Appendix A Package Management For Awms; Yum For Awms - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

Yum for AWMS

This appendix describes the Yum packaging management system. Dell recommends running Yum to ensure your
packages are up to date, and so that your AWMS is as secure as possible if you are running RHEL 5 or CentOS 5.
Yum is an automated package management system that verifies AWMS is running the most recently released
RPMs and upgrades any out-of-date packages. Yum accesses the Internet, and downloads and installs new
versions of any installed RPMs. It is important to keep the AWMS RPMs as current as possible to close any
known security holes in the OS as quickly as possible.
To run Yum on a CentOS 5 machine follow the instructions below:
1. Before running Yum for the first time, you need to install the GPG key. The GPG key is used to validate the
authenticity of all packages downloaded by Yum.
2. To install the GPG key, type
manually installed before Yum is run for the first time the user will be prompted to install and accept a new
key.
3. To run Yum manually, log in to the AWMS console and type
to be downloading slowly, press
4. To configure Yum to run nightly, type
press
Enter
5. To configure yum-cron to start at system startup, type
6. In some instances, running Yum may cause a problem with AWMS. If that happens, a good first step is to use
SSH to go into the AWMS server as root, and issue the following command:
# root; make
If that does not resolve the issue, please contact Dell support for further assistance.
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rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
Ctrl+C
. Note that yum-cron will default to off if the machine is restarted.
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Package Management for AWMS
yum update
to connect to a new mirror.
and press
yum install yum-cron
chkconfig yum-cron on
. If the key was not
and press . If the packages seem
Enter
. Then type
Enter service yum start
and press .
Enter
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