Installing Dell OpenManage tools on XenServer Express

XenServer dom0 is based on CentOS, which is in turn based on RHEL. Dell officially supports RHEL, so the installation is pretty straightforward, except for the few little quirks.

First, you need to install procmail since it contains lockfile utility which is missing from XenServer:

1) Download CentOS 5 rpm:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/5531999/com/procmail-3.22-17.1.el5.centos.i386.rpm.html
2) Install it:

$ rpm -ivh procmail-3.22-17.1.el5.centos.i386.rpm

Now add Dell yum repository:

$ wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash

Install the packages:

$ yum install srvadmin-base srvadmin-diagnostics srvadmin-webserver srvadmin-storageservices

Start openmanage services:

$ srvadmin-services.sh start

Now adjust iptables configuration:
Add Dell default port to /etc/sysconfig/iptables
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 1311 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1311 -j ACCEPT

Restart iptables

$ service iptables restart

And thats it! You can access Dell Openmanage console at https://[server ip]:1311