PE 2950 and debian

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Matheus Bezerra Estrela Rodrigues
> Sent: 04 August 2008 16:42
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: PE 2950 and debian
> 
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:17:56 +0100
> "Alex Howells" <alex.howells at 0wn3d.us> wrote:
> 
> > 2008/8/3 Jared <list-dell at legroom.net>:
> > > Can you be a little more specific about what you're trying to do?
I'm
> > > running Etch amd64 on a PowerEdge 2950 and it works great.  If
you're just
> > > trying to install OMSA, it's easiest to use the Debian port
available
> here:
> > > ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/dell/
> >
> > To try and answer the original poster, the DRAC isn't really
employed
> > through Debian Etch as its an "out of band" system -- configure it
> > with an IP address and setup the NICs appropriately and you'll have
a
> > web interface (in addition to other methods of getting at it) for
> > fixing the server remotely.  You should be able to get on the
console,
> > powercycle the server, view essential information about your
> > temperatures, fan speeds and also configure the DRAC to send you
> > e-mail alerts when things go a bit pear-shaped. :)
> >
> > I think your RAID controller works fine, if you have Debian Etch
> > installed -- assuming you're talking about management then the Dell
> > OMSA tools linked above can help. Particularly useful is the
> > 'omreport' which can be invoked something along the lines of:
> >
> >     omreport storage pdisk controller=0
> >
> > It'll give output about the state of physical disks, virtual arrays,
> > controllers, enclosures. Not to mention temperature sensors, power
> > supplies, etc.
> 
> this is working fine ! Thanks ;)
> 
> the issue now is to have from where to read, any source of info on the
tool,
> as I figured:
> 
> dell1:/opt/dell/srvadmin# omreport --help
> Error! Invalid option specified: --help
> 
> :(
> 
> thanks again,
> 
> matheus
> --


Try 

'omreport help'

Command Line Interface User's Guide is available here:
http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/5.4/en/cli/
pdf/OMSA_CLI_5.4.pdf



--
Harald