omreport 4.5.0-335 : no temperature or fans probes on DELL PE1800
Harald_Jensas at Dell.com
Harald_Jensas at Dell.com
Tue May 16 02:58:34 CDT 2006
Hi,
I belive you need to apply a lot of patches to your kernel source tree to get IPMI to work properly with Dell Servers.
--
OMSA should work, did you check that you have the latest and greatest in BMC firmware, BIOS etc. ?
//
Harald Jensås
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Bourgin [mailto:pierre.bourgin at arteris.com]
> Sent: 15 May 2006 17:44
> To: Jensas, Harald
> Cc: Boyd, Patrick; linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: omreport 4.5.0-335 : no temperature or fans
> probes on DELL PE1800
>
> Harald_Jensas at Dell.com a écrit :
> > IPMI drivers should not be loaded if running OMSA 4.5, it
> is good to
> > check if you have them loaded. In that case, unload the
> IPMI drivers
> > and try remove and add OMSA Kernel modules again. The OMSA drivers
> > will conflict the IPMI driver.
>
> OK, thanks for the "tip".
>
> I don't think I'm using anymore the ipmi kernel modules:
>
> % lsmod |grep -i ipmi
> [no output]
>
> > What do you mean by this:
> >> I'm able to retrieve temperatures datas for a few hours
> only; so the
> >> temperatures probes are OK.
> >
> > Is this an intermittent problem? Will it work again if you reboot?
>
> Sorry: I've tried to use IPMI first (before) omreport, but I
> was hard (I'm newbie about it).
> It has worked a few minutes (about 2hour with a request every
> 30s) ;I was able to retrieve temperature from probes, then
> the kernel complains about IPMI and I was bot able anymore to
> retrieve temp. with command "/usr/bin/ipmitool -I open sdr list full"
>
> % grep -i ipmi /var/log/messsages.10
> brutus kernel: IPMI message handler: BMC returned incorrect
> response, expected netfn b cmd 23, got netfn b cmd 40 [...]
>
> After reboots (rmmod command on ipmi* modules was
> unsucesfull), the same things happened, so I've decides to
> avoid IPMI (that is too complicated for the simple things I need).
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Bourgin
>
>
> >
> > // Harald
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> >> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
> >> Patrick_Boyd at dell.com Sent: 15 May 2006 16:26 To:
> >> pierre.bourgin at arteris.com; Jensas, Harald Cc:
> >> linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: RE: omreport 4.5.0-335 : no
> >> temperature or fans probes on DELL PE1800
> >>
> >> The modules handle any data retrieved from the BIOS or BMC in the
> >> server. The RAID controller information is retrieved using
> the native
> >> linux drivers for your RAID devices so as long as the OS can see
> >> those OMSA can see them.
> >>
> >> Do you have any IPMI drivers installed? I'm not 100% sure
> on this but
> >> I thought that 4.5.0 used IPMI to some extent.
> >>
> >> Patrick Boyd Dell Storage Software Engineer (512)728-3182
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> >> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
> Pierre Bourgin
> >> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 4:50 AM To: Jensas, Harald Cc:
> >> linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: omreport 4.5.0-335 : no
> >> temperature or fans probes on DELL PE1800
> >>
> >> Harald_Jensas at Dell.com a écrit :
> >>
> >>> Is the dcdbas.ko and dcdipm.ko Kernel Modules compiled and
> >>
> >> loaded for
> >>
> >>> your kernel when you start OMSA?
> >>
> >> So these kernel modules handle temperatures and sensors datas; do
> >> they handle other datas (such as RAID controller) or only temps &
> >> fans ? Because I'm able to retrieve datas from RAID controller.
> >>
> >> To answer to your question: yes, these modules are
> currently loaded,
> >> and have been (correctly) built on the target plaform:
> >>
> >> % lsmod |grep dcd dcdipm 48644 2 dcdbas
> >> 38812 2
> >>
> >> % modprobe -v -l |grep dcd
> >> /lib/modules/2.6.9-34.106.unsupportedsmp/misc/dcdipm.ko
> >> /lib/modules/2.6.9-34.106.unsupportedsmp/misc/dcdbas.ko
> >>
> >> % uname -r 2.6.9-34.106.unsupportedsmp
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Pierre Bourgin
> >>
> >>
> >>> // Harald Jensås
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message----- From:
> >>>> linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> >>>> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
> >>
> >> Pierre Bourgin
> >>
> >>>> Sent: 14 May 2006 17:04 To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject:
> >>>> omreport 4.5.0-335 : no temperature or fans probes on DELL PE1800
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I've began to play with omreport to retrieve datas and
> >>
> >> monitor this
> >>
> >>>> server (thanks to zabbix).
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm able to retrieve RAID state of my PERC4/DC controller for
> >>>> instance, but unable to retrieve temperatures or fan datas.
> >>>> (see commands output below).
> >>>>
> >>>> Did I missed something ? Does someone has a clue ?
> >>>>
> >>>> I've also tried to play with IPMI, but it's a nightmare (kernel
> >>>> modules...): I'm able to retrieve temperatures datas for a
> >>
> >> few hours
> >>
> >>>> only; so the temperatures probes are OK.
> >>>>
> >>>> On this other hand, "omreport" looks like all the simple stuff I
> >>>> need...
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks in advance for your replies.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> % uname -a Linux brutus 2.6.9-34.106.unsupportedsmp #1
> SMP Sat Mar
> >>>> 18 16:08:26 CST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >>>>
> >>>> % rpm -aq |grep svradmin srvadmin-omilcore-4.5.0-335
> >>>> srvadmin-omacore-4.5.0-335 srvadmin-hapi-4.5.0-335
> >>>> srvadmin-cm-4.5.0-335 srvadmin-omhip-4.5.0-335
> >>>> srvadmin-deng-4.5.0-335 srvadmin-odf-4.5.0-335
> >>>> srvadmin-isvc-4.5.0-335 srvadmin-jre-4.5.0-335
> >>>> srvadmin-storage-4.5.0-335 srvadmin-iws-4.5.0-335
> >>>>
> >>>> # a working request on RAID controller % omreport storage
> >>
> >> vdisk List
> >>
> >>>> of Virtual Disks in the System
> >>>>
> >>>> Controller PERC 4/DC (Slot 5) ID : 0 Status :
> >>>> Ok Name : Virtual Disk 0 State : Ready Progress
> >>>> : Not Applicable Layout : RAID-5 Size : 838.13 GB
> >>>> (899929866240 bytes) Device Name : /dev/sda Read Policy :
> >>>> Adaptive Read Ahead Write Policy : Write Back Cache Policy
> >>
> >> : Direct
> >>
> >>>> I/O Stripe Size : 64 KB
> >>>>
> >>>> Controller LSI Logic/Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual
> >>>> Ultra 320 SCSI (rev 8). (Embedded) No virtual disks found
> >>>>
> >>>> # no temps % omreport chassis temps Error! No temperature probes
> >>>> found on this system.
> >>>>
> >>>> # no fans datas % omreport chassis fans Error! No fan
> >>
> >> probes found on
> >>
> >>>> this system.
> >>>>
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