Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 07-20-2009 Installation Manual page 64

Dell Update Package bundles: Let you update and configure hardware and system settings on
Dell PowerEdge servers. For more information, see
the Novell ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management Administration
Dell inventory: Lets you display inventory information specific to Dell PowerEdge servers.
After discovering the hardware information about your Dell PowerEdge servers, you can use
Dell Update Packages to update them, if necessary. For more information, see
Software
Dell reports: Let you run reports specific to Dell PowerEdge servers to find devices that do not
have valid Dell Update Packages installed or to show devices with Dell applications installed
(per device or per device model). For more information, see
ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management Administration
Dell provides the updated OpenIPMI driver as well as the Dynamic Kernel Module Support
(DKMS) package to assist in compiling and installing the driver.
OpenIPMI is an open-source project to develop an Intelligent Platform Management Interface
manager implementation for servers. Dell servers depend on OpenIPMI to collect low-level system
information about the Backplane device, the Baseboard Management Controller, and so forth.
To install OpenIPMI and DKMS:
1 On a "golden client" system that has an identical setup to your managed Dell PowerEdge
servers, install the kernel source and a development environment (gcc, make, and glibc-devel.).
A "golden client" system is a Dell PowerEdge server you want to configure manually and then
use ZENworks Linux Management to configure a larger number of PowerEdge servers in your
ZENworks system the same way. The "golden client" system must have the same operating
system installed as the servers that you intend to manage. You perform these configuration
steps on one representative device and then use ZENworks Linux Management to automate the
installation of the other servers. The purpose of the "golden client" system is to eliminate the
need to install the kernel source and the development environment on every managed
PowerEdge server in your ZENworks system.
The kernel source and development environment (gcc, make, and glibc-devel) can be found on
the media that you used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Use the package management software specific to your Linux operating system to install the
necessary build tools. On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, for example, you use YaST to install
the kernel source and development environment.
2 Download DKMS and the latest OpenIPMI driver for your specific operating system from the
Dell Linux Community Web
the appropriate tarball for your server's operating system.
3 Install the DKMS and the latest OpenIPMI packages on your "golden client" system using the
provided install shell script (
file (named
4 Use the
to your "golden client" system setup. Detailed instructions are included in the DKMS man page
(
man dkms
For example,
dkms mkrpm -m openipmi -v version_number.os
64 Novell ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management Installation Guide
Inventory" in the Novell ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management Administration
(http://linux.dell.com/files/openipmi/). Both files are included in
install.sh
).
README
parameter to DKMS to build the RPM package of the OpenIPMI driver tailored
mkrpm
).
"Using Dell Update Package
Guide.
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Guide.
). Detailed instructions are included in the Readme
Bundles" in
"Hardware and
Guide.
Reports" in the Novell