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Xenserver 5.0-5.5 & Dell OpenManage

Does anyone know a workaround to be able to successfully install Dell's OpenManage Server Administrator on Citrix XenServer? Dell itself doesn't support XenServer unless its their own build of it. I have tried OMSA 5.4, 6.1, 6.2. It will not install because the operating system is unknown. I have install each RPM one at a time and they have installed but they still do not function

Just so you can see the iptables and snmp...


# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 161 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 162 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1311 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 694 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT

# Map users to community strings
#       sec.name        source          community
com2sec TMC_U_ReadOnly  default         TMCDEV_READ
com2sec TMC_U_ReadWrite default         TMCDEV_WRITE

# Map users to groups
#       groupName       securityModel   securityName
group   TMC_G_ReadOnly  any             TMC_U_ReadOnly
group   TMC_G_ReadWrite         any             TMC_U_ReadWrite

# create view
#       name           incl/excl     subtree         mask(optional)
view    all            included      .1

# grant rights to the above views
#       group           context sec.model sec.level prefix read   write  notif
access  TMC_G_ReadOnly  ""      any     noauth  exact   all     none    none
access  TMC_G_ReadWrite ""      any     noauth  exact   all     all     none

# Set trap destination
trapsink (FQDN.SERVER.NAME) TMC_MANAGEMENT

# Allow localhost access
rocommunity     TMCDEV_READ             127.0.0.1
rwcommunity     TMCDEV_WRITE    127.0.0.1

# Allow remote hosts access
rocommunity     TMCDEV_READ             (FQDN.SERVER.NAME)
rwcommunity     TMCDEV_WRITE   (FQDN.SERVER.NAME)

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Hi,

It is not possible to run OMSA over a Virtualized guest!!!. OMSA is designed to access the server hardware through the IPMI interface which is hidden from a virtualized guest. So it is not possible to run OMSA over any virtualization solution..

Cheers,
K.
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Not the guest. The host XenServer Linux OS.
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> Not the guest. The host XenServer Linux OS.

Thanks god:) I was afraid that I'd be explaining what is the difference between the real hardware and emulated hardware : )


Cheers,
K.
I have installed omsa inside 5.5 dom0.

iirc the dell install package looks at /etc/redhat-release for a valid string. Changing it to a redhat string or hack the xenserver string into setup.sh near line 200 allowed the process to complete without issue.

Essentially, its the same process as installing omsa in centos
When I did:
The Dell Version has all IPMI drivers are built in. Here's an article on how do you install it on XenServer 5.5 (though you say you're running 5.0.5)

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX116325

I got this error when I tried the install:
Unsupported system (sysid=028C)
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