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Morten W. Petersen | 1 Oct 2006 05:55
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Problems with DRAC

Hi,

I have a problematic DRAC - whenever I try to use the Java
console through the webbrowser, it says something along the
lines of "Unable to connect to vKVM..."

Since that's happening, I thought I'd do a "racadm racreset"
on the server to reset the RAC, but then the following
message appears:

  racadm racreset:: transport failed

and using "racadm -i -r <IP> racreset" only results in a
"racadm:ERROR: authenication failed." even though I
know it is the correct username and password (the
login works for the web interface).

Anyone got suggestions on how I can fix this?

TIA,

Morten

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Rainer Traut | 2 Oct 2006 08:22
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Perc4DC FW update panics 2650 with EL4

Hi,

yesterday I tried to update six PE2650 with Perc4DC firmware 351X to 352B.
Four of them runinng EL3.8, two of them EL4.4.

In short:
The EL3 servers were updating fine, the EL4 servers both kernel paniced.
One El4 server crashed when collecting inventory, the other one while 
writing the firmware.

Thankfully I was able to recover both servers with the dos disk.
(driving sunday to the datacenter... :( )
Dell support promised to investigate further but fyi I believe there is 
something wrong with exactly this configuration.

Rainer

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Tom Brown | 2 Oct 2006 15:13

FC3 - OMSA - 6450

Hi

Does anyone know which version of OMSA would install onto this box 
running FC3?

thanks

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Tom Brown | 2 Oct 2006 15:49

Re: FC3 - OMSA - 6450


> Does anyone know which version of OMSA would install onto this box 
> running FC3?

for the record this one works fine

OMI-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-450-32-335_A00.tar.gz

thanks

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Friedrich Clausen | 2 Oct 2006 16:00
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Problems with OpenManage 4.5 after kernel update.

Hi,

I saw an inconclusive post at:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-September/027141.html

but I will now post my own symptoms.

I am have trouble starting OpenManage 4.5 after performing an upgrade on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 from U3 to U4. Some information:

Distro: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
Kernel: 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp
Hardware: PE2850
Arch: x86_64 (EM64T)
OM: 4.5 (from OMI-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-450-32-335_A00.tar.gz)

The reason we are running 4.5 is that 5.0 does not seem to have
pre-compiled kernel modules for required drivers. I have not yet had
time to compile them on one machine and then modify the installation
routine for 5.0 to include them. If the only solution is to upgrade to
5.0 then I will do so.

Here are the symptoms:

[root <at> server-test bin]# srvadmin-services.sh start
Starting Dell DRAC4 Service... /etc/init.d/racsvc: line 98:  6673
Segmentation fault      ${svcpfx}${ttyname} $RACSVC_OPTS >/dev/null 2>&1
                                                              [FAILED]
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
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Fred Skrotzki | 2 Oct 2006 16:51
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RE: Problems with OpenManage 4.5 after kernel update.

Have you included the following in the modules.conf file?

(from the http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml page, Tps and Tricks section)

On x8xx servers with 2.6.12 - 2.6.15 kernels, x86_64 architecture,
ipmi_si can't automatically find the KCS interface to the controller.
This is fixed in 2.6.16. Until then, put this into your
/etc/modprobe.conf file: 
options ipmi_si type="kcs" ports="0xca8" regspacings="4"

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To: linux-poweredge <at> dell.com
Subject: Problems with OpenManage 4.5 after kernel update.

Hi,

I saw an inconclusive post at:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-September/027141
.html

but I will now post my own symptoms.

I am have trouble starting OpenManage 4.5 after performing an upgrade on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 from U3 to U4. Some information:

Distro: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
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Marcus Williams | 2 Oct 2006 18:01
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PERC 4/SC write performance

Hi -

We recently bought a poweredge server with a PERC 4/SC card in it. The 
write performance under linux is abysmal (RAID 5/reiserfs) - its 
basically in the default configuration, is there anything I can change 
to bump the performance that wont blow away my drive configuration?

I'm willing to risk enabling the write-back cache as its on a UPS and 
has redundant PSUs but I cant work out if this will destroy anything. I 
tend to leave RAID setups well alone once they're working but I've 
always used s/w raid until this server.

Thanks

Marcus

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wolf2k5 | 2 Oct 2006 11:12
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Re: jumbo frames issue (9000 bytes MTU) / Dell Support Services: Incident # 1556692

Hi,

Nope, I never figured it out, I had to go back to standard MTU (1500 bytes).

Please let me know if you figure out the issue.

Thanks.

On 9/28/06, Roger Baron <rbaron <at> emailvision.com> wrote:
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> Dear sir,
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>
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> I happen to have the very same NFS hang problem you had with MTU=9000 with
> linux RHEL4 on a poweredge1855 blade w/ powerConnect5316M switch + NFS
> network appliance filer.
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> Was your problem eventually solved?
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> Thanks a lot.
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Friedrich Clausen | 2 Oct 2006 10:01
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Problems with OpenManage 4.5 after kernel update.

Hi,

I saw an inconclusive post at:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-September/027141.html

but I will now post my own symptoms.

I am have trouble starting OpenManage 4.5 after performing an upgrade on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 from U3 to U4. Some information:

Distro: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
Kernel: 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp
Hardware: PE2850
Arch: x86_64 (EM64T)
OM: 4.5 (from OMI-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-450-32-335_A00.tar.gz)

The reason we are running 4.5 is that 5.0 does not seem to have
pre-compiled kernel modules for required drivers. I have not yet had
time to compile them on one machine and then modify the installation
routine for 5.0 to include them. If the only solution is to upgrade to
5.0 then I will do so.

Here are the symptoms:

[root <at> server-test bin]# srvadmin-services.sh start
Starting Dell DRAC4 Service... /etc/init.d/racsvc: line 98:  6673
Segmentation fault      ${svcpfx}${ttyname} $RACSVC_OPTS >/dev/null 2>&1
                                                             [FAILED]
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
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Andrew Moore | 2 Oct 2006 16:38
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OT? PE2850 + 3 x PERC3Q + 12 x PV220S + reiserfs = sad machine

Hi.

Perhaps a little OT for poweredge, but it is all poweredge kit and I was
wondering if the PERC3/QC was the problem....

Simply put linux box crashes as I mount all the drives... (okay that sounds
too simple)

I have a linux 2.6.17 (FC5) PE 2850 with a pair of 3.x GHz CPUs (HT turned
on); 4GB in the machine.

3 PERC3/QC cards in the expansion chassis each card running 4 PV220S, 8
logical disks on each PV220S made up as a RAID5 consisting of 7 disks (300GB
disks throughout)

the filesystem on all these is reiserfs, moderate quantities of files but
essentially most arrays are full (1.7TB x 24)

I've recently gone from a total of 22 logical volumes to 24 logical volumes
and now the system will crash in a fairly fatal and nasty way (hard crash
non-redoverable fantasitlcally difficuly to workout what went wrong, remote
console is useless; the frame buffer is full of a stack printout(?) but not
clear on what/where. This occurs whenever I attempt to mount all the large
disks.

I have attempted to cycle through all the disks mounting and umounting them
with the hope that I can identify a bad reiserfs volume - no success, the
system is fine when a limited number of disks are mounted.

I have attempted to mount disks in different orders - no help
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