megaraid_sas driver version 3.10<->3.13

[J Potter]

I might suggest outputting two version values: "suggested" vs  
"minimally acceptable" -- where minimally acceptable is "upgrade to  
this version to avoid known problems and avoid Degraded state", and  
suggested is "for new features, run this version or newer."

In our case, we're going to have to firmware upgrade and reboot ~200+  
servers so that our monitoring system stops whining about "degraded  
storage". Alternatively, we could stick with OMSA 5.2, but that would  
has its own set of problems.

If the minimal version was split into two, though, the monitoring  
systems could key off of that, and whatever wants to key off of the  
"new features" version could look at that.

(Michael, will try your next set of suggestions after business hours  
today. Thanks!)

-Jeff


On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:

> The reasoning behind OMSA flagging firmware or driver warnings is that
> for a full set of functionality in OMSA you need the new driver and
> firmware or in some cases Dell just highly recommends updating to the
> driver and firmware in question.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of wolf2k5
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:00 PM
> To: Troels Arvin
> Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: megaraid_sas driver version 3.10<->3.13
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Troels Arvin <troels at arvin.dk> wrote:
>> After the upgrade, Dell OpenManage Server Administrator's web
> interface
>> reports this in the alert log for a server which I operate (PE 2950):
>>
>>   The current driver version 00.00.03.10 (megaraid_sas)
>>   is older than the required driver version 00.00.03.13
>>   (megaraid_sas) for a controller of model 0x1F03:
>>   Controller 0 (PERC 5/i Integrated)
>>
>> I would very much like to simply keep using the operating system's
> built-
>> in drivers (RHEL 5 with all updates).
>
> I'm also a few PE1950s with RHEL5.1 with the latest updates and got
> that warning message in OpenManage 5.3.
>
> So far the servers seem to be running fine and I'd prefer to stick to
> the RH drivers unless there is a real reason to upgrade to the newer
> driver from Dell.
>
> Does anybody know the the exact reason why OM is reporting that
> warning? Does the older driver has serious bugs (crash, data loss,
> etc.)?
>
> Thanks.
>
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