Users Guide

Installing Management Station Software 95
Upgrading Management Station Software
To upgrade the BMC Management Utility onto a management station,
perform the following steps:
1
Log on as root to the system on which you want to upgrade the
management station features.
2 If necessary, mount the Dell Systems Management Tools and
Documentation
DVD to a desired location using the mount command or
a similar command.
3 Navigate to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/bmc directory
and upgrade the BMC software using the rpm commands specific to the
operating system:
• For systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, use
osabmcutil*-
RHEL-*.rpm,
for example, rpm -Uvh osabmcutil*-RHEL-
*.rpm
.
• For systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, use
osabmcutil*-SUSE-*.rpm, for example, rpm -Uvh
osabmcutil*-SUSE-*.rpm.
• To upgrade the ipmitool BMC Management Utility, navigate to the
operating system sub-directory under
SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/bmc/ipmitool corresponding
to your operating system and execute the command
rpm -Uvh
*.rpm .
To upgrade the DRAC Tools feature, perform the following steps:
1
Log on as root to the system on which you want to upgrade the
management station features.
2 If necessary, mount the DVD to a desired location using the mount
command or a similar command.
3 Navigate to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/rac directory and
upgrade the RAC software using the
rpm -Uvh *.rpm command.