Configuring DRACII on a PE2400 with CentOS 3.7

[Hank]

If you search the archives of this list for "dracII 2550",  you should find
some posts by me that describe what you need to do.  If you can't find them,
let me know, and I'll try to locate them.

-Hank



On 7/30/06, Ian Dale <adsly3la at tpg.com.au> wrote:
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>   I would greatly appreciate anyone's help with configuring the DRACII
> controller on my Dell Poweredge 2400 running CentOS 3.7. So far I have
> done the following:
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> 1) Updated the PE2400 including DRACII card, to latest firmware as
> specified by the Dell website.
>
> 2) Installed the latest Dell Installation and Server Management CD v4.5from Dell, which seems to install the RAC admin utilities for DRACIII (not
> DRACII).
>
> 3) Modified the racpci field in the /etc/init.d/racser script from
> "1028:0008" to "101e:9063" based in the information provided by the lspci
> command, which clearly shows the dracII device being detected.
>
> 4) As a result of the information provided by the lspci command, I also
> modified the modules.pcitable file to include the correct values for the
> DRACII vendor, device and class numbers, which are 0x0000101e, 0x00009063
> and 0x00000880 respectively.
>
> 5) Created a rac0 device using the command 'mknod -m 644 /dev/rac0 c 170
> 0', as recommended in one thread I read.
>
> 6) Forced the megarac module to load at startup by adding it to the
> rc.modules file in the /etc directory.
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> After all of the above, the racser service starts OK as do all the other
> rac services except racservc which fails (says drac card not present). But
> the bottom line is I still cannot communicate with the drac card when using
> the racadm commands as it always comes back saying the drac card is not
> present, even if I'm just trying to reset it. The linux system detects the
> DRACII but I just feel that none of the utilities I have a configured for
> the DRACII, especially considering that the racser script has the wrong
> vendor and class numbers. I've read in some places that there is a
> DRAC-Common-2.5.?? rpm file somewhere but I'm dammed if I can find it on
> any site, including the Dell.
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> Any help is appreciated.
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> Regards,
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> Ian
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-Hank
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