Comments on: How To Manage Dell Servers using OMSA – OpenManage Server Administrator On Linux

By: Ariel Rivera

Ariel Rivera — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:05:44 +0000

Again, thegeekstuff saved me from the hole I was in.
One would think vendors like Dell in this case should provide this kind of documents….

By: sylvain

sylvain — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:10:00 +0000

works fine with OEL 5.3
Thanks

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:31:54 +0000

Building on FastEddy760′s trick (which works great) for an earlier version:

#CentOS release 4.8 (Final)
CentOS release 4.8 (Nahant)

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How to Fix DELL PowerEdge Server E1810 HDD 1 Fault error message — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:04:12 +0000

[...] you have installed DELL OMSA or Dellmgr, you can verify the status of the hard disk without rebooting the [...]

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:08:19 +0000

This is a great article. I’ve been wanting to monitor the disks on our 2950 Dell servers running SuSE SLES 10 for some time. To get the software, I couldn’t use the browser, but was able to use ftp going to http://ftp.dell.com/sysman and downloading the appropriate package for my server.

By: DenyAll

DenyAll — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:39:02 +0000

If you’re running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can do:
# wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
# yum -y install srvadmin-storage srvadmin-base

By: KK

KK — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:49:28 +0000

I do not have webserver installed in my server, is there any alternatives I can use the OMSA in Linux server?

By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:52:11 +0000

As a followup, today I went a step further with version 6.2 of the OMSA software on 6 of my newer PE1950′s (same link as in this document, but changed the filename to OM_6.2.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz). Again, running Centos 5.5 and adding the string “Tikanga” (the “t” must be capitalized) I was able to install this flawlessly exactly as shown here.

This posting has been a lifesaver. I’m now monitoring nearly a dozen Dell’s in a NOC that’s 1/5 hours away. No more showing up with surprise amber flashing lights!

THANKS EVERYONE FOR THIS POSTING!!!

By: Sire

Sire — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:39:33 +0000

FastEddy is correct in his posting above. I went thru these exact steps for my old faithful Dell PE1750 a few moments ago. The installer failed with NO output and an error code 2 on CentOS 5.5.

By editing /etc/redhat-release and adding the word “Tikanga” to the end of the line, I was able to proceed with the install and was up and running in no time.

By: Albretch Mueller

Albretch Mueller — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:45:55 +0000

Hi Ramesh et al,
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after installing the deb omsa packages on a Debian base omsa seems to start on its own:
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Checking that /etc/ld.so.conf contains required paths…
Adding to /etc/ld.so.conf: /opt/dell/srvadmin/dataeng/bin
Adding to /etc/ld.so.conf: /opt/dell/srvadmin/hapi/bin
Adding to /etc/ld.so.conf: /opt/dell/srvadmin/oma/bin
Adding to /etc/ld.so.conf: /opt/dell/srvadmin/omsa/bin
Adding to /etc/ld.so.conf: /opt/dell/srvadmin/shared/bin
Adding to /etc/ld.so.conf: /opt/dell/srvadmin/sm
Adding to /etc/ld.so.conf: /opt/dell/srvadmin/sm/dellvl
Loading kernel modules
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting ipmi driver:
Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
Starting dsm_sa_datamgr32d:
Starting dsm_sa_eventmgr32d:
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but you can not get to it via https://localhost:1311/
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and if you try to (re)start the service, you would get a:
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# /opt/dell/srvadmin/omil/supportscripts/srvadmin-services.sh start
Unable to find ‘chkconfig’ utility in the PATH, cannot continue.
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Any tips on how to troubleshoot this problem
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Thanks
lbrtchx