Dell OMSA 5.5 on Lenny - 95% functional ;)

[Bas van der Vlies]

Lars Uffmann wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I managed to install the sara.nl (thanks guys ;) dellomsa package with 
> Lenny on a PowerEdge 2950, mainly following this blog here:
> http://sadsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/08/installing-dell-omsa-and-snmp-in-ubuntu.html
> 
> I got to the point that I finally managed to access the pseudo-webserver 
> at https://localhost:1311 (NOTE: http:// wouldn't work, only offered 
> some binary stream there).
> 
> Although I haven't manipulated anything there yet, I was able to access 
> all the menu items and get displays of the correct hardware setup in the 
> main window, EXCEPT for the "Software" entry in the main menu. As soon 
> as I select Software, the pseudo-webserver silently crashes (or so I 
> assume) and from then on, it is dead - no menu links will work anymore - 
> it's behaving exactly like there was no server on port 1311.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this behaviour, or could you tell me where to 
> look for a log file that would give me any hint on why the crash occured?
> 
> I'll try to compile a step-by-step guide on what I actually did to get 
> everything to run, but I haven't got one at the moment, as I mixed 
> instructions from several sources and kinda lost track of what I did ;)
> 
> I'm used to having some kind of log window on tty10 or 12 (under SuSE) - 
> however this seems unused / not to be the case on Lenny.
> 

Lars,

 We at SARA do not use the webserver but just a remark if you write a
step-by-step guide you can add the info to SARA trac side as link or
wiki-page. So the info is not scattered all over the web ;-)

Thanks


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*  Bas van der Vlies                    e-mail: basv at sara.nl       *
*  SARA - Academic Computing Services   Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
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