Users Guide

Installing Managed System Software on Supported Linux Operating Systems 133
This requirement is checked and enforced by Server Administrator at three
instances. Two of the instances are during installation, while the third is a
run-time step. The instances are:
• During custom installation of Server Administrator using the
srvadmin-install.sh shell script.
• During installation of Server Administrator using RPM.
• At run-time when the Server Administrator Instrumentation Service is
started.
NOTE: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (version 10) contains the required version of
IPMI module in the default kernel itself. You do not need to install the IPMI RPM.
Blocking During Custom Installation of Server Administrator Using the
srvadmin-install.sh Shell Script
During custom installation of Server Administrator using the srvadmin-
install.sh
shell scri pt, the script automatically calls another shell script called
srvadmin-openipmi.sh, to ensure that a sufficient version of the OpenIPMI
device driver (for example, a version that is equal to or greater than the
minimum version of the OpenIPMI device driver that is required by the
Server Administrator Instrumentation Service) is currently installed on the
system. If a sufficient version is not found, the srvadmin-install.sh
shell sc ript
calls the srvadmin-openipmi.sh
shell script again to attempt to install a
sufficient version. If the attempt fails for any reason, an appropriate error
message is displayed with instructions describing how to resolve the error. You
must resolve errors, if any, before re-running the srvadmin-install.sh
shell
script to install Server Administrator.
Blocking During Installation of Server Administrator Using RPM
To assist in the correct order of RPM installation, the srvadmin-hapi RPM is
dependent on one of the srvadmin-ipmi RPMs. Each srvadmin-ipmi RPM is
distribution-specific and depends on a distribution-specific OpenIPMI RPM.
The srvadmin-hapi RPM will not install unless the RPM dependencies are met.