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 thre
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":
> ...
>> -Instal
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? I
On 01/11/10 14:47, jeffrey_l_mend...@dell.com wrote:
> Hi Tim and Robin,
>
> I believe you're referring to the ".BIN" self-contained update
> package. Based on customer feedback on this list and elsewhere, we
> made the yum-repo based firmware updates officially supported
> starting with OM 6.2 i
On 31/10/10 22:12, Arno van der Veen wrote:
> 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 warranty
On 12/10/10 19:35, Aaron McKinnon wrote:
> libcmpiCppImpl0-2.0.0Dell-1.2.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving
> problems
>--> libcmpiCppImpl0 conflicts with tog-pegasus
> Error: libcmpiCppImpl0 conflicts with tog-pegasus
I suspect one or both of two things:
1. you are trying to install an
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
On 07/10/10 10:08, Ruben Laban wrote:
>
> The tools itself aren't really the problem as omreport seems to be sufficient
> to
> collect the actual data. What I'm looking for is the fastest way to run
> omreport without having to install anything or even having an OS installed
> (hence netboot o
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 i
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 fa
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 des
On 10/09/10 09:36, i3D.net - Joep Gottlieb wrote:
> open the server, check the case plate you remove, it usually states the
> fans by number. (as it does for CPU's, RAM, disks etc.) (shouldn't
> state it as front/back, else OPMN/BMC should also state it as front/back)
I think the OP was rather h
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 07/09/10 02:01, Tim Connors wrote:
> because debian is a far better quality distribution than redhat (and thus
> centos)
Without wishing to start a distro war, that statement is simply not
correct. I'm not dissing debian - it is a great distro - but it's not
"far better quality" than RHEL. Ind
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 b
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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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
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
Av
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 lik
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 00:18, 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 in
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 polit
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 ma
On 16/07/10 05:45, TCPWave Customer Care wrote:
> Hi
>
> What's the best way to clone a Centos installation? I have a bunch of
> things that I have customized and I want to simplify the rollout to a
> few 1850s. The current server uses a hardware based RAID1. Disk swapping
> takes way too long and
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,
>
> s
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 y
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On 25/06/10 00:09, Brandon Ooi wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Robin Bowes
> wrote:
>> I believe this because dell-community is missing the i386 version of
>> libsmbios.
>>
>> See this thread:
>>
>> http://lists.us.d
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
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:
http:/
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 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
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 Je
On 02/06/10 08:33, Rainer Traut wrote:
> I'm a little bit stunned right now.
>
> All our servers have the repo config as stated here:
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository (1)
> (only the green supported ones)
>
> This configuration is broken for at least 5 days and you have just
> c
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 libsmbio
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
>
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
./Dell-OMSA-Indep-RHEL5
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 m
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 co
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
Hi,
We have 32 x PE1950, plus 34 x R410, and have another 42 R410 on order.
All servers have (the balance of) a 3-year warranty.
Each server has 4 x 146GB 2.5" SAS drives configured in RAID10.
As you might imagine, with that many spindles we get regular failures.
It's no biggie - we just create
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
On 25/03/10 01:30, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I manage 34 R410s and 32 PE1950s. All run CentOS 5.4 and are deployed
> with cobbler and managed with puppet, ie. they're all configured
> identically.
>
> I mirror the Dell repos with cobbler and deploy the appropriate yu
Hi,
I manage 34 R410s and 32 PE1950s. All run CentOS 5.4 and are deployed
with cobbler and managed with puppet, ie. they're all configured
identically.
I mirror the Dell repos with cobbler and deploy the appropriate yum repo
config files with puppet.
On the PE1950s, update_firmware runs just fin
On 18/03/10 03:06, Matt Domsch wrote:
> You want Deployment Toolkit (DTK). It's available on support.dell.com
> and ftp.dell.com/sysman/.
I have 42 R410 servers arriving imminently. They will have PERC 6/i
controllers with 4 disks configured for RAID5 as, for some reason, Dell
are no longer able
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
On 12/02/10 17:14, Cody Jarrett wrote:
> I installed the latest OMSA repo on my T110 running Centos 5.4 64bit.
