Installation manual

72 Installing Managed System Software on Supported Linux and VMware ESX
If the Server Administrator drivers are available with the operating system,
Server Administrator uses those versions of the drivers. If the Server
Administrator drivers are not available with the operating system, Server
Administrator uses its Dynamic Kernel Support (DKS) feature to build the
drivers when needed.
Dynamic Kernel Support
Server Administrator includes DKS, a feature that Server Administrator uses
to build its device drivers automatically for a running kernel if needed.
If you see the following message during Server Administrator Device Drivers
startup, then Server Administrator has attempted to use the DKS feature,
but was unable to use the feature because certain prerequisites were not met:
Building <driver> using DKS... [FAILED]
where <driver> is dcdbas or dell_rbu
NOTE: Server Administrator logs messages to the /var/log/messages log file.
To use DKS, identify which kernel is running on the managed system, and
check the DKS prerequisites.
Determining the Running Kernel
1 Log in as root .
2 Type the following command at a console:
uname -r
3
Press <Enter>.
The system displays a message identifying the running kernel.
Dynamic Kernel Support Prerequisites
For managed system software to use DKS, the following dependencies must
be met before starting Server Administrator.
• The running kernel must have loadable module support enabled.
• The source for building kernel modules for the running kernel must be
available from
/lib/modules/`uname –r`/build . On systems running SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server, the
kernel-source RPM provides the necessary