Dell OMSA Proxmox R610

Just purchased a new R610 for running Proxmox 2.0RC1, but I needed a way to get OpenManage on there.

I followed a sara.nl link page to get an old version of OMSA installed. It worked great minus the small problem of not having a storage controller available. Apparently the new PERC6i controller requires OMSA 6.3 or higher. Well, I may as well go with 6.5. Fortunately for me, Dell finally released both Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian 6 binaries AND install instructions. I had to alter them a little bit for my prox environment, so here goes:

aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade
reboot
echo 'deb http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/latest /' | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux.dell.com.sources.list
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key E74433E25E3D7775
gpg -a --export E74433E25E3D7775 | apt-key add -
apt-get update --allow-unauthenticated
apt-get install srvadmin-all
service dataeng start
service dsm_om_connsvc start
To get this to auto start on reboot: update-rc.d dsm_om_connsvc defaults
https://ipofserver:1311

Login as root and your root password.

If you receive an error with apt-get update –allow-unauthenticated, all I did was cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux.dell.com.sources.list and then re-run the command.

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  1. Hi,

    I’ve used your tuto,it’s seems to be good, but i’ve gote :


    apt-get install srvadmin-all
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    srvadmin-all : Depends: srvadmin-base (>= 7.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: srvadmin-storageservices (>= 7.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: srvadmin-webserver (>= 7.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: srvadmin-rac4 (>= 7.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: srvadmin-rac5 (>= 7.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: srvadmin-idrac (>= 7.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: srvadmin-idrac7 (>= 7.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

    So i’ve installed srvadmin-webserv and srvadmin-base.

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