I think I got the problem solved. Someone else noted on a 
linux-poweredge list that the smbios version might be causing this 
issue.  I checked the priority settings in the repo setup and got the 
smbios updated, then updated the OMSA stuff again and all is well again.

On 08/23/2012 05:28 PM, Michael Morgan wrote:
> Sorry, MUA screwed up and this only went to the list. Wanted to make sure you
> got it as it saved me from a pretty good headache.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 06:20:23PM -0400, Michael Morgan wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:08:37AM -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
>>> A few systems that did not update this morning have the srvadmin 7.0
>>> packages from Dell's repo.  Version 7.1 appears to break OMSA on SL6.x
>>>
>> I just ran into this myself. Reading through the dataeng init script eventually
>> led to /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/CheckSystemType. Touching
>> /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib64/openmanage/IGNORE_GENERATION triggered an override and
>> let OMSA start up properly. Hopefully it does the same for you.
>>
>> -Mike
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