Problems with omreport / omconfig

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:39:33AM -0800, Trey Sheldon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this, but I'm currently  
> running gentoo and trying to get OMSA 5.3 running on it.  I managed to  
> adapt the ebuild from the gentoo bugzilla (bug 113235) to get it  
> installed and mostly working.
> 
> So my problem lies in that omreport will give me some information such  
> as asset information and storage controller attributes, but some of  
> the higher level dell operations such as setting/retrieving lcd  
> messages are unavailable.  Errors such as "Error! No front panel  
> controls found on this system" keep popping up.
> 
> dsm_sa_datamgr, eventmgr and snmp are all running correctly to the  
> best of my knowledge.  I'm beginning to believe it may be an issue  
> with my ipmi configuration.  Can somebody confirm the method in which  
> lcd messages are set?

Make sure you have the ipmi kernel modules loaded and the /dev entries
for ipmi.

You need at least: 
ipmi_si.ko
ipmi_devintf.ko
ipmi_msghandler.ko

And you need /dev/ipmi0 (iirc)
--
Michael