Open Management Infrastructure

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.

Additional Resources

• OMI Getting Started Guide
• Diagnosing OMI Failures

Get OMI

Using Github

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.

Using Package Managers

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.

Supported Linux Operating Systems

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)
• Debian 12 x64 (omi>=1.7.3-0)
• Oracle Linux 6, and 7 (x86 and x64)
• Oracle Linux 8 x64 (omi>=1.6.8-0)
• Oracle Linux 9 x64(omi>=1.7.0-0)
• 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)
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 (omi>=1.9.0-0)
• Rocky Linux 8 x64(omi>=1.6.10-0)
• Rocky Linux 9 x64(omi>=1.7.0-0)
• Alma Linux 8 x64(omi>=1.6.10-0)
• Alma Linux 9 x64(omi>=1.7.0-0)

Supported Unix Operating Systems

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)

Sample Installation Instructions

• 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.

Building and Developing OMI

To download the source code to OMI for build purposes or to further develop OMI, please see repository Build-omi.

Setting Up Credentials

• Setup of credentials for NTLM authentication is covered in setup-ntlm-omi (omi version >= v1.2.0-35)
• Setup of credentials for Kerberos authentication is covered in setup-kerberos-omi (omi version >= v1.4.0-6)

Running

Installing OMI configures a daemon named "omid" which can be controlled with standard service controllers: service or systemctl. Additionally, a service control script can be found at: /opt/omi/bin/service_control

Restarting OMI: sudo /opt/omi/bin/service_control restart

Testing OMI

To test that OMI is functional locally, the omicli command be used:

sudo /opt/omi/bin/omicli ei root/omi OMI_Identify

This command enumerates all instances of the OMI_Identify class in the root/omi namespace.

Configuring OMI Server

OMI's server configuration is set in the file: /etc/opt/omi/conf/omiserver.conf. Important configuration properties include:

Property	Purpose
httpsport	The HTTPs port(s) to listen on. The default is 5986. Multiple ports can be defined as a comma-separated list
httpport	The HTTP port to listen on. It is recommended that HTTP remain disabled (httpport=0) to prevent unencrypted communication
loglevel	The logging option for MI server. Valid options are: ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, VERBOSE (debug build), default value is: WARNING
agentDebugging	When true, each provider runs in its own omiagent process; when false, all providers run in same omiagent process, default value is: false. (omi version >= v1.4.3-1)
AuthorizedGroups	Setting for authorized user groups, for example: AuthorizedGroups=SCX\scx local admins, SCX\domain users, omi_allowed_group; its format is separated by commas, please check Allow Deny Handling for more detail. (omi version >= v1.4.3-1)
UnauthorizedGroups	Setting for unauthorized user groups, for example: UnauthorizedGroups=SCX\denied domain users, omi_denied_group; its format is separated by commas, please check Allow Deny Handling for more detail. (omi version >= v1.4.3-1)
pemfile	The certificate to use for TLS/SSL communication
keyfile	The private key that corresponds to the TLS/SSL certificate
NoSSLv2	When true, the SSLv2 protocol is disabled
NoSSLv3	When true, the SSLv3 protocol is disabled. If NoSSLv2 and NoSSLv3 are both set to true, only TLS encryption will be negotiated
NoTLSv1_0	When true, the TLSv1.0 protocol is disabled
NoTLSv1_1	When true, and if available on the platform, the TLSv1.1 protocol is disabled
NoTLSv1_2	When true, and if available on the platform, the TLSv1.2 protocol is disabled
sslciphersuite	The prioritized list of allowed SSL/TLS ciphers. For example, set ## The prioritized list of allowed SSL/TLS sslciphersuite=ALL:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!TLSv1:!TLSv0:!CBC:!RC4-MD5:!RC4-SHA:!SEED-SHA in /etc/opt/omi/conf/omiserver.conf to disable all SSLv2,SSLv3,TLSv1,TLSv0 ciphers and other weak ciphers: ##CBC,RC4-MD5,RC4-SHA,SEED-SHA; then run sudo /opt/omi/bin/service_control restart to take effect, for more information, check man ciphers or search internet with openssl man ciphers

Configuring OMI Client

Similar to configuring the server, the client configuration file is located at /etc/opt/omi/conf/omicli.conf.

