Hi all,

I have been given a Dell PowerEdge 2650 to configure. Sucessfully installed Fed Core 2 (yes, I know FC3 is out!) and everything is happy with regard to that.

However, I am looking for anyones experiences of managing and viewing the status of the RAID Controller (it's PERC version, not MegaRaid) from the ahacli or any other means.

When I do a 'controllers list' it can't seem to identify any of the controllers, even though the RAID is fully setup and I have installed on to the RAID 1 config.

Any advice/ experiences appreciated :)

Cheers,
S

Two things I can think of:
1)
The version of afaapps you're using is not compatible with the kernel in FC2. That should give you errors like this one:

/dev/MAKEDEV.afa: Can not derive the major number for device afa.

2)
You did remember to "open afa0" before issuing a "controller list" - right? ;)

If i try open afa0 it returns an error :(

What I was trying to get with controller list was the names of the controllers seen as afa0 isn't the right one for this system.

Upon installation, no errors we're returned... therefore I would expect it to work :)

Any further thoughts?

S

It's been a while since I used afaapps but IIRC the "open afa0" opens the adapter, not the controller. Do you have afaapps-4.1-0.i386.rpm? That seems to be the latest version.

Hiya,

Yep... running the latest version:
#rpm -q afaapps

When I run afacli and do 'open afa0' I get the following:
CLI > open afa0
Executing: open "afa0"
Command Error: <The requested controller does not exist.>

CLI >

Which is a bit annoying to say the least seen as the raid is setup on the machine, but I have no way of monitoring at the mo... I've tried a whole load of variations and commands to try and work out other devices to open, but their seems very little support out their for this (and documentation exists for afteryou have opened the device :P )

Any further thoughts appreciated

Cheers,
S

Spooky.

I just tried to install afaapps-4.1.0 on a PE 2550 with RHEL 3.0 and that did not go very well. The installation seems to be completed successfully but the binaries are nowhere to be found (e.g /usr/sbin/afacli).

Does Dell OMSA work? - and is it able to see the controller as well as the RAID?

Just trying to find the particular OMSA download and details on the Dell site, but isn't giving me a lot to work with :(

Have just batteled my way through the site in a round about way and am just downloading Dell OpenManage Server Administrator..

Is it just me or is support.dell.com creating javascript errors?

http://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/om410_lnx_managed_system_A01.tar.gz

thanks goldenplanet, guess you just have to know where to look.

Just getting it and going to see what I can do with it :)

Thanks once more :)

You're welcome. :)

Does the OMSA require X?

From what I have read, and decided to give start.sh a go..
#./start.sh
Turning off DMA on IDE CDROM drives.
Disabling DMA for CDROM /dev/hda
Message: [Start] -> Please wait
Error : please accept user agreement license, see Server Administrator's user's guide for help

Hmmm... don't like GUI's.. off to see the docs again :)

Aha... after looking at the code in start.sh..

./start.sh -license -noinstallweb

Seems to be going further :)

Oh this is a barrell of fun :)

---------START Fri Nov 26 11:17:34 GMT 2004 -----------------------------------
DEPENDENCY: Server Administrator : Server Administrator does not support the running kernel. See Dynamic Kernel Support in the Server Administrator readme.txt file.
DEPENDENCY: Remote Access Service : Cannot install or upgrade this application because the dependency check failed for Server Administrator.
DEPENDENCY: DRAC 4 : DRAC4: A remote access controller was not detected on this system.
DEPENDENCY: Array Manager : This application is not available for the Red Hat Linux operating system.
DEPENDENCY: Storage Management : Cannot install or upgrade this application because the dependency check failed for Server Administrator.
DEPENDENCY: Diagnostic Service : Cannot install or upgrade this application because the dependency check failed for Server Administrator.
DEPENDENCY: Update Service : This application is not available for the Red Hat Linux operating system.
Setup cannot install/upgrade any applications.
---------END Fri Nov 26 11:17:59 GMT 2004 -----------------------------------