OMSA Tools, Debian etch x64, mpt/sas raid

[Bas van der Vlies]

Bryan Mclellan wrote:
> As many others have noted, omreport storage controllers doesn’t find 
> controllers on my 1955 Blade running debian etch 64. I’ve played with an 
> number of the contributed debs out there, and settled on getting one of 
> the ones from dell’s site working using –force-architecture. Omreport 
> pulls all the chassis info alright, just doesn’t see the storage controller.
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> So I had to rebuild to work on the SAS array, which I wasn’t happy.
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> There’s a number of notes on my blog entry: 
> http://loftninjas.org/blog/2007/12/dell-omsa-for-sas-raid-on-debian-etch.html
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> If anyone happens to know what needs to be tweaked to get this working, 
> that’d be great. I’d love to get the raid monitored in nagios at some point.
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> Bryan McLellan
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Bryan,

  I read your blog you tried an old version of dell-omsa version from our 
site 5.1. Did you also tried the other versions:
   * dellomsa_5.2.0-1_amd64.deb
   * dellomsa_5.1.0-5_amd64.deb
   * dellomsa_5.2.0-2_amd64.deb

And you must also have the mptctl support in the kernel.

Regards

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