Dell OMSA 6.1.0 on ESX 4.0 Classic

[Optic_Nerve]

Hi,

According to this thread, people have successfully installed OMSA 6.1.0 on ESX 4.0 Classic.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/211864

I have no idea how they are doing it, because it certainly doesn't work for me on a freshly formatted Dell 2950 with ESX 4.0 Classic.

I have installed OpenManage 5.5 probably 500 times over the years (using -b -w -r -s) and never had any trouble. This is the first time I have attempted OMSA 6.1.0 on ESX 4.0 Classic.

These are the steps I have been using:

1. Install ESX 4.0 Classic from scratch on a Dell 2950 (which is running the latest firmware for everything)

2. Install latest patches to ESX 4.0 using VUM.

3. Copy OM_6.1.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz to the host (using FTP).

4. Expand using "tar -zxvf OM_6.1.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz"

5. Change to the linux/supportscripts directory and run "./srvadmin-install -x"

This is the output that I get after attempting to install it:

# ./srvadmin-install.sh -x

Server Administrator version 6.1.0-426 is currently installed.

Installed components are:

- srvadmin-omilcore-6.1.0-426

- srvadmin-hapi-6.1.0-426

- srvadmin-ipmi-6.1.0-426.DUP

Upgrading Server Administrator to 6.1.0-648

warning: srvadmin-hapi-6.1.0-648.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 23b66a9d

Preparing... ###########################################

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49620: line 355: /tmp/dellupdatepackage-hapi-12342-24438/omil/prereqcheck/Funcs.sh: No such file or directory

error: %pre(srvadmin-omilcore-6.1.0-648.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-omilcore-6.1.0-648

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49620: line 6: /tmp/dellupdatepackage-hapi-12342-24438/omil/prereqcheck/Funcs.sh: No such file or directory

error: %pre(srvadmin-hapi-6.1.0-648.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-hapi-6.1.0-648

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49620: line 2: /tmp/dellupdatepackage-hapi-12342-24438/funcs/srvadmin-omilcore.sh: No such file or directory

error: %preun(srvadmin-omilcore-6.1.0-426.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

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As you can see, the installer claims that it has found some existing components of OMSA (these must ship with ESX 4.0 Classic?) and then it fails. I can reproduce this on 20 Dell 2950s all of them cleanly formatted with ESX 4.0.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

David

[mrman5919]

Need to run the following:

#
esxcfg-firewall –o 1311,tcp,in,OpenManageRequest

[demean0r]

Right. I'm used to following the install guide. Shold have looked there. Thanks.

[GeneNZ]

Hi,

I just upgraded to build 175625 and am having no issues with openmanage 6.1 across 2 servers so far. I have a number of these servers to upgrade today. If I encounter any issues, I'll let you know.

Based on the spec and firmware versions of your servers, I can tell you I have an identical setup, except we have the Perc 6/i (with latest firmware). Hope this helps you.

Gene

Edit: I've just completed upgrading 5 x 2950's, all identical hardware, with no issues.

[jasoncllsystems]

Hi David,

PERC 6/i 6

- Firmware version 2.0-0013

- Driver version 00.00.03.21.11vmw

BIOS version 2.6.1

BMC version 1.77

DRAC 1.14

Regards,

Jas aka Superman

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http://www.malaysiavm.com

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[RobVM]

Tried this command:

1. rpm -e --noscripts `rpm -qa|grep srvadmin`

This command mostly worked for me, except it listed three RPMs to uninstall, and I got a dependecy error when trying to remove the first one. So I had to remove each one seperately starting with the last one, srvadmin-hapi-5.3.0-312. After removing the three RPMs the install proceeded without errors. Thanks for the tip!

[deobfuscate]

I wrote up a blog post on this as I encountered the same issue on one of two hosts.