ITAssistant not able to detect Fedora 7 (F7) box using SNMP and OMSA 5.2 installed

[John]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 21:15 +1000, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> *** I just resent this in case it was overlooked due to the labour day
> holiday ***
> *** Guys, can anyone please help? ***
> 
> I am using Fedora 7 (F7) on DELL PowerEdge 860 with OMSA 5.2
> 
> Thanks to this mailing list, I have done all below.
> 
> 1.   wget http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi
> 2.   Modify bootstrap.cgi
> 3.   ./bootstrap.cgi
> 4.   Modify /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/dellsysidplugin.conf
> 5.   getSystemId
> 6.   Modify /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-hw-specific-repository.repo
> 6a   ??? yum install net-snmp
> 7.   yum install srvadmin-all
> 8.   srvadmin-services.sh start
> 9.   Access https://Fedora7Box:1311 no problem
> 10.  Set ITAssistant server IP address and community name on
> https://Fedora7Box:1311 
> 
> However, my ITAssistant server was not able to detect the Fedora 7 Box.
> 
> It appears there must be something wrong with my SNMP set up.  
> Here is the result of # ps auxw | grep snmp
> root      3942  0.0  0.0  10256  1704 ?        Ss   11:58   0:00
> snmptrapd
> root      4785  0.5  0.1  48020  3076 ?        Ssl  13:20   0:24
> /opt/dell/srvadmin/dataeng/bin/dsm_sa_snmp32d
> root      4977  0.0  0.0   4008   708 pts/0    S+   14:30   0:00 grep
> snmp
> 
> I have got a few questions about SNMP setup for the LINUX box.
> 
> Q1.  Do I need to install/start net-snmp at all?
>      It appears I am duplicating snmp because net-snmp was not able to
> start/stop properly while dsm_sa_snmp32d is already started.
>      # service snmpd stop
>      Stopping snmpd:                                       [FAILED]
>      # service snmpd start
>      Starting snmpd:                                       [  OK  ]
>      # service snmpd status
>      snmpd dead but subsys locked
> Q2.  Do I need to install/start snmptrapd at all?
> 
> Q3.  I saw there are many articles on the Internet that mention about
> modifying snmpd.conf to change the community name in order to get DELL
> ITAssistant to detect the server.

Well, back up your current config file from "snmp.conf" then hack away
at it. You have nothing to lose as long it is not a production server in
service. Some where on this list someone posted a snmp.conf file way
back. Where this was done I think?

good luck


>      Is this procedure really required since I have already set this up
> in DELL OMSA online?
> 
> Has anyone encountered this problem before?
> 
> Thanks.
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