC4 probe on startup finds them
and is happy. But the 2950 running has a DRAC5, not a DRAC4, yet the
startup script still seems to be looking for a DRAC4:

DRAC4 probe: DRAC4 pci device not found                    [FAILED]
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting dell_rbu:                                         [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi driver: Already started                      [  OK  ]
Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
Starting dsm_sa_datamgrd:                                  [  OK  ]
Starting dsm_sa_eventmgrd:                                 [  OK  ]
Starting DSM SA Shared Services:                           [  OK  ]

Starting DSM SA Connection Service:                        [  OK  ]

The good news is that OMSA is finding the DRAC5 just fine - I can see it
when I log in to the OMSA web interface.

Any way to shut off the DRAC4 probe on a system that doesn't have a
DRAC4? Or am I stuck with the (admittedly benign) FAILED message?

Thanks,

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Jenkins
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 6:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: How to force install of 32-bit OMSA 6.3?

Well, I figured out ONE way to do it....

I edited /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-omsa-repository.repo. Under:

[dell-omsa-indep]

I commented out:

#mirrorlist=http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osnam
e=el$releasever&basearch=$basearch&native=1&dellsyspluginver=$dellsysidp
luginver

and then hard-coded the $basearch variable like this:

mirrorlist=http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osname
=el$releasever&basearch=i386&native=1&dellsyspluginver=$dellsysidpluginv
er

Then I did the same in:

[dell-omsa-specific]

Commenting out:

#mirrorlist=http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osnam
e=el$releasever&basearch=$basearch&native=1
&sys_dev_id=$sys_dev_id&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver

And replacing with:

#mirrorlist=http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osnam
e=el$releasever&basearch=i386&native=1
&sys_dev_id=$sys_dev_id&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver

32-bit version of OMSA 6.3 now running a PE 1850 running CentOS 5.5
x84_64! Now I can run check_openmanage through Nagios... which is all I
really wanted anyway. ;)

If there's a better way I should have done this, please let me know.

SteveJ


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