No this is not your relaxation chant for Friday afternoon, but I want to clue you in on what seems to be a little secret when you install the OMSA agent on a server. There was a thread on the TechCenter this week about thermal monitoring. Of course, I read too much into the question like I always do, and answered the wrong question at first , won't be the first or last time I do that :-)

The question boiled down to, "How can I read the temp probes of my server and write them to a file for trend analysis ?"

When you install OMSA it also installs a command line utility called "omreport". Open a CMD window and type "omreport -?" , from there you can walk the tree, or get this ... there is documentation ! I'm leaving the script writing part as an exercise for the reader. If you're in linux, it's easy enough to grep out what you need, slap to the end of a file and repeat. In the Windows world, it takes a bit more work. If one of you comes up with an elegant solution, post it on the OpenManage Scripts and Tools section, and I'll send you kudos, a badge, and a shirt !

And here's another little secret I'll let you in on, I didn't find out about the omreport CLI until I had worked with OMSA for three months !

Scott - Back to SystemsEdge Blog