OMSA is a web based application to manage DELL PowerEdge Servers. Using OMSA you can perform proactive system monitoring, system diagnosis, troubleshoot hardware issues and configure RAID etc., You can also view and manage hardware’s embedded system management (ESM) log using OMSA.

Create the repository for download:

# wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash

 

[root@inet11xxx ~]# ls -l

total 0

[root@inet11xxx ~]# wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash

Downloading GPG key: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell

Importing key into RPM.

Downloading GPG key: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios

Importing key into RPM.

Write repository configuration

Downloading repository RPM

Installing repository rpm: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh50_64/prereq/dell-omsa-reposi                                                       tory-2-5.noarch.rpm

Installing yum plugins for system id

Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager

This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.

This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.

dell-omsa-indep                                                                                    | 1.9 kB     00:00

dell-omsa-indep/primary_db                                                                         | 545 kB     00:00

dell-omsa-specific                                                                                 | 1.9 kB     00:00

dell-omsa-specific/primary_db                                                                      | 545 kB     00:00

Setting up Install Process

Resolving Dependencies

–> Running transaction check

—> Package yum-dellsysid.x86_64 0:2.2.27-4.9.1.el5 set to be updated

–> Processing Dependency: smbios-utils-python >= 2.2.0 for package: yum-dellsysid

–> Running transaction check

—> Package smbios-utils-python.x86_64 0:2.2.27-4.9.1.el5 set to be updated

–> Processing Dependency: python-smbios = 2.2.27-4.9.1.el5 for package: smbios-utils-python

–> Running transaction check

—> Package python-smbios.x86_64 0:2.2.27-4.9.1.el5 set to be updated

–> Processing Dependency: libsmbios = 2.2.27-4.9.1.el5 for package: python-smbios

–> Processing Dependency: python-ctypes for package: python-smbios

–> Running transaction check

—> Package libsmbios.x86_64 0:2.2.27-4.9.1.el5 set to be updated

—> Package python-ctypes.x86_64 0:1.0.2-4.7.1.el5 set to be updated

–> Finished Dependency Resolution

 

Dependencies Resolved

 

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Package                          Arch                Version                       Repository                       Size

==========================================================================================================================

Installing:

yum-dellsysid                    x86_64              2.2.27-4.9.1.el5              dell-omsa-indep                  16 k

Installing for dependencies:

libsmbios                        x86_64              2.2.27-4.9.1.el5              dell-omsa-specific              1.5 M

python-ctypes                    x86_64              1.0.2-4.7.1.el5               dell-omsa-specific              215 k

python-smbios                    x86_64              2.2.27-4.9.1.el5              dell-omsa-specific               70 k

smbios-utils-python              x86_64              2.2.27-4.9.1.el5              dell-omsa-specific               63 k

 

Transaction Summary

==========================================================================================================================

Install       5 Package(s)

Upgrade       0 Package(s)

 

Total download size: 1.9 M

Downloading Packages:

(1/5): yum-dellsysid.rpm                                                                           |  16 kB     00:00

(2/5): smbios-utils-python.rpm                                                                     |  63 kB     00:00

(3/5): python-smbios.rpm                                                                           |  70 kB     00:00

(4/5): python-ctypes-1.0.2-4.7.1.el5.x86_64.rpm                                                    | 215 kB     00:00

(5/5): libsmbios.rpm                                                                               | 1.5 MB     00:00

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Total                                                                                     874 kB/s | 1.9 MB     00:02

Running rpm_check_debug

Running Transaction Test

Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Test Succeeded

Running Transaction

Installing     : python-ctypes                                                                                      1/5

Installing     : libsmbios                                                                                          2/5

Installing     : python-smbios                                                                                                                                             3/5

Installing     : smbios-utils-python                                                                                                                                       4/5

Installing     : yum-dellsysid                                                                                                                                             5/5

 

Installed:

yum-dellsysid.x86_64 0:2.2.27-4.9.1.el5

 

Dependency Installed:

libsmbios.x86_64 0:2.2.27-4.9.1.el5    python-ctypes.x86_64 0:1.0.2-4.7.1.el5    python-smbios.x86_64 0:2.2.27-4.9.1.el5    smbios-utils-python.x86_64 0:2.2.27-4.9.1.el5

 

Complete!

Loaded plugins: dellsysid, product-id, security, subscription-manager

This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.

Cleaning up Everything

Done!

 

Install OpenManage Server Administrator:

 # yum install srvadmin-all

# cd /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin

# ./srvadmin-services.sh start

 

Access OMSA from web browser

Login to OMSA from web using the URL: https://{omsa-server-ip-address}:1311 as root.

 

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