What happened to my OMSA ?

[Tom Brown]

> I've had OMSA 4.5 installed and working fine on a PE2600 running RHEL3 for a 
> year or so.  I noticed last week that items displayed in the web interface 
> under the MainChassis item is now an abbreviated list of what was being 
> displayed about a month ago.  Currently this item lists only Memory, 
> Network, and Ports.  Previously I recall it listed Fans, Temperature 
> Sensors, and I think some other stuff; at least fans and temps were listed 
> somewhere, now they are nowhere to be found.  The only thing that I have 
> done lately to my system is updated some packages and my kernel from U7 to 
> U8 with a reboot.  I looked in dmsg for some possible clues, but as a novice 
> linux administrator for a small company (full time ecologist, part time 
> system admin) I may not recognize the clues that are there.  If anyone can 
> tell me what might of happened, or provide me some guidance for what to look 
> for I would appreciate it.  I would like to understand what happened first 
> before trying to fix it.  I am sure people are going to tell me to upgrade 
> to OMSA 5.0 (which I may do), but I am coming to the knowledge base here to 
> try to learn something first.  If there is any other information that I can 
> provide to the list let me know.
>   
i would try restarting OMSA as i have seen strange things similar to 
what you describe using OMSA 4.5 on 1855's which seem to happen on a 
reboot. I have had to add a OMSA restart into my bootup scripts to 
'solve' this.