We recently purchased a license for using the Linux Agent on a number of dell
servers (the software was also purchased from dell).
We have been using an old version of BE in our Dublin office for years, and it
uses Unix Agent V4.5
However the version installed in our BLR office is the new BE
Ive been mucking about with nagios for the last few months. I was looking at
op5 (ninja+merlin) and it looks nice, but to incorporate graphing etc, it seems
you either need to hack the cfg files or purchase the paid version.
From what I can see these features are included in opsview and
I have a PE2850, running RHEL5.4, with a two port intel card in it. One port
from both onboard and PCI NIC connect to the network in an active-backup bond.
Yesterday at about 2pm we had a broadcast storm on one of the switches, and
eth0 failed over to eth3. Everything was running fine (I didn't
Yesterday a RHEL5 server rebooted on me in India. However, there was no one
logged in as root (and no sudo permissions), and there was no entries in
Operating System, OMSA or DRAC logs. I decided to go have a look at the
controller log and I saw these entries:
04/21 11:50:52: MPT_Rec: INQ
in real time, the read/write speeds, and whether there is bottlenecks - eg with
the network to the SAN.
Thanks for all the help
B
-Original Message-
From: shyam_i...@dell.com [mailto:shyam_i...@dell.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:51 PM
To: Brian O'Mahony; cri...@erad.com; linux-powere
Im connecting a PE2850 to a Equalogic SAN, using multipath. I have a PCI NIC
with one connection to the SAN and one from the onboard controller too. The SAN
is ona different network, and is at IP 10.10.20.10.
Here is the output from the multipath -ll
[r...@ccvobtest2850 ~]# multipath -ll
Ping to san ip and yanking a cable
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- Original Message -
From: Charles Riley cri...@erad.com
To: Brian O'Mahony
Sent: Wed Mar 31 18:34:12 2010
Subject: Re: Help with multipath failover
How are you determining
I have a PE2850 with two connections to the SAN, with multipathing set up:
[r...@ccvobtest2850 network-scripts]# multipath -ll
DubSanGrp01VolCC (36090a048d03f308d51b1f47c30a6) dm-18 EQLOGIC,100E-00
[size=500G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][active]
\_
://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html
-Original Message-
From: Eugene Vilensky [mailto:evilen...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:52 PM
To: Brian O'Mahony
Cc: linux-poweredge@dell.com
Subject: Re: RHEL 5.3 Multipathing question
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Brian O'Mahony
I am setting up a RHEL5.3 machine connected to an iSCSI SAN (PS6000). The
machine is a PE2850. I have two onboard network ports and an Intel NIC with two
ports. One from each is connected to our lan, and the other on each is
connected to our SAN network, which is segregated from everything
: Reverse DNS lookup syslog (Debian 4.0)
On 2010-02-15 10:22, Brian O'Mahony wrote:
Not possible with 600+ machines in different locations around the world. MAC
reservations for clients is not an option here.
Only 600+? Of course it's possible. The only legitimate reason to use
non-static assignment
11:10 PM
To: linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: Reverse DNS lookup syslog (Debian 4.0)
On 2010-02-12 14:58, Brian O'Mahony wrote:
As our domain use DHCP for the windows clients, when I go back a few
days later, the syslog entries are close to useless to mea s the IP may
have
Correct me if im wrong, but the way I understood it was:
Client connects to server, asks server to run application running on port 2401
{cvspserver}. Syslogd traps this request with an entry to syslog with the
connect string. Simultaneously to this request logging, runcvs kicks off the
actual
FYI all runcvs has is :
menasor:/etc# cat /usr/local/bin/runcvs
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/cvs \
-T /cvs/tmp \
--allow-root=/cvs/AppDev \
--allow-root=/cvs1/Temp \
pserver
So I don't think it's the service that is being called either...
From: Brian O'Mahony
Sent: Friday, February 12
Reminds me of my campus' IT urban folklore about the memory upgrade in an
old GX360 big iron that used to run here - where IBM sold campus the upgrade
and sent a team to flip the DIP switch to ENABLE it since it was already
installed... this is just as predatory.
Have a IBM Z890 here and
I also tell them that it's a production server that we cannot afford to bring
down / interfere with (which they generally are tbf)
B
-Original Message-
From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Rahul Nabar
Sent: 21 January 2010 22:50
Thanks for the input Matthew. I was assuming that was what the case was.
B
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- Original Message -
From: Matthew Geier matt...@acfr.usyd.edu.au
To: Brian O'Mahony; linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com
linux-powere
Im having further issues with the test box I have connected to the SAN.
I have assigned 500Gb of space to my PE2850. I have the SAN on a separate
network, and after installing the iSCSI initiator, I can see the device
I forgot to mention that the created volumes show in the system-config-lvm
screen. They show up with no filesystem in properties and when I try to format
them, the complain that the device is missing.
From: Brian O'Mahony
Sent: 07 December 2009 14:38
Subject: Further SAN issues with RHEL4
Connecting up a rhel4u6 box to one of the SANs here and im seeing some issues
with authentication.
If I disable chap, and allow connections from the pe2850 im using ofr testing,
everything is fine, and I can see the disk and create logical volumes,
filesystems, mount etc.
My problem is once I
Will look it up. Google didn't return anything except an issue with HP blades.
Thanks for the info.
B
This is a known error, and there is a KB article for this in the
Equallogic Support pages. Do a search for Initiator tried to bypass
the security phase but we cannot. on
The solution is to
I am setting up a 2850 to do some testing for moving our code repositories over
to SAN storage. I have a pe2850 with two onboard NICs and a dual port PCI nic.
All four ports are coming up as Intel e1000 ports. Is there any way of telling
from inside the OS which exact port eth0,1,2,3 actually
: linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: NICs in RHEL / PE2850
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Brian O'Mahony wrote:
I am setting up a 2850 to do some testing for moving our code repositories
over to SAN storage. I have a pe2850 with two onboard NICs and a dual port
PCI nic. All four ports
Sorry this is OT, but I cant find an answer on google.
I have a remote PE2850, with a split backplane. I need to reinstall this
machine, but don't have anyone on site to take the daughter card out. Can this
be done through the BIOS / PERC Controller BIOS?
Regards
B
The information in
This morning (about 10:58) we had a Kernel Panic on our production CVS server.
The errors were
CPU4: Machine Check Exception 0004
CPU5: Machine Check Exception 0004
Bank0: 135
Bank1: 135
Bank2: 135
Kernel Panic - not syncing : CPU context corrupt
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