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Dell OMSA OME software for Linux is not fun...

First off.. I don't understand why each model needs it's own repo.. but fine...
Secondly.. why do they have to use some ambiguous HEX representation of the model (i.e 0x1278)
Why does the RPM packaging completely suck


Mkay.. now that I'm done ranting... I have had some ugly cleanups to do with their stuff
NOTE: in this example my system is actually subscribed to a Satellite channel with the Dell software, hence why I am removing the repo file.

rpm -qa | egrep 'dell|srvadm' | tr '\n' ' ' > cleanup-dellomsa.out
sed -i -e 's/^srvad/yum -y remove srvad/g' cleanup-dellomsa.out
sed -i -e 's/^Open/yum -y remove Open/g' cleanup-dellomsa.out
sed -i -e 's/^dell/yum -y remove dell/g' cleanup-dellomsa.out
sed -i -e 's/^yum-dell/yum -y remove yum-dell/g' cleanup-dellomsa.out
cat cleanup-dellomsa.out

sh ./cleanup-dellomsa.out
rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-omsa-repository.repo
ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
yum clean all
yum -y install srvadmin-all srvadmin-idrac7 yum-dellsysid OpenIPMI libsmbios smbios-utils ipmitool

/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh enable || echo "ERROR: Could not enable Dell Services" && echo "NOTE: Dell Services enabled"

service instsvcdrv restart

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