change bios settings via script
Hi, I just received a shipment of several R410 that I'm going to use in a compute cluster and I just found out that the hyper-threading is turned on by default in the bios. Linux sees the two quad cores as 16 logical processors. I need to disable it in 40 or so machines. Is there any way of disabling it via a script? ipmitool, racadm, omconfig, anything?? Thanks, Daniel. ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: change bios settings via script
omconfig should be able to do it. You can also look on the support site for the R410 and look for the Dell Deployment Toolkot (DTK). The DTK is designed for enmasse BIOS changes. BTW - you might want to look at your other BIOS settings. Typically for HPC, HT is turned off and there are a few other settings (Turbo On, C-state's off, max power, and one other I think). I'm betting the account team didn't put the HPC SKU on the order. The HPC SKU changes the BIOS settings for you. Jeff From: Daniel De Marco To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 8:19:04 PM Subject: change bios settings via script Hi, I just received a shipment of several R410 that I'm going to use in a compute cluster and I just found out that the hyper-threading is turned on by default in the bios. Linux sees the two quad cores as 16 logical processors. I need to disable it in 40 or so machines. Is there any way of disabling it via a script? ipmitool, racadm, omconfig, anything?? Thanks, Daniel. ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: PowerEdge 2900 (PERC 6/i) very slow on disk writing.
Hi Gido Here it follows the results you requested. Thanks Bene # dmesg | grep mega Aperture: 64 megabytes megasas: 00.00.03.15-RH1 Wed Nov. 21 10:29:45 PST 2007 megasas: 0x1000:0x0060:0x1028:0x1f0c: bus 1:slot 0:func 0 megasas: FW now in Ready state # dmesg | grep bnx2 Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.6.9 (December 8, 2007) bnx2: eth0 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex bnx2: peth0 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex # dmesg | grep Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.6.9 (December 8, 2007) eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f800, IRQ 16, node addr 002219806b5d eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f400, IRQ 16, node addr 002219806b5f #dmidecode # dmidecode 2.7 SMBIOS 2.5 present. 67 structures occupying 3419 bytes. Table at 0xBFB9C000. Handle 0xDA00, DMI type 218, 11 bytes. OEM-specific Type Header and Data: DA 0B 00 DA B2 00 17 00 0E 20 00 Handle 0x, DMI type 0, 24 bytes. BIOS Information Vendor: Dell Inc. Version: 2.5.0 Release Date: 09/12/2008 Address: 0xF Runtime Size: 64 kB ROM Size: 1024 kB Characteristics: ISA is supported PCI is supported PNP is supported BIOS is upgradeable BIOS shadowing is allowed ESCD support is available Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported EDD is supported Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h) 5.25"/360 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h) Print screen service is supported (int 5h) 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int 14h) Printer services are supported (int 17h) CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h) ACPI is supported USB legacy is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Function key-initiated network boot is supported Targeted content distribution is supported BIOS Revision: 2.5 Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes. System Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: PowerEdge 2900 Version: Not Specified Serial Number: 3FVKRH1 UUID: 44454C4C-4600-1056-804B-B3C04F524831 Wake-up Type: Power Switch SKU Number: Not Specified Family: Not Specified Handle 0x0200, DMI type 2, 9 bytes. Base Board Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: 0NX642 Version: A07 Serial Number: ..CN1374088N007F. Handle 0x0300, DMI type 3, 21 bytes. Chassis Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Type: Main Server Chassis Lock: Present Version: Not Specified Serial Number: 3FVKRH1 Asset Tag: Not Specified Boot-up State: Safe Power Supply State: Safe Thermal State: Safe Security Status: Unknown OEM Information: 0x Heigth: 5 U Number Of Power Cords: Unspecified Contained Elements: 0 Handle 0x0400, DMI type 4, 40 bytes. Processor Information Socket Designation: CPU1 Type: Central Processor Family: Xeon Manufacturer: Intel ID: 76 06 01 00 FF FB EB BF Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 23, Stepping 6 Flags: FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip) VME (Virtual mode extension) DE (Debugging extension) PSE (Page size extension) TSC (Time stamp counter) MSR (Model specific registers) PAE (Physical address extension) MCE (Machine check exception) CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported) APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported) SEP (Fast system call) MTRR (Memory type range registers) PGE (Page global enable) MCA (Machine check architecture) CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported) PAT (Page attribute table) PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension) CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported) DS (Debug store) ACPI (ACPI supported) MMX (MMX technology supported) FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore) SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions) SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2) SS (Self-snoop) HTT