> When I run the following: omreport chassis biossetup, I get the error
> below. Any ideas what I need to install to resolve this message?
>
> $ omreport chassis biossetup
> Error! NoBIOS
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.
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On 06/02/10 21:45, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Dameon Wagner wrote:
>
>> I've only been lurking on the list for a week or so, but after recent
>> experience buying some dell servers, and almost a MD1000 (backed out
>> of that because of the drive/hot-swap-tray availability issue) I
On 05/02/10 09:49, Arkadi Colson wrote:
> we are running debian on 4 of our PowerEdge R610 servers with OMSA
> installed on every machine. However on 1 server we get an error when
> asking for "Power Consumption Information" through the web interface:
> "Current probes not found".
>
> Has anyon
On 04/02/10 11:45, John Hodrien wrote:
> For interest, here's the output on an idle R610 2xE5520 8x2Gbyte 6x300Gbyte
> 10k
> SAS:
>
> # omreport chassis pwrmonitoring
When I try this I get:
# omreport chassis pwrmonitoring
Power Consumption Information
Error : Current probes not found
(see
Hi,
I use OpenNMS for monitoring - it automatically detects Dell OMSA data
and monitors/logs/graphs it. I'm using OMSA 6.2.0 on R410 machines.
I am getting temperature and system fan speed data but am not getting
any system power consumption information.
Indeed, if I look in OMSA I see:
Power C
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 does
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 quicktest=true
No matching device/test
Hi,
I'm running pediags under CentOS 5.4 x86_64 on an R410 with a Perc6/i
controller and 4 x SAS disks but it doesn't find them:
[r...@b034 ~]# cd /opt/dell/pediags/oldiags/bin
[r...@b034 bin]# ./pediags sasdevdiag --show
The device class requested is not present/enumerated.
Other classes work
On 27/01/10 14:40, Tim Small wrote:
> Bas van der Vlies wrote:
>>> While the OpenManage team is working to make more Linux-native
>>> firmware update utilities available, Lifecycle Controller is really
>>> quite slick, and there's no concern with having the "right" Linux
>>> environment to 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 de
Hi,
I just installed dell_ft_install on a PE1950 running CentOS 5.4 x86_64.
This failed:
yum install $(bootstrap_firmware)
So, I tried:
bootstrap_firmware -v
The output is listed at the end of this mail.
Any idea what the problem is?
R.
[r...@a033 yum.repos.d]# bootstrap_firmware -v
Checki
On 18/12/09 13:35, gagan_shres...@dell.com wrote:
> For R410, 'vmcli' utility should be used instead of 'racvmcli'.
>
>
> For details, please refer documentation at:
> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/idrac/idrac13mono
> /en/ug/html/racugc1e.htm#wp53555
Gagan,
Thanks, that
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 running
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 number. Presumably
> they can do th
On 19/11/09 15:20, SING Jack wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Thanks for revert on this , if we want to get other SAS controller,
> which brand and model that can recommended for Linux system. This time
> round we would like some real HW RAID instead fake RAID.
Jack,
We've just ordered a bunch of R410s wi
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?
>>
>
On 06/11/09 20:33, Stephen Dowdy wrote:
>
> I take the payload image after extracting from the .BIN and put it
> into my own BIOS update package that uses libsmbios bits to flash
> BIOS. (much lighter weight).
Stephen,
Would you mind sharing how you do that with me (us!) ?
I *think* that I've
On 06/11/09 10:08, Pavel Mateja wrote:
I installed a Debian lenny system and got no NIC support, that's ok,
backports solved the problem after installing linux-image-2.6.30 and
firmware-bnx2.
>
>> Uh oh, I'm about to configure a couple of racks of R410s with CentOS 5.4
>> - am I lik
On 06/11/09 09:09, Tim Small wrote:
> Fabio Catunda wrote:
>> I installed a Debian lenny system and got no NIC support, that's ok,
>> backports solved the problem after installing linux-image-2.6.30 and
>> firmware-bnx2.
>>
>> The question now is that I need to run Xen on this machine, now I'm
>
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 ne
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