Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) is an open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of the DMTF CIM/WBEM standards. The OMI CIMOM is also designed to be portable and highly modular. In order to attain its small footprint, it is coded in C, which also makes it a much more viable CIM Object Manager for embedded systems and other infrastructure components that have memory constraints for their management processor. OMI is also designed to be inherently portable. It builds and runs today on most UNIX® systems and Linux. In addition to OMI's small footprint, it also demonstrates very high performance.
RPM and DEB packages are provided for the installation of OMI on most enterprise Linux distributions. To install OMI, download the correct package for your Linux computer. Choose from:
- 64-bit (x64) architecture
- OpenSSL version 1.0.x, 1.1.x or 3.0.x (to determine your OpenSSL version, run:
openssl version) - RPM or Debian package format
You can download and install OMI from the Releases page. While version numbers change from release to release, the following downloads illustrates the package types for OMI:
| Platform | Release | Architecture | SSL | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Debian | x64 | 3.0.0 | omi-MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-BUILD.ssl_300.ulinux.x64.deb |
| Linux | Debian | x64 | 1.1.0 | omi-MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-BUILD.ssl_110.ulinux.x64.deb |
| Linux | Debian | x64 | 1.0.0 | omi-MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-BUILD.ssl_100.ulinux.x64.deb |
| Linux | RPM | x64 | 3.0.0 | omi-MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-BUILD.ssl_300.ulinux.x64.rpm |
| Linux | RPM | x64 | 1.1.0 | omi-MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-BUILD.ssl_110.ulinux.x64.rpm |
| Linux | RPM | x64 | 1.0.0 | omi-MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-BUILD.ssl_100.ulinux.x64.rpm |
Note: MAJOR, MINOR, PATCH, and BUILD refer to the version number information for the specific version of OMI that you wish to install.
Alternatively, you can now also download from Microsoft Repo. Instructions
on setting this up can be found here. Follow the instructions for your platform. You can then use your platform's package tool to install OMI (i.e. sudo apt-get install omi or sudo yum install omi).
The latest version of all supported platform packages can also be found here, but where possible we recommend downloading from the Microsoft Repo.
We support most modern Linux platforms (and some that aren't so modern). That said, our formal tested matrix of Linux platforms includes the following:
- CentOS 6 and 7 (x86 and x64)
- CentOS 8 x64 (omi>=1.6.5-0)
- Debian 8 (x86 and x64) and Debian 9 x64
- Debian 10 x64 and 11 x64 (omi>=1.6.8-0)
- Oracle Linux 6, and 7 (x86 and x64)
- Oracle Linux 8 x64 (omi>=1.6.8-0)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 and 7 (x86 and x64)
- Note: Red Hat 7.1 or later also runs on the PPC platform
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8 x64 (omi>=1.6.4-0)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 9 x64 (omi>=1.7.0-0)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 x64, 12 ppc and 15.
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS (x86 and x64)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x64 (omi>=1.6.8-0)
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS x64 (omi>=1.7.0-0)
As well as the Linux platforms supported, OMI is also tested to work on the following platforms:
- AIX 7.1 and 7.2
- HPUX 11.31 (ia64 only)
- Solaris 10 and 11 (Sparc and x86)
- For RPM based systems (RedHat, Oracle, CentOS, SuSE):
sudo rpm -Uvh ./omi-1.3.0-2.ssl_100.ulinux.x64.rpm
- For DPKG based systems (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.):
sudo dpkg -i ./omi-1.3.0-2.ssl_100.ulinux.x64.deb
Note: 1.3.0-2 is just an example, you should use the latest release version of OMI.
To download the source code to OMI for build purposes or to further develop OMI, please see repository Build-omi.