Re: OpenManage and OpenSuse 11
Thanks for the suggestion, but installation isn't the problem. Already read those instruction. It is installed fine, just the web interface won't work in spite of the status messages... It isn't even listeining on its port. - Original Message From: Philip Tait To: Patrick de Groot Cc: linux-poweredge@dell.com Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 6:44:58 PM Subject: Re: OpenManage and OpenSuse 11 Patrick, See if any of the information on this page helps: http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_of_Dell_OpenManage_%28OMSA%29_for_Poweredge_servers Updates and corrections welcome. Philip J. Tait http://subarutelescope.org Patrick de Groot wrote: > OpenManage 5.5 web interface doesn't run on OpenSuse 11 (you may handle it > like Suse 11 if you like). It installs fine, but the web part does not run. > -command "omreport about" works > -"/etc/init.d/dsm_om_connsvc status" displays "running" > -"natstat -nat" doesn't display a row with port 1311 so clearly the service > isn't up and running. Problem seems similar to this one: > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2008-October/037482.html > > So what can I try or how do I debug this? > > Thanks! > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > ___ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: OpenManage and OpenSuse 11
Patrick, See if any of the information on this page helps: http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_of_Dell_OpenManage_%28OMSA%29_for_Poweredge_servers Updates and corrections welcome. Philip J. Tait http://subarutelescope.org Patrick de Groot wrote: > OpenManage 5.5 web interface doesn't run on OpenSuse 11 (you may handle it > like Suse 11 if you like). It installs fine, but the web part does not run. > -command "omreport about" works > -"/etc/init.d/dsm_om_connsvc status" displays "running" > -"natstat -nat" doesn't display a row with port 1311 so clearly the service > isn't up and running. Problem seems similar to this one: > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2008-October/037482.html > > So what can I try or how do I debug this? > > Thanks! > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > ___ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
RE: Network Performance
> What is the practical network speed on a 2 x 1Gbps channel > bond between two servers. I have 2 x dell PowerEdge servers > running SLES10SP2 and both connected with two Gigabit NIC in > a bond with mode-0. The switch is Dell powerconnect. While > doing ftp, I am getting around 90-98MB/s for single process. > If I put 2 jobs together, the total reaches around > 150-160MBps. The question is, is this the maximum? Yes you are getting as much as you can expect. Bonding is generally for one server and many clients -- the sum of traffic to many clients may possibly exceed one Gbps, but one client (the other server in your example) will not. When you try two sessions from one client, you may get more than 1Gbps, depending on how the traffic gets switched between the two outbound NICs. Various bonding choices allow or prevent single client/multi-session traffic spread across the NICs. Most I ever did was 6 NICs bonded for serving numerous clients. Surprisingly it worked (it was not a Dell machine, tho). Used a Cisco switch. > > Or is it limited by my disk system? I am using PERC-6E with > MD1000 on one server and MD-3000 on other server. I would expect 100 to 120Mbyte/sec if your disk was not busy. "iostat -xk 5 500" and look at your disk. If it is 100% busy (the last column) your disk is maxed out. --John ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
PE1950 IPMI BMC appears to deliver junk to the serial port
