Ben wrote:
Having thought about this some more, I think the idea is sound. But the
name needs work. Because of the overloading of the acronym LOM I propose
you change it to NIC On Motherboard or nomX (-:
Another suggestion from an IT colleague of mine was Motherboard Ethernet
or methX.
Ben Gordy writes:
EDAC is a kernel level driver, and it's talking directly to the chipset,
reading registers, and then just dumping out raw register values. When it
accesses these read-once registers they get cleared so no information will be
collected/logged by the Dell ESM. Without
cgm wrote:
The ipmitool from Dell repos also decode the DIMMs etc (like OMSA does)
ipmitool delloem sel list
This is the DELL patched ipmitool, I suggest get the rpm from (or navigate
up for some RH version close to your linux distro )
Jefferson Ogata wrote:
** First thing you should do in BMC setup is reset to default. The BMCs
often ship with a weird non-default setting that will cause lots of
serial port feedback if you try to run a getty on the serial console.
Rahul Nabar replied:
Is it possible to do this step in an
Jefferson Cowart wrote:
The recommendations I've seen are to avoid using /dev/sdx for exactly this
reason. Instead you can use either file system labels or otherwise persistent
names generated by udev based on parameters that won't change.
Another (better?) solution is to use LVM logical
You wrote:
/opt/dell/toolkit/bin/syscfg --conred
The option 'conred' is not available or cannot be configured
through software.
The mechanism for setting console redirection is different for various
Dell server architectures - the one you used is for older (x850 - 8th
gen) servers. You
I asked:
The syscfg utility provides a mechanism to change the default boot
order, but I would like (for security reasons) to disable boot from USB
or CD-ROM (I can turn off PXE boot from the NICs).
Mahaveer_M replied:
Check the OMSA command
omconfig chassis biossetup attribute=bootorder
The syscfg utility provides a mechanism to change the default boot
order, but I would like (for security reasons) to disable boot from USB
or CD-ROM (I can turn off PXE boot from the NICs). I don't want to use
a BIOS system password (as these are servers and need to be able to
reboot
Ali Tayarani writes:
When I run update_firmware in a kickstart postscript, the updates claim to
install, but after reboot the firmware hasn't changed. Yet, when I run the
same commands from the CLI after first boot, the firmware updates and stays
updated.
We install a number of firmware
Orion Poplawski writes:
I was able to fix by downloading
http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios to
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios.
I'm curious if you found having the firmware repository installed
successfully on Fedora 13 useful in any way. In my experience
Jon Sabo writes:
Starting at line 218 of bin/start-stage3.sh inside the SA.2 initrd file.
...
Could the above code snippet be included in future DTK releases so I
don't have to keep editing these files please?
And in the very unlikely chance that somebody actually does that,
perhaps that
Jonathan Sabo wrote:
It would be really nice if there were getty's running on ttyS0 and
ttyS1 and those were added to the the etc/securetty file as well.
Lots of people use serial consoles to manage their servers. I do.
Amen to that. And while we're on the subject of even more remotely
Thanks, Steven, for that helpful script (ral-superinv). I found it very
useful as an source of ideas about getting firmware revision data on our
Dell PowerEdge servers. I am wondering if you or anyone on this list
can suggest a way to determine the firmware revision of the Unified
Server
I wrote:
The only approach that I can see might be to remove a drive from the
RAID-5 (making it into a RAID-0),
Stroller replied:
Removing a drive from a RAID5 does not make it a RAID0 - it makes it a
degraded RAID5, BTW.
It depends on how you do the removal. Using the MegaCli
Cody Jarrett asks:
I [guess] what I'm looking for. I'm just wondering if there is a lighter
weight utility or way to check the status of mainly just this item (AC Power
Recovery Mode).
As I wrote recently on this list:
Get the syscfg command from the Dell DTK
John Heim writes:
I hope this is not too far off topic (maybe its considered on topic [I
hope]).
Makes a nice change from the third-party drives thread :-)
I think we can get a machine with a quad core, 32 Gb of RAM, and 300 Gb disk
for under $6000. But I'm confused about disk. I would
Nathan Milford asks:
Anyone ever find a way to configure PERC from a Kickstart script?
Yes, and it is possible, but with limitations.
Stephen Dowdy replied:
I've got a SUSE SLES10 deployment DVD (and USB key) ...
I do that before the AutoYast autoconfiguration instead of during it
I'm
Ryan writes:
The command:
./omconfig chassis frontpanel lcdindex=1 config=custom text=txt
The result:
Error! Invalid LCD Index.
You don't need to use OMSA to set the LCD; you can use syscfg from the DTK
(http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=R240491),
or the
Jefferson Ogata writes:
PERCs up to and including PERC 4 (the AMI/LSI, not Adaptec), use the
older megaraid driver.
PERC 5/i, 5/E, and 6/E use megaraid_sas.
PERC 6/i uses mptsas (i.e. the standard LSI Fusion driver).
PERC 6/i uses the same megaraid_sas driver as the 6/E. It is the SAS
Shannon Gray wrote:
We just bought some PE R610's with iDRAC6 express and it looks like racadm
does not work, although I could be missing something...
# racadm getsysinfo
NOTE:
This Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller does not support RACADM
commands.
Please contact Dell Customer
Hi Jefferson,
I usually see you on the tcpdump-workers list, but as it happens we are
apparently both on this list, and what's more, have both run into this
problem.
You write:
Boot is fine; I have access to the console over IPMI/SOL during boot,
all the way to getting an agetty login
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