DRAC issue on PE2850

[Brian O'Mahony]

I have three DRACs situated in Bangalore sitting in 2850s. these were never set up so I decided to set them up. Assigned static IPs.


1.
When I did racadm racreset, the machines fell over.
One of them:

ccvob01_blrpr kernel: Disabling IRQ #193
Followed by hundreds of entries of:

ccvob01_blrpr kernel: journal commit I/O error

until the system hangs with every command.


Two of them:
ccvob02_blrpr kernel: Disabling IRQ #193
No mention of commit errors, but once again the system jhangs.. takes about 5 mins to log in, and once you try an ls or anything such, then the system just freezes up.

In all three cases the machines needed to be reset. Any ideas why that happened?


2.
After the resets, which were done at different points over the last two weeks, two of the three DRACs are now visible via the web console. The last one is not visible, but I can ssh to it, and run commands. Is there a way to restart the webserver without restarting the device?

3.
The reason I want to get this working is I have to doa  PERC FW upgrade on these boxes in the upcoming nights, and want to be able to see the console, just in case something goes wrong.

4.
Two of them need to be updated to FW 1.60 (they are running 1.35). What do you think is the best way to go about this, before or after the PERC FW upgrade. (Im thinking of just leaving this off altogether for now)

5.
If the PERC FW fails to update or something goes pear-shaped, is there a way to fix it from the DRAC - ie re-flash it somehow?

B


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