OMSA depency glitch

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:38:31PM +0200, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've just installed OMSA 5.2 on an openSUSE 10.2 powered PowerEdge 650.
> The bootstrap.cgi didn't work; I had to configure the repositories
> manually (the platform independent and the hw-specific for PE650).

Ok, if the bootstrap.cgi didnt work, that is a problem. 

I suspect you are the first person in the world to ever try the
bootstrap.cgi on a SLES10 system aside from me when I was developing it.
Yes, SLES is *that* popular. :)

If you would kindly email the error messages you were getting I would
really like to fix that.

> 
> After installing OMSA via Yast, omconfig/omreport just said:
> 
> mreport         Reports component properties.
>  
> The available command(s) are:
>   
> Command          Description
> Error! User has insufficient privileges to run command.
> 
> It took an strace to figure out that it was looking for some library and
> that I needed to install srvadmin-omhip as well.
> 
> Maybe I should have sticked to the meta packages?

I'm not an OMSA developer, but I would highly recommend the meta
packages. :)

> I'm actually writing this to spread the information since the error
> message is misleading and other people might come across this as well.

Thank you.

> PS/BTW: net-snmp is broken in SuSE 10.2 and crashes if you configure an
> smuxpeer without a password. Upgrading to 5.4.1 helped. RPM on request.
> PS2: Where could I set an SMUX password for the OMSA components?

No idea. Maybe somebody else knows?

--
Michael