Deployment Guide

Installing management station software

on supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux,

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and

VMware ESX/ESXi Server

Only RAC tools and BMU are supported on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,

and VMware ESX/ESXi Server operating systems.

On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system, DVDs are auto-mounted with the -

noexec mount option. This option does not allow you to run any executable from the DVD. You must

mount the DVD-ROM manually and then run the executables.

To install BMU, navigate to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/bmc directory and install the BMU

RPM specific to the operating system as follows:

• For systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, type rpm -ivh osabmcutil*-RHEL-*.rpm

• For systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, type rpm -ivh osabmcutil*-SUSE-*.rpm

To install the latest version of RAC Tools:

1. Uninstall the existing IPMI tool:

a. Query the existing IPMI tool: rpm -qa | grep ipmitool

If the IPMI tool is already installed, the query returns ipmitool-x.x.xx-x.x.xx.

b. To uninstall the IPMI tool:

• On systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and VMware ESX Server, type rpm -e

ipmitool-x.x.xx-x.x.xx

• On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, type rpm –e OpenIPMI-tools

• On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, type rpm –e ipmitool

NOTE: The settings made by the existing IPMITOOL is retained.

2. Browse to the SYSMGMT/ManagementStation/linux/rac/<OS> directory and then type rpm -ivh

*.rpm