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

[Ragnar Hulskamp]

Trond,

Thanks for your response. I cleared the yum cache and redownloaded and
reinstalled the packages once more, and the storage component is working
again. There were two machines with this ailment after an omsa upgrade
and both are working now after above procedure, so I suspect faulty
package(s) were downloaded to cause the below problem. I haven't
bothered to call dell again, but it seems their first line support
technicians are not completely up to date with OMSA on linux.

Best regards,

-- 
Ragnar Hulskamp
Sentia B.V.

Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote:
> 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,