From: Brecht Samyn [mailto:Brecht.Samyn@kulak.ac.be]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:25 AM
Subject: Dell Debian OMSA packages


Matt,

I made 2 .deb files out of the .rpm's of the OpenManage package. I can use
them to get the SNMP values out of a PE 2650 and a PE1650, running Debian
3.0.

- with Debian 3.0, there is no need to install another version of snmp, just
tune the snmpd.conf file so that you can read the Dell-specific MIBs.
- I think you need to build your own kernel in /usr/src/linux (the compiled
sources of my working kernel resided there, which seemed ok to build the esm
module) before installing the -driver package.
- with the kernel-sources in the right place I did:
    # dpkg -i dellomsa-drivers_4.71-3653_i386.deb.1
    # dpkg -i dellomsa_4.71-3653_i386.deb.1
    # mkdir /var/lock/subsys
    # /etc/init.d/dellomsaesm start

I hope this helps some people to get it working on Debian.

Brecht

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