What happened to my OMSA ? Updated info & more questions

[Jeff Boyce]

Sorry for the top-posting folks, but I want to keep things in order even if 
it is in reverse order.

A little more research on this warning message give this information from an 
OMSA Messages Reference Guide dated July 2004.  "Warning.  The system 
management BIOS does not contain a valid system management BIOS version 2.2 
or higher, or the BIOS is corrupted."  I am not sure that this makes any 
sense since OMSA 4.5 was running fine before updating my kernel, but not 
after.  Some additional searching on Google and I found some references 
where OMSA would not display (or query?) all sensor information because of a 
conflict between the OMSA built-in IPMI driver and the Linux-kernel-provided 
IPMI driver set.  For the Dell gurus on the list, could this be what my 
problem is?  OMSA 4.5 was working fine, I updated my kernel from RHEL3U7 to 
RHEL3U8.  The kernel update therefore created a conflict between the two 
IPMI drivers?

If this is the cause of my problem, is there an easy way to fix it without 
re-installing OMSA?  If I have do that I might as well upgrade to OMSA 5.0. 
Where would find an rpm package of OMSA 5.0 to install?  I am not sure that 
I want to do the yum repository as I am a novice system admin for a small 
company and have never done that before, but I am getting comfortable with 
rpm installs.

Jeff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Boyce" <jboyce at meridianenv.com>
To: <linux-poweredge at dell.com>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: What happened to my OMSA ?


> Ok, maybe the log information that I found in OMSA will give us a clue 
> about
> what happened.  The following four lines are from the date and time when I
> rebooted the server after updating the kernel.  The third line gives a
> warning that SMBIOS data is absent.  What is SMBIOS, and why is the data 
> now
> absent?  Is this the cause of my problem? And how concerned should I be
> about this?  I haven't changed any hardware on my system since replacing 
> my
> PERC controller battery about six months ago.  This was the first system
> reboot since then.
>
> Fri Aug 18 07:29:31 2006Storage ServiceSee readme.txt for a list of
> validated controller driver versions.
> Fri Aug 18 07:29:06 2006Instrumentation ServiceServer Administrator 
> starting
> Warning  Fri Aug 18 07:29:06 2006Instrumentation ServiceSMBIOS data is
> absent
> Fri Aug 18 07:29:06 2006Instrumentation ServiceServer Administrator 
> startup
> complete
>
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Boyce" <jboyce at meridianenv.com>
> To: <linux-poweredge at dell.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:15 PM
> Subject: Re: What happened to my OMSA ?
>
>
>> Well it looks like from my LogWatch file for that day that the
>> kernel-source package was installed.  And I have restarted the openmanage
>> services again since then with no change to the (lack of) monitoring. 
>> Are
>> there any other possibilities, or things that I could/should be checking?
>>
>> Package Installed:
>>   ['kernel-2.4.21-47.EL', 'kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-19',
>> 'kernel-smp-2.4.21-47.EL', 'kernel-source-2.4.21-47.EL',
>> 'kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.15']
>>   ['sysreport-1.3.7.2-17']
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <Cody_Sparks at Dell.com>
>> To: <jboyce at meridianenv.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 2:49 PM
>> Subject: RE: What happened to my OMSA ?
>>
>>
>> When you upgraded kernels, did you also install the kernel-source
>> package for the new kernel?  If not, install the kernel-source package
>> and stop/start the openmanage services again.  It sounds like the kernel
>> module didn't get re-compiled for your new kernel.
>>
>> --Cody
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
>> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Boyce
>> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 4:37 PM
>> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
>> Subject: What happened to my OMSA ?
>>
>> I've had OMSA 4.5 installed and working fine on a PE2600 running RHEL3
>> for a year or so.  I noticed last week that items displayed in the web
>> interface under the MainChassis item is now an abbreviated list of what
>> was being displayed about a month ago.  Currently this item lists only
>> Memory, Network, and Ports.  Previously I recall it listed Fans,
>> Temperature Sensors, and I think some other stuff; at least fans and
>> temps were listed somewhere, now they are nowhere to be found.  The only
>> thing that I have done lately to my system is updated some packages and
>> my kernel from U7 to
>> U8 with a reboot.  I looked in dmsg for some possible clues, but as a
>> novice linux administrator for a small company (full time ecologist,
>> part time system admin) I may not recognize the clues that are there.
>> If anyone can tell me what might of happened, or provide me some
>> guidance for what to look for I would appreciate it.  I would like to
>> understand what happened first before trying to fix it.  I am sure
>> people are going to tell me to upgrade to OMSA 5.0 (which I may do), but
>> I am coming to the knowledge base here to try to learn something first.
>> If there is any other information that I can provide to the list let me
>> know.
>>
>> Jeff Boyce
>> www.meridianenv.com
>>
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