David Mansfield wrote much of this: My modified version of his cookbook. When you're finished, you should be able to find the web interface via https://yourmachine.yourdomain.com:1311 installing omsa =============== install net-snmp, net-snmp-utils then use 'chkconfig' and 'service' to make sure it is running, and will start on subsequent boots yum -y install net-snmp net-snmp-utils chkconfig snmpd on chkconfig snmptrapd on yum -y install OpenIPMI chkconfig ipmi on service ipmi start wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/bootstrap-omsa-all.sh | bash yum -y install srvadmin-all # to see if dataeng has snmp support: /etc/init.d/dataeng getsnmpstatus # if necessary, enable snmp through omsa: /etc/init.d/dataeng enablesnmp # NOTE: please fix the email addresses in the next instruction! # setup trap handling for snmptrapd. edit /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf and add: echo "traphandle default /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/traptoemail -s localhost -f from at yourdomain.com to at yourdomain.com" > /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf # restart snmptrapd service snmptrapd restart # setup local snmpd to deliver traps to localhost. edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf (probably only v2 is necessary) and add: cat >> /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf <<EOF trapsink 127.0.0.1 public trap2sink 127.0.0.1 public EOF # add the mibs find /opt/dell/ -name \*.mib -exec cp {} /usr/share/snmp/mibs \; # tell net-snmp progs to read the mibs. edit /etc/snmp/snmp.conf and add: echo "mibs +MIB-Dell-10892:StorageManagement-MIB" >> /etc/snmp/snmp.conf # restart snmpd service snmpd restart