Dell OMSA on RH 2.1

Tue Jun 20 09:29:08 CDT 2006

Hello!

1) No hardware has been added, except for an extra disk in the last hotswap slot (the machine is a PE2650).

2) The following rpms were installed for srvadmin-install.sh -dsw:

instsvc-drivers-5.0.0-1
srvadmin-cm-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-deng-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-hapi-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-isvc-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-iws-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-jre-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-odf-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-old-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-omacore-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-omhip-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-omilcore-4.3.0-785
srvadmin-storage-4.3.0-785

3) There is no problem when installing. The problem occurs when starting the dataeng service (as first part of the srvadmin-services.sh start command):

# srvadmin-services.sh start
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting dcdbas device driver:[  OK  ]
Starting dcdipm device driver:[  OK  ]
Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
Starting dcstor32d: [FAILED]
Starting dcevt32d: [  OK  ]
Starting dcsnmp32d: [  OK  ]
Starting "OM Common Services": [  OK  ]
Starting Secure Port Server: [  OK  ]
#
# omreport system version
Version Report

----------
Software
----------

Name       : Dell Server Administrator
Version    : 2.0.0
Updateable : N/A

# lsof | grep 1311       
# 

I have tried to strace the dcstor32d process but it seems like when getting RT signals the strace has to release.

Is there any way to increase the log level of dcstor32d?

/blåberg

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From: Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com [mailto:Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com] 
Sent: den 20 juni 2006 16:01
To: Jonas Blåberg; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: Dell OMSA on RH 2.1

Jonas,

A couple of questions/suggestions.

1) Is there any hardware in the system that was not shipped with the system?
2) Can you tell us exactly what is installed. On the latest version of OMSA you can do this by running `rpm -qa | grep srvadmin` that should work for 4.3 as well.
3) You may want to uninstall OMSA and try installing a component at a time using the install scripts in interactive mode. This would show the offending component and give us a better idea of how to proceed.

Thanks,
Patrick Boyd 
Dell Storage Software Engineer 
(512)728-3182 

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jonas Blåberg
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:08 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Dell OMSA on RH 2.1

Hello!

We have been using an old version of Dell OMSA on RH 2.1 AS since the machines were installed. The version used is 1.6.0 (the tgz package is named 3.6).

So I downloaded the latest supported for RH 2.1 from Dell's download pages which is 4.3 (when installed it says 2.0.0) and installed it with srvadmin-install.sh -dsw. 

But when trying to start it using srvadmin-services.sh start, dcstor32d says FAILED but processes are running, and nothing seems to be working. The omaws32 process is not listening to port 1311, so I am not able to check what is working and what is not. 

When stopping the agent the processes die, some pid files are usually left in /var/run, and semaphores created are not cleaned up (I have to ipcrm them manually).

I have also tried to install Dell OMSA 4.2 (which says 1.9.2 with omreport system version) with identical problems.

I know the operating system patch level is a little bit low, but at least we have patched the kernel to 2.4.9-e.68. Since this is an Oracle RAC production system I don't want to just try any applicable patch - I need a hint of where the problem could be located when behaving like this... I guess the semaphores could be the key but since they are part of the kernel that could not be the whole solution.

Regards
/blåberg

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Mandator Infrastructure
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