Installation of Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) under Debian Linux

David Hausheer

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Use

OMSA enables to monitor the hardware of a Dell PowerEdge server (e.g. temperature, fan speed, etc.)

Update: Hardware monitoring on a Dell PowerEdge server is now also possible using the Linux lm-sensors package. But you may have to enable the SMBus which is disabled by default. See under related topics.

Installation

wget http://debian.marlow.dk/dists/woody/dell/pool/dellomsa-drivers_4.120-3925_i386.deb
wget http://debian.marlow.dk/dists/woody/dell/pool/dellomsa_4.120-3925_i386.deb

cd /usr/src
ln -s kernel-source-2.4.27 linux
dpkg -i dellomsa-drivers_4.120-3925_i386.deb

mkdir /var/lock/subsys
dpkg -i dellomsa_4.120-3925_i386.deb

update-rc.d dellomsaesm defaults 96 04
update-rc.d dellomsa defaults 97 03

Start

dellomsa start

Usage

snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost enterprises.674.10892.1

More info

http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml

Related topics

• Using lm-sensors to monitor a Dell PowerEdge 600SC server under Debian Linux

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