OMSA, centos-4.4, and non-root access to omreport?

Michael E Brown Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Mon Mar 26 21:56:34 CST 2007


On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:58:08PM -0400, Jeff Potter wrote:
> 
> >> I'm stumped. OMSA 5.1 on Cent-OS 4.4 on a PE 1950 allows root to
> >> access 'omreport chassis' without any problem, but a non-root user
> >> sees nothing except the single word "Health" when running the same
> >> command.
> >
> > Working as designed.
> >
> > Suggestion: sudo.
> 
> Thanks; that makes it useable. For the record (anyone trying to use  
> nagios or nrpe plugins), I added the following line to /etc/sudoers:
> 
> 	nagios  ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/omreport
> 
> Is this something that changed between the 1850's and 1950's? (IPMI  
> v2 vs v1?) We've been calling omreport on the 1850's as part of our  
> nagios monitoring without having to do this.

I suppose I completely missed that the behaviour was different between
1850 and 1950. They have different DRAC cards, I think. Might account
for part of it. Other than that, I dont know.
--
Michael



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