On 15/11/10 20:11, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
On 2010-11-15 14:47, Ben wrote:
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Sean Dilda wrote:
A large number of people in the industry see 'LOM' and think 'Lights Out
Management'. As such, I think calling them lomX is very misleading. When I
first saw this thread, I
Hi Sreenath,
On 10/11/10 10:51, sreenath...@dell.com wrote:
Hi,
The firmware Yum repo was created in August 2010, and has not been updated.
Why not?
The next update December will carry latest versions of firmware and BIOS.
Why is the repo not updated when new updates are made available?
On 01/11/10 20:17, jeffrey_l_mend...@dell.com wrote:
On 01/11/10 19:01, Robin Bowes wrote:
I am already using those repos, however they are not working for
me.
Here's the output of update_firmware --yes:
...
-Installing dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 1.4.7Installation failed
On 31/10/10 22:12, Arno van der Veen wrote:
jeff_rei...@dell.com wrote:
Guys,
Just an FYI. I work in support , and if you modify the scripts , you
risk damaging your data , and do u think your firms would appreciate
your calling us , with a severity 1 , and at a data loss ?
You risk
On 12/10/10 09:18, Tino Schwarze wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:33:35PM -0500, Eugene Vilensky wrote:
What partition offset should one use when trying to align Windows
2003, 2008R2, or RHEL 5 partitions to PERC6i characteristics for best
performance?
Any multiple of your RAID volume's
On 29/09/10 05:47, spike_wh...@dell.com wrote:
When we blow a SAS 6/I controller on a R710 and replace the motherboard,
can we use mdadm or dmsetup to re-create our RAID 1 OS vol? How does
this work? Do we install one of the disks as the primary, then let it
rebuild the secondary? Or is it
On 23/09/10 13:05, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
hi
i have setup the yum repo for firmware in my R710 machine.
I m running centos 5.5
but when i run update_firmware --yes i got the following messages
Running updates...
/ Installing dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 2.1.9Installation failed for
On 14/09/10 10:46, Tim Small wrote:
On 14/09/10 02:32, Adam Nielsen wrote:
Mostly this seems to be caused by the disks being connected to an awful
hardware RAID controller, but I don't think Dell offer any servers using
the same onboard Intel SATA controllers that work really well on desktop
On 07/09/10 13:15, Michael Zoet wrote:
So I really do not understand the point of this discussion.
Michael,
The point of this discussion is that you get to see who has got their
head screwed on properly, and whose opinion you should take with a pinch
of salt in the future, ie. those who foam at
On 13/08/10 00:15, mcclnx mcc wrote:
we have DELL R900 with two MD1000 connect to it. The O.S. is Redhat 5.5
X86_64. DELL OPMN version 6.1.
recently I saw /var/log/messages have messages:
Aug 12 03:05:14 ORA03 Server Administrator: Storage Service EventID: 2278
The controller battery
On 10/08/10 11:02, Darius Jan Seroka wrote:
I had the same error on an m610 and r710, in fact I never had
firmware updates work since they were implemented.
That's reassuring... NOT!
C'mon Dell, let's have some updates that work for a change!
R.
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Hi,
I've just updated to 6.3 from 6.2 and am trying to update firmware.
I get the error listed below.
Any ideas what the problem is?
R.
[r...@b001 dell_dup]# update_firmware -y
Running system inventory...
Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
Checking BIOS - 1.1.5
On 05/08/10 20:40, Brett Delle Grazie wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 20:30 +0100, Brett Delle Grazie wrote:
http://www.opennms.org/ is my favourite.
Apologies - crossed threads, please ignore.
And OpenNMS is not Nagios based, it uses SNMP instead.
Still my favourite - works nicely out of the
On 03/08/10 11:46, Stroller wrote:
On 2 Aug 2010, at 22:11, Ken Nishimura wrote:
I assume that making a few large virtual disks (mostly segregated
by disk type and enclosure location) and using LVM to slice and dice
is the way to go?
I find the thought horrifying. I choose servers like the
On 23/07/10 00:02, David Hubbard wrote:
Has anyone had issues with R300's and the stock CentOS 5.5 x86_64 tg3
driver not auto negotiating properly? We use Foundry (aka Brocade)
switches and I have an R300 that insists on negotiating to 10-half, I
had to use ethtool to force it to 100-full.
