Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC
On 22 April 2013 20:25, Rich rerc...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: What NIC does the machine have? My solution on Rx10 with the BCM NICs was to grab the bnx driver blob from Joyent [ https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/tree/master/overlay/generic/kernel/drv/amd64/bnx] and throw that in /kernel/drv/amd64/bnx, bootadm update-archive, and reboot. The BMC works great with that driver loaded and not the stock one. [I have a ticket about this for Dell R815s - https://www.illumos.org/issues/1552 ] Thanks for posting this. I also have a T610, and I've just been leaving the bnx interface unplumbed. Not having tested with any other OSes, I wasn't sure if it was even supposed to work. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC
From: Kris Henriksson [mailto:kt...@cornell.edu] I've been having a long-standing issue with using the iDRAC on my server with OpenIndiana, and I thought before giving up completely, I could try asking the mailing list. The problem is that the iDRAC is completely inaccessible while OpenIndiana is running. The system is a Dell PowerEdge T610, with Dell iDRAC 6 Express. If I run Linux on it, the iDRAC can be accessed just fine, and before OpenIndiana has started booting, I can access it, but with OI running it is inaccessible. The DRAC shares a physical network port with the OS, but has a separate MAC address and independent network traffic. I've seen that before. Got over it... I forget precisely how ... I think I had to go into BIOS, and disable the first NIC. This makes it inaccessible to the OS, but not inaccessible to the iDRAC. Then, obviously, connect two separate ethernet cables. One for the management interface, and one for the OS. Also, if you ping monitor the OS and the iDRAC... It is normal to see the iDRAC disappear at certain moments during the boot process. So don't assume it's failed the moment ping begins to fail. Wait for the OS to come up completely, and perhaps a minute longer. Oh yeah ... This might be separate, but the built-in broadcom NIC was never stable in solaris 10 / opensolaris. Symptom was a weird sort of black-screen lockup while still responding to ping, which occurred approx once a week. We made this problem go away by buying an add-on Intel server NIC. So it's distinctly possible, that the actual iDRAC solution is to disable both the broadcom ethernets in BIOS (use only by iDRAC) and only use the Intel NIC in the OS. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC
Oh. I see now, Rich's solution about updated driver. That sounds better. ;-) -Original Message- From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:34 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: RE: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC From: Kris Henriksson [mailto:kt...@cornell.edu] I've been having a long-standing issue with using the iDRAC on my server with OpenIndiana, and I thought before giving up completely, I could try asking the mailing list. The problem is that the iDRAC is completely inaccessible while OpenIndiana is running. The system is a Dell PowerEdge T610, with Dell iDRAC 6 Express. If I run Linux on it, the iDRAC can be accessed just fine, and before OpenIndiana has started booting, I can access it, but with OI running it is inaccessible. The DRAC shares a physical network port with the OS, but has a separate MAC address and independent network traffic. I've seen that before. Got over it... I forget precisely how ... I think I had to go into BIOS, and disable the first NIC. This makes it inaccessible to the OS, but not inaccessible to the iDRAC. Then, obviously, connect two separate ethernet cables. One for the management interface, and one for the OS. Also, if you ping monitor the OS and the iDRAC... It is normal to see the iDRAC disappear at certain moments during the boot process. So don't assume it's failed the moment ping begins to fail. Wait for the OS to come up completely, and perhaps a minute longer. Oh yeah ... This might be separate, but the built-in broadcom NIC was never stable in solaris 10 / opensolaris. Symptom was a weird sort of black-screen lockup while still responding to ping, which occurred approx once a week. We made this problem go away by buying an add-on Intel server NIC. So it's distinctly possible, that the actual iDRAC solution is to disable both the broadcom ethernets in BIOS (use only by iDRAC) and only use the Intel NIC in the OS. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC
On 2013-04-22 22:01, Kris Henriksson wrote: Outstanding! I do have the BCM NIC, and trying the driver you mentioned works like a charm. I've updated the bug you referenced to say that it also affects my system. Hmmm... I think I should try that sometime. For historic sake: we have a Sun Fire X2100M2 in our office zoo, which also has a bge port shared with its remote-management card, another bge port, and a couple of lousy nge ports which can behave strangely even by themselves. Basically, this leaves the system with one reliable port out of four preinstalled - the other bge ;) Sometimes we did have connections lost to the RSC in cases of heavy IO on the port from the OS, losses of link to RSC during server reset, etc. Some reconfiguration of port usage and switch port to try and avoid resets did help - but there are just that, workarounds that need to be remembered to keep in place ;) Jim ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Logwatch equivalent...
Hi, is there a logwatch equivalent under openindiana? Or, what do people usually setup to get daily server status by mail? Thx, JD ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Pounding on well trod ground..
Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com writes: Once I have a running install, is the syntax for the packages still something like REPONAME/dev? sudo pkg search subversion sudo pkg install subversion (or whatever) I probably phrased poorly. What I'm asking there is once the OS is installed and working. If I want a software package using the gui software management tool, and I want to keep up with the development version ... we used to have the name of the repo and the dev directory after plugged into the software tool. Something like: REPONAME/dev So I'm asking for the address to use with the gui software tool? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Logwatch equivalent...
Can you explain further? Did logwatch work for you previously on OpenIndiana, then stop? Logwatch is written in Perl, and should run on any Unix, or Unix clone with Perl installed. Jerry On 04/23/13 09:01 AM, John Doe wrote: Hi, is there a logwatch equivalent under openindiana? Or, what do people usually setup to get daily server status by mail? Thx, JD ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