Hello, All of our PE1950s (on two different) sites have problems with SoL... They have been set up for IPMI remote access and SoL using ipmitool. When SoL sessions are not active the BMC outputs junk characters from its serial connection (and thus into the OS-visible serial port UART) - this behaviour is always reproducible, and can be triggered by sending a few hundred bytes of characters from the OS to the BMC (e.g. OS boot messages etc.). Some relevant snippets from my notes on the issue: I am 99.9% sure that this is a firmware bug on the BMC, and not an OS or application software bug, since it also shows up prior to OS boot. "On Dell PowerEdge 1950s (BMC firmware version 2.37) - it has been observed on a number of different machines that: When IPMI SoL sessions are enabled, but NOT active, spurious characters are received by the serial UART from the BMC (on Linux device /dev/ttyS1). The problem also exists outside of Linux - these spurious characters have (on several occasions) interrupted the boot process - by sending character sequences which interrupt the normal automatic boot process of the BIOS and/or boot loader - as such IPMI SoL must be disabled on these systems for reliable operation - this leaves the systems in-question without a viable remote-access system for BIOS/boot/OS interventions etc." BMC settings are as follows: arundel:~# ipmitool sol info 1 Set in progress : set-complete Enabled : true Force Encryption: true Force Authentication: false Privilege Level : ADMINISTRATOR Character Accumulate Level (ms) : 50 Character Send Threshold: 220 Retry Count : 7 Retry Interval (ms) : 1000 Volatile Bit Rate (kbps): 57.6 Non-Volatile Bit Rate (kbps): 57.6 Payload Channel : 1 (0x01) Payload Port: 623 All baud rates are set to 57.6k / 8bit / no parity in Linux (Linux kernel and 'getty' processes). BTW, I administer Intel and Tyan IPMI v2.0 machines using identical software and the same IPMI SoL settings - without seeing these problems. I can arrange to supply a hex-dump of the received "junk" characters if that's useful. I'm also happy to execute arbitrary IPMI commands etc. etc. Thanks, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
DRAC5 SSL cert
I have two R900's with DRAC5's. I accidentally swapped the SSL certs when I installed them. Now http/https doesn't start up. Since http/https aren't up, I can't use racadm remotely. If I ssh to the DRAC, there isn't a 'racadm sslcertupload' command. Does anyone know of another way to replace the cert? I'd prefer not to have to do a 'racadm racresetcfg' and start over. --Chris - Chris Henderson Unix Administration Lead ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
server administrator syslog
I am configuring my machines to log to a central syslog server. Under Linux, Server Administrator is kind enough to report hardware problems etc to the syslog. I want to make syslogd only send these logs to the central server. I am not sure what facility is used for these alerts. Any ideas? Thank you! Ryan ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Switching to Ubuntu?
On Monday 02 November 2009 08:24:06 am Jeff wrote: [...] > I know Dell does not provide OMSA for Ubuntu, but I am aware of the > packages at ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sara-omsa/dists/dell/sara/ and have > found many how-to pages on getting it running. But what can you tell > me about practical experience with those packages? I prefer apt-based systems as well. The SARA packages work as advertised. Dell tech support is usually good about working with you anyway. Having said that, if you can stick with CentOS on the production machines you can save yourself some frustration. -- George Bourozikas ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
RE: Network Performance
Use Iperf or a similar tool to measure if the network is the bottleneck. Note that Iperfs UDP measurement is defaulting to 1Mbit/s traffic, so read the manpage before wondering why UDP performs so very slow compared to an out-of-the-box TCP measurement. Regards, Jens Dueholm Christensen Business Process and Improvement, Rambøll Survey IT From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Jestin Paul Sent: 3. november 2009 12:23 To: Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com Subject: Network Performance Hello All, What is the practical network speed on a 2 x 1Gbps channel bond between two servers. I have 2 x dell PowerEdge servers running SLES10SP2 and both connected with two Gigabit NIC in a bond with mode-0. The switch is Dell powerconnect. While doing ftp, I am getting around 90-98MB/s for single process. If I put 2 jobs together, the total reaches around 150-160MBps. The question is, is this the maximum? Or is it limited by my disk system? I am using PERC-6E with MD1000 on one server and MD-3000 on other server. If anyone got experience in this please suggest. Jestin Paul ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Network Performance
Hello All, What is the practical network speed on a 2 x 1Gbps channel bond between two servers. I have 2 x dell PowerEdge servers running SLES10SP2 and both connected with two Gigabit NIC in a bond with mode-0. The switch is Dell powerconnect. While doing ftp, I am getting around 90-98MB/s for single process. If I put 2 jobs together, the total reaches around 150-160MBps. The question is, is this the maximum? Or is it limited by my disk system? I am using PERC-6E with MD1000 on one server and MD-3000 on other server. If anyone got experience in this please suggest. Jestin Paul ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
