Install Dell OpenManage 6.1 / omsa / omreport into Citrix XenServer dom0

UPDATE 17/06/2010: Please also see the comment from David below and blog post about Dells supplemental package for XenServer 5.6 which may be a better method.

A quick guide to getting openmanage installed for RAID monitoring on a Xen node.

OM 6.2 has an error with “Error: Missing Dependency: libxslt.so.1″ which is with the Dell package.

***Use 6.1 if 6.2 doesn’t work for you (R710 for example)***
***UPDATE~***: As pointed out by digibyte in the comments, you may be able to use 6.2 by installing:

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

1. wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.1/bootstrap.cgi | bash
2. yum install srvadmin-storage.i386
3. srvadmin-services.sh start

Now test:
omreport storage pdisk controller=0

Sending an email on degraded RAID using omreport:

1. wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/mailx-8.1.1-46.fc7.i386.rpm
2. rpm -Uv mailx-8.1.1-46.fc7.i386.rpm
3. mkdir /root/scripts/
4. vi /root/scripts/check.raid.sh

#!/bin/sh
rm /tmp/check.raid.txt
omreport storage pdisk controller=0 | grep State | grep -v Online > /tmp/check.raid.txt
FILESIZE=$(stat -c%s "/tmp/check.raid.txt")
if [ $FILESIZE != 0 ];
then
	omreport storage pdisk controller=0 > /tmp/check.raid.txt
	cat /tmp/check.raid.txt | mail -s 'check RAID on XENxx' some@maildomain.ext
	echo "RAID - FAIL (mail sent)"
else
	echo "RAID - OK"
fi

5. chmod +x /root/scripts/check.raid.sh
6. crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /root/scripts/check.raid.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

7. Test /root/scripts/check.raid.sh

rpm -Uvh