Im just writing up this post because the dellomsa packages arent working with the new Debian Squeeze 6.0.
I had problems with the omreport command not giving me info of ex memory/psu/cpu. (omreport chassis info said No sensors found etc)
I used some hours to try to get it working with a newer dellomsa but that didnt work either.
Then i found some official Dell Ubuntu packages, which i found working excellent on Debian Squeeze as well:
dpkg -P dellomsa #Make sure dellomsa isnt installed.
echo 'deb http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/latest /' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux.dell.com.sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install srvadmin-base smbios-utils
You will also need the libsmbios2_2.2.13-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb from Ubuntu Lucid to get smbios stuff working.
dpkg -i libsmbios2_2.2.13-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
/etc/init.d/dataeng start #if this starts, omreport works!
Now you have the newer Debian Squeeze Dell stuff working.
We have deployed our hwmonitoring of our Dell servers with check_openmanage and Nagios
Read more about the check_openmanage on the check_openmanage site (this is a great plugin btw!)
Resources:
http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html
http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/latest/
