Nick Lunt | 16 May 2013 09:32

Dell dset install error

Hi folks

dell-dset-lx32-3.4.0.137.bin on RHEL 5.3 x86

[root <at> rhel5.3 /stage]# sh dell-dset-lx32-3.4.0.137.bin 
install.sh: line 350: `DSET2.2PreCheck': not a valid identifier

Anyone found a fix for this?

I went to 'previous version' on http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/555/DriverDetails?driverId=P3W03 and there are none.

Thanks
Nick .

 
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Aaron W | 15 May 2013 23:00
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Current vendor mode syntax for gen 12 servers

What is the current incantation to get a root on the gen 12 enterprise idracs?

Previous versions it was "util mode -set vendor"

Why?  debugging memory leak on a particular release.  I am aware of all the reasons I should not know or use this.  Reply individually if you would like.


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Jonathan Barber | 14 May 2013 18:07
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Problem with install syscfg via yum on SL 6.4

When I try to install syscfg via yum (on Scientific Linux 6.4) I get the error:
"""
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 8150ff82: NOKEY
Retrieving key from http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
Retrieving key from
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios

The GPG keys listed for the "Dell OMSA repository - Hardware
independent" repository are already installed but they are not correct
for this package.
Check that the correct key URLs are configured for this repository.
"""

The RPM that yum wants to install is from this URL:
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh60_64//DTK/syscfg-4.2.0-4.2.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

and my yum config for the repo has the following keys configured:
gpgkey=http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
       http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios

which are correct as far as I can tell.

Am I doing something stupid or is the syscfg package improperly signed?

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Brent Kimberley | 14 May 2013 15:38
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Re: RAID 0 vs RAID x

Having witnessed spectacular raid 5 and raid 6+h/s failures, pick a raid scheme which fails well. ;-)
Nick Lunt | 14 May 2013 14:10

iDRAC 7 Express capabilities

Hi folks

we have purchased some servers with iDRAC 7 Express, however from the documentation I cannot find out if the iDRAC 7 Express supports connecting to the server when the server is powered off, so we can power it on and watch it boot etc all from the iDRAC 7 Express.

If anyone can confirm this I would appreciate it, and a pointer to the relevant documentation would be a great help.

Many thanks
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SilverTip257 | 14 May 2013 02:13
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Re: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 108, Issue 10


Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 10:26:11 -0400
From: Dan Pritts <danno <at> umich.edu>
Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Adding a new HDD to an existing RAID 0
        virtual disk
To: "Datta, Samik (Samik)" <samik.datta <at> alcatel-lucent.com>
Cc: "linux-poweredge <at> dell.com" <linux-poweredge <at> dell.com>
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RAID0 makes perfect sense with any number of N disks.    "blocks" in the
traditional sense aren't spread out - "stripes" are.

Agreed, having three drives in a raid0 is a valid configuration.
 

with a "stripe width" of 128k, for instance, you'd have 0-127k on disk0,
128-255k on disk2, 256-383k on disk3, .... (N*128-1 through N*128-1 +
128k) on disk N.

Your survivability goes down with each additional disk, of course - lose
one disk and you lose it all.

That's striping (raid0) for you.  No redundancy whatsoever which is absolutely not a good idea for a system or data you do not want to lose...
 

None of this answers whether your PERC can re-align a RAID0 stripe onto
a third disk, of course, and to that I do not know the answer.

And I don't know either.  To date I've always needed redundancy and used raid1, raid5, or raid10 arrays.

If the OP has another system with the same or similar raid controller he could set up a test system.  Of course the OP should back up all the data in expectation of the worst to begin with.
 

I do know that whatever PERC (H700? H710?) I got recently can't do the
equivalent operation on a RAID10, so I'm guessing it can't do RAID0
either, but I'm not sure.

I definitely expect growth of raid0s to be supported - but not shrunk.

As far as I've seen, raid10 arrays can't be grown on any system.
I've seen this with some older Dell PERC controllers and software raid.
This may change in the future, but I've come to the conclusion that growing raid10 arrays is just not supported.
 

If you just want the additional space, you could easily append the
additional disk via LVM (assuming you're using LVM).

True, but the single disk becomes a bottleneck once the raid0 stripe has been filled.
 

Datta, Samik (Samik) wrote:
> Dear Stroller,
> I was thinking stripes numbered 3k goes to disk 0, 3k+1 to disk 1, and 3k+2 to disk 2. But, it looks silly to perform a (mod 3) operation!
>
> You may be right; RAID 0 with 3 disks may not make sense.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces <at> dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces <at> dell.com] On Behalf Of Stroller
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 5:11 PM
> To: linux-poweredge <at> dell.com
> Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Adding a new HDD to an existing RAID 0 virtual disk
>
>
> On 13 May 2013, at 09:37, Datta, Samik (Samik) wrote:
>> I am trying to add a new HDD to an existing RAID 0 virtual disk (consisting of 2 HDD).
>> If you think it is possible to do, please guide me through the steps. I am using a PERC R700 controller.
>
>
> Your current RAID0 array consists of 2 disks, as is usual.
>
> Each disk in your RAID0 contains half of each block, so that the data is read faster.
>
> What do you want the third disk to do?
>
> I don't believe RAID0 with 3 disks (each with one-third of a block?) is a thing.
>
> Stroller.
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Datta, Samik (Samik | 13 May 2013 10:37
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Adding a new HDD to an existing RAID 0 virtual disk

Hello All,

I am trying to add a new HDD to an existing RAID 0 virtual disk (consisting of 2 HDD).