On 20/07/10 00:01, Wiley Sanders wrote:
I am trying to resolve an issue with RHEL on a newly purchased R510 (a
botched RHEL4 to RHEL5 upgrade), I opened a ticket with RHN, and RHN is
saying support is vendor provided and to contact Dell and not RHN for
support issues.
Huh? (A polite way of
On 20/07/10 00:18, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
On 2010-07-19 23:10, Robin Bowes wrote:
I would imagine Dell support will be limited to RHEL runs on this
hardware. If you have any issues with kernel oops or other
hardware-related crashing then Dell may be interested in fixing it.
Not if it's
On 16/07/10 15:41, Chris Skretowski wrote:
They are now Dell T300 witch DRAC6, PERC6/I.
All of them will have RHEL 4.8
Thanks for your input guys! Going through DTK docs now...
If it wouldn't be for people who don't understand what RAID is, I think
it would be quicker to set them
On 29/06/10 13:44, Drew Weaver wrote:
Are there any decent open source Linux software that work well with Dell
servers that make it easy to catalog/inventory servers in a datacenter?
Essentially all we need to do is:
Take the server out of the box,
boot it via the network,
software
On 28/06/10 18:42, Simon wrote:
Greetings,
I know this is unsupported, but I'm trying to install osma on a fedora core
12 system.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
How about a bit more detail?
What did you do?
What happened?
What did you expect to happen?
What errors did you
[top -posting fixed]
On 25/06/10 00:09, Brandon Ooi wrote:
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Robin Bowes
robin-li...@robinbowes.com wrote:
I believe this because dell-community is missing the i386 version of
libsmbios.
See this thread:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge
On 23/06/10 18:51, Kipp, Jim wrote:
Hi
I am trying to load RHEL5.2 on a new R710 and RHEL is not seeing this
controller and its drives. I have a RAID 5 volume configured with a
size of ~270G.
Has anyone seen this issue and is there a resolution?
A similar question was answered on this
I believe this because dell-community is missing the i386 version of
libsmbios.
See this thread:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-May/042332.html
Any reason this is not yet fixed?
R.
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On 18/06/10 19:04, Ruslan Sivak wrote:
What are people using for monitoring? I saw that there was a Nagios
plugin, but I'm not familiar enough with nagios and didn't see any
documentation on getting the plugin to work.
Hi Ruslan,
I'm using OpenNMS for monitoring.
See these pages:
On 15/06/10 18:44, Seth Mos wrote:
Op 7-6-2010 22:55, Collins, Kevin L. schreef:
I'm contemplating the above combination for use as a NAS unit to be used
by (among other things) vmWare ESXi 4.0. I know there are
newer/faster/better things available, but these are the components I
have on hand
On 04/06/10 17:51, J. Epperson wrote:
On Fri, June 4, 2010 12:08, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
On 2010-06-04 15:42, Ron Croonenberg wrote:
it says that /dev/sda2 is an LVM volume
In case it isn't clear to you, BTW, this means that /dev/sda2 is NOT /.
?Does it?
Hmm, I queried that statement
On 02/06/10 10:23, Rainer Traut wrote:
I know, Robin, I read your post and your workaround.
The problem I have is that a - for years (!) working and still supported
(1) - configuration is suddenly broken, without announcement.
Yes, that is not good and needs fixing ASAP.
And citing Jeff
On 31/05/10 20:21, Robin Bowes wrote:
On 31/05/10 12:48, Nicole Hähnel wrote:
Hi,
I have the same problem on all of our el5 x86_64 servers
Me too.
# pwd
/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror
# find . -name *libsmbios* | grep 2.2.19
./Dell-OMSA-Indep-RHEL5-x86_64/firmware-tools/libsmbios
On 01/06/10 22:41, jeffrey_l_mend...@dell.com wrote:
I see now,
The OMSA repository has libsmbios 2.2.19. Both i386 and x86_64. This
is because OMSA is 32-bit only and there is also some natively
compiled stuff that uses libsmbios.
