Dell OMSA

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I have had partial success with installing Dell OpenManage on a Poweredge 2950. I am posting my steps in the hope that others will add further tips.

• OS: openSUSE 10.3 x86_64, fully updated.
• Hardware: Dell Poweredge 2950
• OMSA version 5.4

Steps

• As root, run:
• 10.3

zypper ar http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.4/platform_independent/suse10_64 dell-hw-indep

• 10.2

zypper sa http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.4/platform_independent/suse10_64

• Then: zypper in smbios-utils
• Run: getSystemId | grep "^System ID:"| cut -d: -f2 | xargs echo
• Note system id - mine was '0x01B2'
• Modify the following for your system id:
• 10.3

zypper ar http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.4/system.ven_0x1028.dev_0x01b2/suse10_64 omsa

• 10.2

zypper sa http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.4/platform_independent/suse10_64

• Install srvadmin rpms (per [1])
  • zypper in srvadmin-base
  • zypper in srvadmin-webserver - I got an MD5 checksum error with this.
  • zypper in srvadmin-storageservices
• Install SNMP: zypper in net-snmp
• Thanks to the Ubuntu folks for these next steps ([2]). It's been suggested that if net-snmp is already installed, the first two steps are not necessary.
  • service dataeng enablesnmp
  • service snmpd restart (if the previous command indicates this is necessary)
  • service dataeng start

I was then able to see valid output from (e.g) omreport chassis nics