Re: DELL PowerEdge-like ESM and OMSA for Debian?
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Thank you. I am new to DELL server hardware and you let me see I was wrong
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I thought you had to install first ESM and that OMSA was just a web
based interface to it. That is why I hadn't sought to get to OMSA yet
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Now, what I am actually trying to do is have a way to control PE's
super intense/noisy fans
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I have searched around quite a bit and AFAIK Dell hasn't made those
fans' microcontrollers accessible
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Do you know how to -safely- control them?
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lbrtchx
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Jeremy T. Bouse
<jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net> wrote:
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> Did ya happen to try your friend Google? A simple search for "Dell
> Debian OMSA" garnered a bounty of replies and among the gems I was able
> to locate
> http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/debian/omsa5.1/ in
> about 5 minutes. It's only 32-bit, but then Dell doesn't even have a
> 64-bit version for RedHat yet to my knowledge.
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> Albretch Mueller wrote:
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>> DELL supports only RedHat and Suse (and Windows ...) and I was able
>> to update my BIOS basically from a Debian-based live CD using the
>> steps provided here:
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>> http://www.ducea.com/2007/08/27/dell-bios-firmware-updates-on-debian/
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>> Now I would to have the kind of management that ESM and OMSA allows,
>> but the installer is complainign about missing rpm packages
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>> I know I can use alien to convert rpm to deb packages and I did seach
>> for such packages even though I couldn't find them, I still think
>> there might be something like that in Debian
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>> If there isn't. Is there such thing as a mapping of the functionality
>> of rpm and deb packages?
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>> I think I will need to install
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>> rpm, pciutils, libc, libdl, libm. libc. libpthread, /bin/sh,
>> srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-ipmi, srvadmin-hapi
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>> Of course I' wish I would use debian packages ...
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>> Any suggestions?
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>> Thank you
>> lbrtchx
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