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  • Blog Post: Monitoring Ubuntu Servers with OpenManage Essentials

    Recently, in response to a user question in the TechCenter forum , Dell Linux Engineering's on-site field engineer from Canonical, Kent Baxley, wrote detailed instructions on how to use OpenManage Essentials to begin monitoring PowerEdge systems running Ubuntu Server. The steps he outlines allow...
  • Blog Post: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 on Dell PowerEdge servers (Features and Native drivers)

    Red Hat has recently announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 (RHEL 5.9) Operating System. RHEL 5.9 includes the support for new hardware, driver updates and bug fixes. For detailed information, please refer to RHEL 5.9 release notes . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 has been validated...
  • Blog Post: Dell's Participation in Open Source India(OSI) Days 2012 Conference

    Posted on behalf of Gireesha US from Dell Linux Engineering team. OSI (Open Source India) Days - The Asia's Mega Open Source Convention ( www.osidays.com ) was being organized for the 9 th time in India during October 12 to 14 at the NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore. It was targeted at nurturing...
  • Blog Post: Manage Dell Linux repositories with RHN Satellite, Spacewalk & SUSE Manager

    If you use Dell’s Linux repositories from http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware (and we know many of you do), you’ve had the option of managing these repositories with Red Hat’s Network Satellite , Spacewalk or SUSE Manager by using the dell-satellite-sync tool to import the yum repositories...
  • Blog Post: Ubuntu Server 12.10 released by Canonical

    Today Canonical released Ubuntu Server 12.10, a.k.a. Quantal Quetzal. Some of the new features in Ubuntu 12.10 include a rebase to the 3.5.5 kernel, inclusion of the latest OpenStack release (“Folsom”) and support for UEFI Secure Boot. For details on all features, please refer to the Release...
  • Blog Post: Red Hat Enterprise virtualization (RHEV 3.0) works on Dell PowerEdge servers

    Posted on behalf of Gireesha US from Dell Linux Engineering team Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 is supported on shipping PowerEdge 11th generation and 12th generation servers (2-socket and 4-socket servers). It has been validated and certified on the list of supported Dell PowerEdge...
  • Blog Post: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 7.1 for Ubuntu

    The OpenManage Server Administrator 7.1 for Ubuntu community-supported release is now available for download. For details about this release, please consult the release notes for the official release of OMSA 7.1: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/7.1/en/README/txt/readme_sa.txt...
  • Blog Post: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 7.0 for Ubuntu

    OpenManage Server Administrator 7.0 for Ubuntu is now available for download. This is a major new release, as OMSA 7.0 is designed with PowerEdge 12G servers and iDRAC 7 in mind. We've tested OMSA 7.0 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is great, since Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS introduces support for Dell...
  • Blog Post: IPMI-KCS Interrupt Support on 12G Servers on Linux OSes

    Posted on behalf of Srinivas Gowda from Dell Linux Engineering Team Dell recently announced 12 th Generation PowerEdge Servers . It supports host of new features and Hardware. One such hardware feature is to use KCS interrupts for IPMI communication from Linux OS to Baseboard Management Controller...
  • Blog Post: Software and Firmware repositories on http://linux.dell.com – now 10x faster!

    For the past few months, the Dell Linux Engineering team has been working to upgrade the infrastructure that hosts our software and firmware repositories at linux.dell.com and our open source depot at opensource.dell.com . Not only did we procure new servers with more powerful processors and increased...
  • Blog Post: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 6.5 for Ubuntu

    OpenManage Server Administrator is now updated to 6.5 and is available for download. You can check out what is new in OMSA 6.5 by going to the documentation page. For this release, we added Release.gpg to the repository, so that you can use apt-key to authenticate packages. For directions on...
  • Blog Post: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 6.4 for Ubuntu

    The following is posted on behalf of Prudhvi Tella, an engineer on the Linux OS Engineering team. The Linux OS Engineering team is pleased to announce the second release of OpenManage for Ubuntu. OpenManage 6.4 64-bit version is now available for download. However, a 32-bit version will also be released...
  • Blog Post: Behind the scenes: Dell OpenManage build process and OpenSUSE Build Service

    Starting with the Dell OpenManage 6.2 release in Dec 2009, Dell has adopted the OpenSUSE Build Service (OBS) to build our OpenManage stack. Dell has set up an internal, private instance of OBS to build all of our Dell OpenManage RPMs. The build service provides a very elegant solution to the problem...
  • Blog Post: Dell OpenManage 6.2 for Linux distribution-specific RPM packaging

    One of the new features in Dell OpenManage (OM) version 6.2 is that we have separate bundles compiled specifically for each of our supported Tier 1 Linux OS distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). This is exposed through separate tarballs posted for each...
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