Installing management
station software on supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESXi Server
Only RAC tools and BMU are supported on the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware
ESXi Server operating systems.
On systems
running Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, DVDs are auto-mounted
with the -noexec mount option. This option does not allow you
to run any executable from the DVD. You must mount the DVD-ROM manually
and then run the executables.
To install BMU, navigate to the
SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/bmc directory and install the BMU RPM specific to the operating system
as follows:
- For systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, type rpm -ivh osabmcutil*-RHEL-*.rpmrpm -ivh osabmcutil*-RHEL-*.rpm
- For systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, type rpm -ivh osabmcutil*-SUSE-*.rpmrpm -ivh osabmcutil*-SUSE-*.rpm
To install the latest version of RAC Tools:
- Uninstall the existing IPMI tool:
- Query the existing IPMI tool: rpm -qa | grep
ipmitoolrpm -qa | grep
ipmitool
If the IPMI tool is already installed,
the query returns ipmitool-x.x.xx-x.x.xxipmitool-x.x.xx-x.x.xx.
- To uninstall the IPMI tool:
- On systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and
VMware ESXi Server, type rpm -e ipmitool-x.x.xx-x.x.xxrpm -e ipmitool-x.x.xx-x.x.xx
- On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, type rpm –e ipmitoolrpm –e ipmitool
- On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, type rpm –e OpenIPMI-toolsrpm –e OpenIPMI-tools
NOTE: The settings
made by the existing IPMITOOL is retained.
- Browse to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/rac/<OS> directory and then type rpm -ivh *.rpmrpm -ivh *.rpm