Administrator Guide

Prerequisites

Before using OMI on the Dell Networking OS switch, configure the following:

1. Create a user, with the user privilege 15, where this user can configure the box from the

management station through OMI.

2. Install the smartscript package. For detailed information, please refer to the Installing

SmartScripting section of the Smart Scripting chapter.

3. Install the OMI package.

EXEC Privilege mode

package install <ip-address>/OMI-I-9.8.0.0.tar.gz

Configuring the OMI

The OMI package supports the following configurations:

1. Enable the REST API.

CONFIGURATION mode

rest-server http

2. Configure script path /usr/pkg/omi108/bin/

All OMI configurations can now be just script execute omi-server-config args start

3. Start the OMI server.

CONFIGURATION mode

script execute /usr/pkg/omi108/bin/omi-server-config args start

4. Stop the OMI server.

CONFIGURATION mode

script execute /usr/pkg/omi108/bin/omi-server-config args stop

NOTE: The OMI server supports both secured (port 5986) and unsecured (port 5985) connections.

Other Scripts

To view the OMI agent status, use the omi-server-show script.

script execute omi-server-show args “arguments” [{top | bottom} number of lines]

The args options are:

• server — show omi-server log

• provider — show dell-provider log

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