Open SuSE 10.2 and OMSA 5.x

Hi,

 

how did you get this combination working? I just received 2 PE2950, installied SUSE 10.2 on both, but SETUP.SH just exits after a few seconds.

 

Kind regards

Winnie

Yeah, got it working. Thanks for the post as I have intention to share the solution but forgot to do so due to tight schedule. I will post the solution here later today, as I need to tidy up the documentation for sharing. :smileyhappy:

11.  Create a version file, /etc/SuSE-release if not already existing with the following content;

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10(i586)

VERSION=10

 

Note: This file is required as a cheat for the OMSA installation scripts to work.

 

12.  Download OMSA 5.2 for Linux from http://support.dell.com. Extract the file by executing;

tar xvzf OM_5.2.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz

 

13.  To perform installation, execute the script provided in the extracted files;

…../linux/supportscripts/srvadmin-install.sh

 

14.  Select required components from the menu and enter “i” to perform installation.

 

15.  Once completed, all the Dell OMSA and SNMP services can be started by executing the following scripts;

…../linux/supportscripts/srvadmin-services.sh start

/etc/rc.d/snmpd start

 

Note: A complete installation guide for OMSA can be downloaded from http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/5.2/en/ug/pdf/omsa52ug.pdf.

 

16.  Once the services had started successfully, configurations on the IT Assistant console can be done as usual. Please refer to the IT Assistant documentation for more details.

Here we go, to share the steps that I have performed. Note: Open SuSE is not a supported OS by Dell, so I believe you will not get any support. Good luck.

 

 

Note: Steps 1 to 9 are possible with the assumption that net-snmp 5.4 that comes with the SuSE OpenLinux 10.2 is already installed.

 

1.      Download the net-snmp 5.4 source code from the internet, e.g.;

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/net-snmp/net-snmp-5.4.tar.gz?modtime=1164371043&big_mirror=1

 

2.      Extract the files by executing;

tar xvzf net-snmp-5.4.tar.gz

 

3.      Download the contributed patch from; http://www.binarytag.com/EXMAIL/mailinglists/binarytag_net-snmp-patches/msg00088.html

 

Note: This patch is required because there is a bug in net-snmp 5.4 where smuxpeer must be provided with an authentication password parameter, proving a null password will cause segmentation fault to the net-snmp daemon.

 

4.      Place patchfile net-snmp-5.4-smux-nopass.patch outside of net-snmp-5.4 source directory and execute the patching process;

patch -p0 –i net-snmp-5.4-smux-nopass.patch

 

5.      Within the source directory net-snmp-5.4, configure the net-snmp package before compilation with the following option;

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-logfile=/var/log/net-snmpd.log --with-persistent-directory=/var/lib/net-snmp --with-mib-modules=smux

 

Note: The parameters selected best match the default configurations by SuSE OpenLinux 10.2, based on the following link; http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/suselinux/net-snmp.html

 

 

6.      Compile the package;

make

 

7.      Install the package;

make install

 

8.      Make modifications to the /etc/rc.d/snmpd startup script;

Remark the lines;

 

#if [ $SNMPDCONF = “etc/snmp/snmpd.conf” ]; then

#          SNMPDCONF=””

#else

            SNMPDCONF=”-c $SNMPDCONF”

#fi

 

Note: Use any text editor such as “vi” in order to perform the changes. The change is required because the default compilation of net-snmp daemon does not search for the configuration file in /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.

 

9.      Add the snmpd daemon to be within the startup of run level 3;

chkconfig –a snmpd

 

10.  Modify the content of the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf configuration file to suit the SNMP community configurations;

 

 

Note: Use any text editor such as “vi” in order to perform the changes.

 

 

Great!

 

Thanks a lot, i will try it asap.

 

Winnie

Hi,

 

there is no need to compiling and patching net-snmp. The package provided with openSuSE 102. is sufficient. You just have to set a password on the SMUX peer after installation:

 

1. change /etc/snmpd.com from

smuxpeer .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1

to

smuxpeer .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1 secret

 

2. configure OMSA to use the same password

All you need in the SNMPD.conf file is:

 

rocommunity public
trapsink  public
smuxpeer .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1