Installing Dell Open Manage (OMSA) on RedHat

This is specifically for RHEL5, but it should work similarly on older RHEL and CentOS.

First install the repo: wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.5/bootstrap.cgi | bash

Then you may get an error from yum about "--disableplugin". If so, clean the repos manually: yum clean all

Then install compat-libstdc++. I found it in on the ISO in the Server directory: rpm -i compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm

Now install the Open Manage software: yum install srvadmin-all

Then start up the services: srvadmin-services.sh start

Now test the services: omreport chassis

Simple.