OSMA 5 on Gentoo Linux

[Berend Dekens]

Hi,

Thanks for your help, I'll try to find those programs and try to get 
them to run.

FYI: I already have the multilib gentoo installation so in theory I 
should have everything required to run 32-bit libs on 64 bit Intel CPU's 
but I'll check out the references just in case.

Thanks for the nudge in the right direction :-)

Regards,
Berend Dekens

Harald_Jensas at Dell.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
>> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Berend Dekens
>> Sent: 20 July 2007 17:49
>> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
>> Subject: OSMA 5 on Gentoo Linux
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up monitoring on our new servers (1950 and 2950) and
>> my base system is Gentoo. Because we just dd-ed the drives and rebuild
>> the kernels we saved us the troubles of reinstalling completely.
>>
>> Now we are running into a snag: we can't get OpenManage to work... at
>> all. I've already bypassed the setup and extracted all the RPM's into
>> /opt/dell, added the support packages and their libs to the paths but
>> then I get stuck. It looks like some stuff is working, most is dead
>> though.
>>
>> Because I've never worked with OSMA on linux before I don't have a clue
>> what all the executables are supposed to...
>>
>> Does anyone have some advice to get it going on 64-bit Gentoo?
>>
>>     
>
> AFAIK OMSA is still a 32-bit only application, it requires 32-bit libraries to be installed on 64-bit systems. If you do not have that in place have a look here: 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64#32-bit_Libraries
>
> It is also possible you need to install other libraries for compatibility, maybe this:
> http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-libs/lib-compat
>
> I would suggest skipping the webserver for now and try to get the CLI part working first.
> The commands you want to test is "omreport" and "omconfig".
>
> Tips:
> Use the "ldd" command on each executable to make sure you have all the libraries you need installed.
> Use strace to try and figure out why it fails.
>
>
> If you just cannot get it to work try to get openipmi drivers loaded and ipmitool working. Ipmitool will let you read sensor data, HardWare SEL log etc.
> Either megarc (for PERC4), megacli (for PERC5) or afacli (for Perc3Di) might be options for RAID management. All these are command line tools. Try digging in the list archives for more information on each tool.
>
>
> Regards
> Harald Jensås
>