raid controller not detected in RHEL5.2 with omsa5.5

[Trond Hasle Amundsen]

Ragnar Hulskamp <rh at sentia.nl> writes:

> I have a problem with the storage component of omsa on linux RHEL 5.2.
> It seems that the storage component of omsa 5.5.0-364 is unable to find
>   a Perc 6/i controller in a poweredge 1950.
>
> OS: official Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
> (without dell drivers)
>
> Kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Oct 22 04:33:46 EDT 2008 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Hardware: Poweredge 1950
>
> Raid controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 (rev 04)
>
> I have installed and reinstalled:
>
> srvadmin-syscheck-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-omacore-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-base-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-omilcore-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-deng-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-ipmi-5.5.0-364.rhel5
> srvadmin-isvc-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-storage-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-omhip-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-omauth-5.5.0-364.rhel5
> srvadmin-hapi-5.5.0-364
> srvadmin-cm-5.5.0-364
>
> Services seem to start up without any problems:
>
> $ srvadmin-services.sh start
> Starting mptctl:
> Waiting for mptctl driver registration to complete:
>                                             OK
> Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
> Starting dell_rbu:                                         [  OK  ]
> Starting ipmi driver: Already started                      [  OK  ]
> Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
> Starting dsm_sa_datamgr32d:                                [  OK  ]
> Starting dsm_sa_eventmgr32d:                               [  OK  ]
> Starting DSM SA Shared Services:                           [  OK  ]
>
> $ omreport storage controller
> No controllers found
>
> I have contacted dell support about this and they told me that because I
> am not using RHEL5.2 that has been purchased via dell and I am not using
> dell (megaraid) drivers, OMSA doesnt detect the raid controller.
>
> Now with previous versions of RHEL an omsa, this never has been a
> problem. Can someone verify that this is indeed my problem or is there
> something wrong with srvadmin-storage-5.5.0-364, possibly in combination
> with RHEL5?

I can confirm that plain RHEL5.2 with OMSA 5.5.0 works like a charm on a
ton of 1950s and 2950s with PERC6/i here. OMSA complains about old
driver (will hopefully be updated in RHEL5.3), but besides that
everything works just fine.

I would hammer Dell support some more. The assumption it doesn't work
because the driver is (slightly) older that what OMSA prefers, is wrong.

Cheers,
-- 
Trond H. Amundsen <t.h.amundsen at usit.uio.no>
Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo