Linux Dell OMSA Guide

This document will explain how to use the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA), including installation, testing, troubleshooting.

Document Owner: Todd Walters

Requirements 

• Dell OpenManage Software must be installed 
• Dell Open Manager Server Administrator Guide
  

Install Dell OMSA in /opt

1. [root@srv0esx002 tmp]# cd /opt
2. [root@srv0esx002 opt]# mkdir dell dell/omsa
3. [root@srv0esx002 opt]# tar xvfz /tmp/OM_6.1.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz -C /opt/dell/omsa
4. Change directory to /opt/dell/omsa and run setup.sh 
1. Enter y to accept license agreement 
2. Enter 6 to Select all components 
3. Enter i to begin installation 
4. Press enter for default installation location 
5. Press y to start the services up 
6. Verify all service start properly (ok) 

Verify OMSA runs properly by running following command: 

• [root@srv0esx002 omsa]# omreport system summary

Usage Guide for Dell OMSA 

• Dell OMSA is installed and is run via cron. It can also be run manually. 
• It's installed in /opt/dell/srvadmin 
• omreport -? will list options.
  
• Install/uninstall and start/stop scripts are located in /var/install/Dell/OMSA/linux/supportscripts

To restart run

• /var/install/Dell/OM6/linux/supportscripts/srvadmin-services.sh restart

To check OMSA Controller for example run the following command:

• root@srv0dbx03 supportscripts]# omreport storage pdisk controller=0 | grep -e ID -e State
  ID : 0:0:0
  State : Online
  ID : 0:0:1
  State : Online

Download

• http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/omsa-64-live/OMSA64-CentOS55-x86_64-LiveCD.iso

 To clear the logs in open manage server administrator you click “System” at the top of the hierarchy > then click the “Logs” tab > directly below you will see “Hardware | Alert”, click each of those > then click “Clear Log” in the top right corner. You must be logged in as administrator to perform this task. (This can be down remotely connecting to open manage).

To clear the logs in Linux you can run the following commands.

• omconfig system esmlog action=clear
• omconfig system alertlog action=clear

Should have this file: dcicfg32 command=clearmemfailures

Run the file and it will clear the memory cache. Clearing the ESM and alert logs alone does not re-enable the error count.

If you do not locate the file.  I would suggest opening a cmd prompt to the root of c: and running dir /s dcicfg32.exe to locate the utility.

The command to clear the error count is dcicfg32 command=clearmemfailures