Steps
1) Obtain the latest OMSA available for the Dell server with you. I was not able to obtain the correct version of the OMSA for my Dell poweredge server R620 for an RHEL 6 operating system. Most of the RPMs in the RHEL 6 version is of i686 architecture and I was not able to obtain the OMSA installables for i686 architecture as on today.
OMSA is available for the other versions. I used
RHEL 5.10 and was able to install successfully.
DELL support website -> See the page as below
There are two options 1) If your browser is directly from the server you can use the “Detect My Product” option as shown above and get the drivers. Else get the service tag of your product and submit. Which automatically takes the model of your system and land in the driver download page.
Download the latest Dell OMSA for your product selecting the right operating system> scroll-down and expand ‘Systems Management’ -> Click on ‘OpenManage Server Administrator Managed Node’ ->OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-7.4.0-866_A00.tar.gz
Use the commands as below for linux
1) Unzip the file you downloaded by using the below command.
# tar –xzvf OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-7.4.0-866_A00.tar.gz
2) Use the below command to install the rpms
# sh linux/supportscripts/srvadmin-install.sh –express
3) Once installation is complete you can use the below command to start the services
# sh linux/supportscripts/srvadmin-services.sh start 4) Access the OMSA web console from the below IP. It uses port 1311 to access the OMSA https://{server-ip-address-where-OMSA-is-Installed}:1311
Note: use HTTPS to access the OMSA web console.
Provide the system username and password to login to the system
Below is the list of items that can be monitored actively
Below is the screenshot when one of the redundant power supply is down in my system
You can change the port from which you can access the DELL OMSA
Click on Preferance->General settings
You can also configure mail to send notification in your Dell OMSA
Another option is you can use a script to configure to send mail and do other things