The software/community repo has the latest libsmbios
On 31/05/10 12:48, Nicole Hähnel wrote:
Hi,
I have the same problem on all of our el5 x86_64 servers
Me too.
# pwd
/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror
# find . -name *libsmbios* | grep 2.2.19
./Dell-OMSA-Indep-RHEL5-x86_64/firmware-tools/libsmbios-2.2.19-10.1.el5.i386.rpm
On 20/05/10 00:35, Wiley Sanders wrote:
Is this just a limitation on the preconfigured RAID configs I can order,
a licensing restriction, or a true limitation on the number of volumes
that the H700 can support?
I think it's the former.
We bought a load of R410s with 4 disks in RAID10.
We
Jon,
Have you used DTK successfully with Cobbler?
If so, would you mind sharing how you did it? Just an overview would be
fine so I can get my head round what to do.
For some reason, Dell wouldn't deliver the latest batch of R410s
configured with RAID10, they came with RAID5, so I will have 42
On 20/11/09 11:02, Robin Bowes wrote:
On 20/11/09 10:38, Mark Whidby wrote:
Adam Nielsen wrote:
I'd still prefer a sticker on the back of the case though :-)
I think that's an option Dell provides. All out Dell desktop PCs come with
a sticker with service tag, model, MAC address, order
On 12/04/10 16:39, Tapas Mishra wrote:
Thanks for help by the time I read your message I made it work.
There's a lesson to be learned there...
R.
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On 01/04/10 00:59, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
If you don't mention that the failed drive is a one-year item from Dell,
it is covered by your 3-year warranty.
Er, I wouldn't think so - all Dell items have unique serial numbers.
They will know which items have 3-year support and which have only
On 25/03/10 13:54, jeffrey_l_mend...@dell.com wrote:
Do you have the firmware repo configured? It is obsoleted by the OM
6.2 version of the hardware repo, this is where you are finding
1.1.5. Go ahead and remove the firmware repo. To get all the
updates, follow the instructions on the repo
On 11/03/10 12:53, Nick Lunt wrote:
Hi
DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat keeps saying I need to
install the console re-direction plugin. I click yes, install it,
restart firefox, but it says I need to install the console re-direction
plugin again.
Firmware Version=
We don't use flash disks in our iDRAC6 enterprise cards.
Instead, we mount a netboot or CD ISO image remotely and boot from the
virtual floppy or cdrom.
You can do this using the GUI I think in the web interface, but we do
this on the command line of an admin server in the same DC as the
machine
Some of you may be interested to read this:
http://yo61.com/dell-omsa-on-centos-5-4-x86_64-no-controllers-found-error.html
Let me know if it works for you.
R.
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On 28/01/10 17:23, Robin Bowes wrote:
On 28/01/10 17:09, gido_baum...@dell.com wrote:
should be option raidctrl
./pediags raidctrl --run quicktest=true results.txt
see f.e. http://www.tbaumi.de/blog/?p=186
Hrm, that doesn't work either:
[r...@b034 bin]# ./pediags raidctrl --run
On 21/01/10 14:52, jeffrey_l_mend...@dell.com wrote:
Running IE Submodule for /usr/libexec/dell_dup/dell_ie_bmc-1.0.8
Plugin command is bmcie.sh -xml inv.xml Output file is inv.xml
Plugin timeout is 300 output from the cmd was: Starting Systems
Management Device Drivers: Starting dell_rbu:
Hi,
We have a rack of R410s which have no optical drive.
I generally use PXE boot to install CentOS, but we want to try vyatta on
a couple of servers and I've not able to fix a PXE boot from the ISO image.
So, I thought I'd mount the ISO from another server using racvmcli.
The server is
On 16/11/09 06:07, Stephen Dowdy wrote:
Robin Bowes wrote, On 11/15/2009 04:43 PM:
One of the installed files is payload/FW612II.rom. Is this the PERC
firmware ROM that should be flashed? If so, how can I flash it from the
(CentOS 5.4) command line?
Thanks for any info you can share
Hi,
Can anyone point me at a document that provides an overview of OMSA and
all it's components?
I'm installing on ~35 1950 servers in one DC and the same qty of R410s
in another DC. I'm using OpenNMS for monitoring and I'd like to
integrate with that as much as possible.
I've mirrored the
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