---
title: 'install racadm for IDRAC on Proxmox 7/8'
url: 'https://willifix.net/blog/install-racadm-for-idrac-on-proxmox-7-8'
markdown: 'https://willifix.net/blog/install-racadm-for-idrac-on-proxmox-7-8.md'
date: '2024-04-26'
description: 'This is how to setup iDRAC''s racadm tool on Proxmox 7/8. And iDRAC Service Module (iSM). Install Fetch the GPG key curl -fsSL https://linux.dell.com/repo/pgp_pubkeys/0x1285491434D8786F.asc | \ gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/dell-apt-key.gpg Add source file Create a file at /etc/apt/sources…'
---

## [install racadm for IDRAC on Proxmox 7/8](https://willifix.net/blog/install-racadm-for-idrac-on-proxmox-7-8)

    26th Apr 2024  

This is how to setup iDRAC's racadm tool on Proxmox 7/8. And iDRAC Service Module (iSM).

#### Install

##### Fetch the GPG key

```sh
curl -fsSL https://linux.dell.com/repo/pgp_pubkeys/0x1285491434D8786F.asc | \
gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/dell-apt-key.gpg
```

##### Add source file

Create a file at `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux.dell.com.sources.list` and put the following contents:

```bash
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/dell-apt-key.gpg] http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/openmanage/11000/jammy jammy main
# For Proxmox 7
#deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/dell-apt-key.gpg] http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/openmanage/10300/focal focal main
# If you want iDRAC Service Module(iSM)
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/dell-apt-key.gpg] http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/openmanage/iSM/5100/bullseye bullseye main
```

The `10300` (v10.3.0.0) part is the OMSA version found on the matrix available on [DELL's page](https://linux.dell.com/repo/community/openmanage/)

if you use the jammy release on Debian 11 it will throw `uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up` at install time. This is explained on [stackoverflow](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/669008/155610)

##### Install it

```
apt install srvadmin-idracadm8 dcism
```

##### Try `racadm`

```
racadmin getsysinfo
```

with `dcism` you need a reboot !

##### On Proxmox 8

I added back `deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian bullseye main` to the /etc/apt/sources.list file and ran: `apt install libssl1.1`. Because the binary /opt/dell/srvadmin/isM/bin/Invoke-iSMPKIHelper needs it (`ldd /opt/dell/srvadmin/iSM/bin/Invoke-iSMPKIHelper`).

And after added a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/bullseye with the contents:

```
Package: *
Pin: release n=bullseye
Pin-Priority: -1
```

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