Installing OMSA Agent

I have figured this out.

Instruction to install should be:
./install.sh

OK so now I have another problem.

The agent was installing, and then the process seem to stop, or at least the activity of the screen stopped. I assume that some process was running in the background.

Anyway all of a sudden I am returned from the shell to XenServer console.

I open the shell, but I am on a new session, not the one where the agent was installing.

Is the other shell still running, and if so, how do I connect to it?

Or has the Agent installation completed, if so, how can I check the status?

Thanks

VW

Hi,
Forget about the ISO based install, and follow this link. The only requirement would be to have internet access from this server to http://linux.dell.com. If you have a proxy server, the either set the proxy variable for the entire system or only for yum(system updater tool comes along with Xenserver) and wget (command line browser) like this,

1. # echo "proxy=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:abcd" >> /etc/yum.conf
2. # echo "http_proxy=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:abcd" >> /etc/wgetrc

Then follow the guide from here, http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/

finally run

# cd /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc
# sh autoconf_cim_component.sh
# srvadmin-services start

http://servername:1311 (OMSA access page)

Just add an entry to /etc/sysconfig/iptables like
"-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1311 -j ACCEPT" after this line
"-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT"
and restart iptables by

/etc/init.d/iptables restart.

You are go to go.

dont worry about previous installation you started. If you are still in doubt then clean (remove) the OMSA install by

# yum erase $(rpm -qa | grep srvadmin)
then reboot the system and start the new yum based install mentioned above.

Naga

Hi,
Forget about the ISO based install, and follow this link. The only requirement would be to have internet access from this server to http://linux.dell.com. If you have a proxy server, the either set the proxy variable for the entire system or only for yum(system updater tool comes along with Xenserver) and wget (command line browser) like this,

1. # echo "proxy=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:abcd" >> /etc/yum.conf
2. # echo "http_proxy=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:abcd" >> /etc/wgetrc

Then follow the guide from here, http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/

finally run

# cd /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc
# sh autoconf_cim_component.sh
# srvadmin-services start

http://servername:1311 (OMSA access page)

Just add an entry to /etc/sysconfig/iptables like
"-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1311 -j ACCEPT" after this line
"-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT"
and restart iptables by

/etc/init.d/iptables restart.

You are go to go.

dont worry about previous installation you started. If you are still in doubt then clean (remove) the OMSA install by

# yum erase $(rpm -qa | grep srvadmin)
then reboot the system and start the new yum based install mentioned above.

Naga

@Naga

Firstly, thanks for responding!

I have installed the ISO now.

I was hoping to be able to monitor the XenServer host from a Windows server with Server Administrator installed, although at the moment I haven't figured out how to do this.

Given my goal, do I need to do all of the above?

It seems redundant to me to download the installation again, unless it is a different package. Are you able to explain the differences between the ISO package and the yum repository?

Cheers

VW

@Naga,

Since I have installed OMSA, I have tried to connect to http://server_ip:1311 and https://server_ip:1311 and no Web page loads.

I tried the following commands from your earlier post:

# cd /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc
# sh autoconf_cim_component.sh
# srvadmin-services start

The first two were OK, but the third resulted in

bash: srvadmin-services: command not found

Can you offer any suggestions?

Thanks

VW

"@Naga

Firstly, thanks for responding!

I have installed the ISO now.

I was hoping to be able to monitor the XenServer host from a Windows server with Server Administrator installed, although at the moment I haven't figured out how to do this.

Given my goal, do I need to do all of the above?

It seems redundant to me to download the installation again, unless it is a different package. Are you able to explain the differences between the ISO package and the yum repository?

Cheers

VW

"

No if you have installed the ISO version then its fine. The difference between the ISO and YUM is.

With CD ISO, everytime there is an update you need to burn a CD with the ISO physically present it to the server or mount as an ISo and install / update from there...

with yum just typing "yum update srvadmin-all" with do the magic.

To monitor Citrix xenserver from Windows you would need DELL IT Assistant not dell openmanage server administrator.

Please follow the link for full instructions.

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/software/citrix/en/solutionsguide/5_6/HTML/solutioi.htm#wp1181335

First try logging out and logging in, the

# srvadmin-services start.

else try this
/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh start.

or simply reboot your system. Try telnetting on to server_ip 1311 to see if you are able to connect to the port.

from the xenserver try netstat -nl |grep 1311 and see if you get some thing like this

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1311 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

Naga

Rebooting the server resolved the issue.

Server Admin looks exactly the same as the Windows version. Cool.

I notice that with SNMP you don't get alerts for storage system failures, so rather than using IT Assistant I will configure the alerts in Server Admin as per usual. In Windows I created a small command line application which I could use with the 'Execute application' option to send an e-mail if a failure occurred. I'm going to need to do something similar here. Can you offer any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch, you have been very helpful.

I will be setting up two more XenServers in the next month and I will try the yum approach with them.

VW

I use IT Assistant to gather info and by using setting trap destinations. If you have the windows application to send you alert post it here, I will modify it to work with linux if required,