Log Rotation Configuration

The log rotate configuration for omi can be found at: /etc/logrotate.d/omi (omi version >= 1.6.0)

The default settings are

# omi logs rotate configuration settings
/var/opt/omi/log/*.log /var/opt/omi/log/*.trc {
    # keep 5 worth of backlogs
    rotate 5

    # If the log file is missing, go on to the next one
    # without issuing an error message.
    missingok

    # Do not rotate the log if it is empty,
    # this overrides the ifempty option.
    notifempty

    # Old versions of log files are compressed with gzip by default.
    compress

    # Log files are rotated only if they grow bigger then 100M.
    size 100M

    # Truncate the original log file in place after creating a copy,
    # instead of moving the old log file and optionally creating a new one.
    copytruncate
}

Note:

1. To make log rotate every 15 minutes, we install a cron job at:/etc/cron.d/omilogrotate (omi version >= 1.6.0) The default setting is */15 * * * * root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/omi >/dev/null 2>&1.
2. If selinux is enabled on Linux machine, omi will install a selinux module called 'omi-logrotate' to make omi log rotate work fine on Linux platforms and Red Hat 7.1 PPC.
3. Supported platforms for selinux log rotate: Supported Linux Operating Systems
4. If cron or crond doesn't install on the machine, omi will not install omi log rotate cron job for omi logs to be rotated.
5. If you don't want omi cron to rotate omi logs, you can just remove it: sudo rm -f /etc/cron.d/omilogrotate.
6. If you want omi cron to rotate omi logs, but cron or crond doesn't start, then you can start it:sudo service cron start, sudo service crond start or sudo systemctl enable cron;sudo systemctl start cron.
7. If you want omi cron to rotate omi logs, but cron or crond doesn't install, then you can install it:sudo apt-get install -y cron, sudo yum install -y crond, sudo yum install -y cronie or sudo zypper in cron -y.

Remoting

Connecting from Linux to Linux

/opt/omi/bin/omicli ei root/omi OMI_Identify --auth Basic --hostname yourlinuxhostname -u root -p rootpwd --port 5985

Connecting from Linux to Windows

/opt/omi/bin/omicli ei root/cimv2 Win32_Environment --auth Basic --hostname yourwinmachine -u administrator -p adminpassword --port 5985

Connecting from Windows to Linux

winrm enumerate http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/OMI_Identify?__cimnamespace=root/omi -r:http://yourlinuxhostname:5985 -auth:Basic -u:root -p:"rootpassword" -skipcncheck -skipcacheck -encoding:utf-8 -unencrypted

Note: If your root password contains escaped character like 'rootpa^ssword', you need to use double quotes like -p:"rootpa^ssword" for winrm on Windows. These escaped characters need to use double quotes after '-p:' :

%^&<>|'`,;=()!"\[].*?

OMI Providers

OMI Provider examples:

Provider Name	Official Site
PowerShell Desired State Configuration - for Linux	DSC
System Center Cross Platform Provider for Operations Manager	SCXcore
PowerShell Remoting Protocol	PSRP
Docker Monitoring Agent for OMI Server	Docker Provider
MySQL Monitoring Agent for OMI Server	MySQL Provider
Apache Monitoring Agent for OMI Server	Apache Provider
Python Script Provider for OMI Server	Python Provider

Microsoft Products that use OMI

The following table lists the Microsoft products and Azure services that use OMI to orchestrate configuration management and log collection on Linux VMs:

Product Name	Official Site
Azure Automation Desired State Configuration	Azure Automation Desired State Configuration, DSC Extension
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)	System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems
Log Analytics Agent	Log Analytics Agent
Azure Security Center	Azure Security Center
Container Monitoring Solution	Container Monitoring Solution
Azure Sentinel	Azure Sentinel
Azure Stack Hub	Azure Stack Hub
Azure HDInsight	Azure HDInsight
Azure Automation	Azure Automation
Azure Automation Update Management	Azure Automation Update Management
Azure Diagnostics (LAD)	Azure Diagnostics (LAD)

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.