On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Patrick Flaherty <pflaherty@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Joining the chorus of "Join the dell poweredge mailing list", but also
> throwing in there isn't much in the way of sync between
> bios/drivers/OMSA. updates. It's not uncommon to have versions of OMSA
> in the repo that say the firmware you just updated from the repo is
> out of date. Yes it sucks. I suggest you set up a copy of OME (open
> manage essentials) which makes managing/updating/reporting on your
>
Is OME is Windows only software?
The install guide PDF [0] doesn't mention installs on Linux.
And the FAQ [1] only mentions OMSA components (and monitoring Linux hosts)
and not OME on Linux.
Thanks for any insight.
[0]
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/19998614/download.aspx
[1]
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/3265.openmanage-essentials-faq.aspx
> bios/firmware rather easy. It's free other than the psychological
> trauma of having SNMP enabled on all your servers.
>
No biggie.
I have SNMP enabled on all my production servers for monitoring purposes.
Firewall rules prohibit SNMP access except when coming from the monitoring
system. :)
>
> Patrick
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:01 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > SilverTip257 wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:32 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 2/6/2013 12:50 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote:
> >>> > Is the dell hardware repo serving old versions of firmware/drivers?
> >>>
> >>> Ask Dell. its their repo.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Yep, ask Dell.
> >
> > I *think* the last time I d/l and burned a DVD of their stuff, a few
> > months ago, it was still CentOS 5.x - 6, maybe?
> >
> > mark
> >
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