On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:31 -0500, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote: > Has someone created a how to or a tutorial for installing/configuring > DELL openmanage on centos ? > Heh. Just did it yesterday. Here's my cookbook. It leaves out some info because it's written for me and I know what I'm talking about ;-) If you need any clarification, let me know. 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 again, make sure snmpd is running download the .tar.gz, e.g from dell website, for example: OMI-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-450-32-335_A00.tar.gz untar somewhere run installer: sh linux/supportscripts/srvadmin-install.sh --express you may need to install compat-libstdc++ first, which comes in the tar file: rpm -Uvh linux/RPMS/compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2.i386.rpm it will start automatically on reboot, but to start the first time: srvadmin-services.sh start configure snmp (optional) ========================= 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: traphandle default /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/traptoemail -s localhost -f from at yourdomain.com to at yourdomain.com 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: trapsink 127.0.0.1 public trap2sink 127.0.0.1 public 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: mibs +MIB-Dell-10892:StorageManagement-MIB restart snmpd service snmpd restart