Clearing esm log on SC1425.

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:28:13AM +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote:
> We've got a cluster of SC1425's running a derivative of RHEL 3 (Rocks).
> After a disk replacement one is showing a flashing amber light which
> I'd like to clear.  I can read the event log indirectly by running
> the diagnostics (booted from a usb flash drive) but I can't find any
> way to clear it.
> 
> This is what I've tried:
> 
>    omsa:  won't install because the SC1425's aren't supported
> 
>    delldset: clearesmlog fails trying to find /etc/init.d/dataeng
>              (which gets installed with omsa!).
> 
>    ipmitool:  no /dev/ipmi0 (even after modprobe of ipmi modules)

You'll need the ipmi initscript, as RHEL3 doesn't have udev to
automatically create that node.  Then it'll work.

Install OpenIPMI (which is the userspace package) which includes the
ipmi initscript.

Thanks,
Matt

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