Dell OpenManage installation on Proxmox 9 with Debian 13

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Installation of Dell Openmanage Server Administrator and accessory tools on Debian 13 / Proxmox 9 does not work using the instructions for the previous version.

Anybody have any luck with this and willing to share details?
 
What did you try and what failed? Can you provide a working url to download the files? linux.dell.com is not working at the moment to list files, just bad requests.
 
Today, it seems Dell fixed their problems and the page is up again.

Setting up the newest repository with ubuntu jammy sources:

Code: 
$ curl -s https://linux.dell.com/repo/pgp_pubkeys/0x1285491434D8786F.asc | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/dell.gpg
$ echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/dell.gpg] https://linux.dell.com/repo/community/openmanage/11100/jammy jammy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dell_ubuntu_jammy.list
$ apt update

I can replicate, that you cannot install srvadmin-all:

Code: 
$ apt install srvadmin-all
Solving dependencies... Error!
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
 srvadmin-itunnelprovider : Depends: sfcb (>= 1.3.7) but it is not installable
                            Depends: libcimcclient0 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not installable
                            Depends: openwsman (>= 2.2.3) but it is not installable
                            Depends: libcmpicppimpl0 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not installable
Notice: Ignoring file '0x1285491434D8786F.asc' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
   Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
   1. srvadmin-itunnelprovider:amd64 is selected for install because:
      1. srvadmin-all:amd64=11.1.0.0 is selected for install
      2. srvadmin-all:amd64 Depends srvadmin-standardagent (>= 11.1.0.0)
      3. srvadmin-standardagent:amd64 Depends srvadmin-itunnelprovider (>= 11.1.0.0)
   2. srvadmin-itunnelprovider:amd64 Depends sfcb (>= 1.3.7)
      but none of the choices are installable:
      [no choices]

On Jammy, those packages are present and the Integration can be NOT installed without problems. It just failes too, but other errors.
  • sfcb - small footprint CIM Broker
  • openwsman - Open Web Services Manager
They are not available in Debian in any suite, so no possible integration for the foreseeable future. One may try to build the packages for Debian Trixie, but that may or may not be straight forward and a possible gigantic rabbit hole.
 
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Hi,

I was just able to get through the install after modifying the script here:
https://jono-moss.github.io/post/dell-openanage-server-administrator-12-01-2024/

I'll have to go back and document exactly what I had to change, but I replaced some of the packages from: "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/o/openwsman" with the newest versions available in that directory.

After replacing those packages in the script, it completes and the web interface loads up. I used my proxmox root user to log in successfully.
 
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