Dell – iDRAC, OpenManage, etc.

This keeps breaking, with weird unmet dependencies. apt-get-f install, etc seems to become sad. Completely removing and reinstalling seems easiest…

Getting errors like:

* Already started
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu4) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/srvadmin-hapi_8.4.0-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Fixed with:

apt-get -f purge srvadmin-isvc srvadmin-hapi srvadmin-ominst
apt-get -f purge srvadmin-storage srvadmin-omacore srvadmin-storage-cli apt-get -f install apt-get update apt-get install srvadmin-isvc srvadmin-hapi srvadmin-ominst
apt-get install srvadmin-storage srvadmin-omacore srvadmin-storage-cli service dataeng start omreport storage controller

I recently ran into an issue with a Dell iDRAC 7 Express card — it was not running the web interface, and so I was not able to connect and install the Enterprise license file.

Here’s how to fix it:

Workstation:~ $ ssh 192.168.0.193 -l root
root@192.168.0.193's password:
/admin1->
/admin1-> racadm

racadm>> getconfig -g cfgRacTuning
cfgRacTuneRemoteRacadmEnable=1
cfgRacTuneWebserverEnable=0
cfgRacTuneHttpPort=80
cfgRacTuneHttpsPort=443
cfgRacTuneTelnetPort=23
cfgRacTuneSshPort=22
cfgRacTuneLocalServerVideo=1
cfgRacTuneIpRangeEnable=0
cfgRacTuneIpRangeAddr=192.168.1.1
cfgRacTuneIpRangeMask=255.255.255.0
cfgRacTuneIpBlkEnable=1
cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailCount=3
cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailWindow=60
cfgRacTuneIpBlkPenaltyTime=600
cfgRacTuneTimezoneOffset=0
cfgRacTuneDaylightOffset=0
cfgRacTuneAsrEnable=1
cfgRacTunePlugintype=0
cfgRacTuneCtrlEConfigDisable=0
cfgRacTuneLocalConfigDisable=0

racadm>> config -g cfgRacTuning -o cfgRacTuneWebserverEnable 1
Object value modified successfully

racadm>> getconfig -g cfgRacTuning
cfgRacTuneRemoteRacadmEnable=1
cfgRacTuneWebserverEnable=1
cfgRacTuneHttpPort=80
cfgRacTuneHttpsPort=443
cfgRacTuneTelnetPort=23
cfgRacTuneSshPort=22
cfgRacTuneLocalServerVideo=1
cfgRacTuneIpRangeEnable=0
cfgRacTuneIpRangeAddr=192.168.1.1
cfgRacTuneIpRangeMask=255.255.255.0
cfgRacTuneIpBlkEnable=1
cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailCount=3
cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailWindow=60
cfgRacTuneIpBlkPenaltyTime=600
cfgRacTuneTimezoneOffset=0
cfgRacTuneDaylightOffset=0
cfgRacTuneAsrEnable=1
cfgRacTunePlugintype=0
cfgRacTuneCtrlEConfigDisable=0
cfgRacTuneLocalConfigDisable=0

Quick checksheet for making Dell OpenManage install on new Ubuntu’s (like Trusty)

As a user (not root, otherwise gpg complains):
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 1285491434D8786F
gpg -a --export 1285491434D8786F | sudo apt-key add -

Now, as root, add the repo to the apt-sources:
echo 'deb http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/ubuntu trusty openmanage' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux.dell.com.sources.list

Now install:
apt-get update
apt-get install srvadmin-base  srvadmin-storageservices srvadmin-omcommon

Start the service:
service dataeng start

 … and test:
/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/omreport chassis fans

 Other helpful information:

A useful Nagios plugin to use this: http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html

and the Dell page on this: http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/ubuntu/