If you think it is possible to do, please guide me through the steps. I am using a PERC R700 controller.

 

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Soorej_Ponnandi | 8 May 2013 13:18
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Re: OpenManage 7.2.1 yum repository posted

Hi,

This is expected. The srvadmin rpms is taken from 7.2.0, the only change is firmware updates for 7.2.1.

Thanks,
Soorej

-----Original Message-----
From: Gore, Santosh 
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:45 PM
To: Ponnandi, Soorej
Subject: FW: [Linux-PowerEdge] OpenManage 7.2.1 yum repository posted

fyi
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of vincent <at> cojot.name
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 5:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] OpenManage 7.2.1 yum repository posted

Hello,

Just a quick question: is that considered 'normal' that the rpm packages from 7.2.1 still bear '7.2.0' as
the package version? Or did I do something wrong?
Here's what I got after I bootstrapped 7.2.1:

$ rpm -qa srvadm\*
srvadmin-hapi-7.2.0-4.237.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-ominst-7.2.0-4.459.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-storage-7.2.0-4.528.6.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-racadm5-7.2.0-4.3.426.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-omilcore-7.2.0-4.822.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-base-7.2.0-4.9.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-realssd-7.2.0-4.531.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-deng-7.2.0-4.183.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-storelib-7.2.0-4.525.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-isvc-7.2.0-4.325.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-argtable2-7.2.0-4.2.2.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-omacore-7.2.0-4.459.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-storelib-sysfs-7.2.0-4.1.2.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-omacs-7.2.0-4.459.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-smcommon-7.2.0-4.528.6.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-sysfsutils-7.2.0-4.1.2.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-omcommon-7.2.0-4.459.1.el6.x86_64
srvadmin-xmlsup-7.2.0-4.458.1.el6.x86_64

Thank you,

Vincent

On Mon, 6 May 2013, Srinivas_G_Gowda <at> Dell.com wrote:

> Dennis,
> We had a few mail threads on how to get around this issue until Dell comes up with an OM version that supports
changes made in RHEL6.4 pertaining to IPMI modules.
>
> Once such solution is to install the OpenIPMI rpm that is provided by 
> RH/vendor
>
> $ yum -y install OpenIPMI
>
> and then try to restart the srvadmin services
>
> $ /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh start
>
>
> That should start the services successfully.
>
>
> Thanks,
> G
>
> ______________________________________
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 
> [dennisml <at> conversis.de]
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 4:50 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] OpenManage 7.2.1 yum repository posted
>
> On 06.05.2013 12:08, Bradley Radjoo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've found this solution provided by redhat :
>>
>> https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/332833
>
> What is the solution? The Page your Link points to is not public.
>
> Regards,
>   Dennis
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Brent Kimberley | 6 May 2013 20:07
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Broadcom NIC optimization

Hi,
How do you maximize UDP performance for Broadcom NICs on PowerEdge servers?   I'm having difficulty
exceeding 15% utilization at 1gbps.  (I have seen a lot of conflicting statements.)

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Question on bootstrap script and if repo/mirrors are current

>uname -a
Linux 2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 23 19:29:00 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


> getSystemId
Libsmbios version:      2.2.27
Product Name:           PowerEdge C6145
Vendor:                 Dell Inc.
BIOS Version:           3.0.0
System ID:              0x04E3
Service Tag:
Express Service Code:   0
Asset Tag:
Property Ownership Tag:


> omreport system version
Version Report
---------------------
Main System Chassis
---------------------
Name    : BIOS
Version : 3.0.0
Name    : AST2050
Version : 1.11.110
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Software
----------
Name    : CentOS
Version : release 6.4 (Final) Kernel 2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64)
Name    : Dell Server Administrator
Version : 7.2.0


When I enable epel repository today and did a Yum update I was surprised to find a newer version of firmware-addon-dell from epel then what is being provided by the Dell repo
Here is what I have installed

>rpm -qa --last|grep firmware
firmware-addon-dell-2.2.2-4.5.15.el6.x86_64   Mon 22 Apr 2013 11:52:43 AM EDT


>yum info  firmware-addon-dell
Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: bay.uchicago.edu
 * extras: mirror.liberty.edu
 * rpmforge: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
Installed Packages
Name        : firmware-addon-dell
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.2.2
Release     : 4.5.15.el6
Size        : 185 k
Repo        : installed
From repo   : dell-omsa-indep
Summary     : A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for Dell systems
License     : GPLv2+ or OSL 2.1
Description : The firmware-addon-dell package provides plugins to firmware-tools which enable
            : BIOS updates for Dell system, plus pulls in standard inventory modules
            : applicable to most Dell systems.


running yum update, lists the newer package from epel
---------------------------------SNIP-------------------------------
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 0:2.2.2-4.5.15.el6 will be updated
---> Package firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 0:2.2.9-1.el6 will be an update
--------------------------------------------------------------------


Dell has the 2.2.9 , and 2.2.2 seems very old



Should I use the latest, even though not officially provided by Dell suggested repo?

Is their a different dell repo I should be using?


-- Shane


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Gopala_Rao | 3 May 2013 14:54
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Issue wirh removable media in RHEL 6.2

Hi Team,

 

I have dell Power edge R820 server with RHEL 6.2 installed on it.

 

The issue is DVD drive is getting detected in Dmesg logs but  fails to read the contents of the media (DVD/CD ).

 

I have swapped both Drive and media to other server and works fine and tried with different media and drive in the current server but no go.

 

Does anyone experienced this issue ever and appreciate any help on this issue.

 

Thanks and Regards

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