Dell OMSA 6.1.0 on ESX 4.0 Classic

Hi,

According to this thread, people have successfully installed OMSA 6.1.0 on ESX 4.0 Classic.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/211864

I have no idea how they are doing it, because it certainly doesn't work for me on a freshly formatted Dell 2950 with ESX 4.0 Classic.

I have installed OpenManage 5.5 probably 500 times over the years (using -b -w -r -s) and never had any trouble.  This is the first time I have attempted OMSA 6.1.0 on ESX 4.0 Classic.

These are the steps I have been using:

1. Install ESX 4.0 Classic from scratch on a Dell 2950 (which is running the latest firmware for everything)

2. Install latest patches to ESX 4.0 using VUM.

3. Copy OM_6.1.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz to the host (using FTP).

4. Expand using "tar -zxvf OM_6.1.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz"

5. Change to the linux/supportscripts directory and run "./srvadmin-install -x"

This is the output that I get after attempting to install it:

# ./srvadmin-install.sh -x

  Server Administrator version 6.1.0-426 is currently installed.

  Installed components are:

   - srvadmin-omilcore-6.1.0-426

   - srvadmin-hapi-6.1.0-426

   - srvadmin-ipmi-6.1.0-426.DUP

  Upgrading Server Administrator to 6.1.0-648

warning: srvadmin-hapi-6.1.0-648.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 23b66a9d

Preparing...                ###########################################

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49620: line 355: /tmp/dellupdatepackage-hapi-12342-24438/omil/prereqcheck/Funcs.sh: No such file or directory

error: %pre(srvadmin-omilcore-6.1.0-648.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-omilcore-6.1.0-648

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49620: line 6: /tmp/dellupdatepackage-hapi-12342-24438/omil/prereqcheck/Funcs.sh: No such file or directory

error: %pre(srvadmin-hapi-6.1.0-648.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-hapi-6.1.0-648

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49620: line 2: /tmp/dellupdatepackage-hapi-12342-24438/funcs/srvadmin-omilcore.sh: No such file or directory

error: %preun(srvadmin-omilcore-6.1.0-426.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

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As you can see, the installer claims that it has found some existing components of OMSA (these must ship with ESX 4.0 Classic?) and then it fails.  I can reproduce this on 20 Dell 2950s all of them cleanly formatted with ESX 4.0.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

David