Install RACADM on Rocky 9

I just recently put some effort into rebuilding my server(s) host os for my VMs. One of the things I dreaded was loosing racadm just in case I needed it when upgradeing from CentOS 7 to Rocky LInux 9. Spent some time going down the wrong rabbit holes among other things. I ended up stumbling on a posting/faq(?) to install racadm on ubuntu. In it held some keys to getting what I want done.

The first thing I needed was what was I really searching for. “Dell iDRAC Tools for Linux”

Pluggin that into google and I find many hits. I settled on the version 11.0.0.0 no real reason over older versions other than it is the highest version I could find.

I reviewed the install script inside the download and did not see clear it should work with Rocky Linux 9. But it is a RHEL spin so RHEL9 might work.

So I ended up doing something like this:

wget 'https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER08952875M/1/Dell-iDRACTools-Web-LX-11.0.0.0-5139_A00.tar.gz'
tar xvf Dell-iDRACTools-Web-LX-11.0.0.0-5139_A00.tar.gz
cd iDRACTools/racadm/
./install_racadm.sh

The output was shall we say not inspiring…

root@atlas racadm]# ./install_racadm.sh 
./install_racadm.sh: line 168: [: 11000: unary operator expected
./install_racadm.sh: line 172: [: 11000: unary operator expected
./install_racadm.sh: line 175: [: 11000: unary operator expected
sed: can't read /etc/bash.bashrc: No such file or directory
     **********************************************************
     After the install process completes, you may need 
     to logout and then login again to reset the PATH
     variable to access the RACADM CLI utilities

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[root@atlas racadm]#

So I took care of it by hand just in case.

cd RHEL9/x86_64/
rpm -i srvadmin-*.rpm

At that point I fired up a new bash shell and racadm was in the path and seemingly functional.

[root@atlas racadm]# racadm getniccfg

IPv4 settings:
NIC Enabled          = 1
IPv4 Enabled         = 0
DHCP Enabled         = 1

.....and on.....