Perc 4/Di, OMSA 5.4 on 2.6.26 not seeing controller

[Sukbum Hong]

Hello, all.

megactl which you recommended is a good solution to me.
I confirmed that megactl works well for the  Perc 3/Perc 4.
But recently, I mainly use Perc 5 and Perc 6. 
I 'm afraid  megactl doesn't work for the Perc 5 and Perc 6. right?

What  I would like to do is monitoring the raid card status at linux without
OMSA for Perc 5/6.
because I have so lots of servers and I can't monitor each server separately
like OMSA.
if megactl works well, I'm going to make a script that if there is a problem
like disk i/o error, 
sending notification mail to the system admin.
 
Is there any good way or solution to solve this problem?


Thanks for your help.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Desai, Jason
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:49 AM
To: System Administrator; Dan Reagan
Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: RE: Perc 4/Di, OMSA 5.4 on 2.6.26 not seeing controller


I can confirm the same problem with a Perc 4e/Si using kernel
2.6.26-bpo.1-686 and dellomsa 5.2.0-2.  But the controller works.  I found
that megactl from http://sourceforge.net/projects/megactl is able to view
the status of the Perc 4e/Si just fine.  

I have a PERC 5/E in the same system which OMSA sees just fine.  If I boot
back into kernel 2.6.24-1-686, OMSA sees both controllers.  But in
2.6.25 and 2.6.26 OMSA seems to have issues seeing the Perc 4e/Si.  The
controller runs fine though.

Jase

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of System 
> Administrator
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:59 PM
> To: Dan Reagan
> Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: Perc 4/Di, OMSA 5.4 on 2.6.26 not seeing controller
> 
> I find the following website useful for the Debian users on PE server:
> 
> http://lazorsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/05/dell-openmanage-serv
> er-administrator.html
> 
> I hope one day Dell provides support for Linux Debian/Ubuntu 
> distribution.
> 
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dan Reagan wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed a current Debian 'unstable' on a PE2850
> and my OMSA
> > install (download from Sara) isn't seeing the raid
> controller. I noticed
> > a similar question in the archives from August 5th but can't seem to 
> > find an answer listed (if there was one).
> >
> > Some details:
> >
> > It's using the megaraid_mbox and megaraid_mm which appears
> to work just
> > fine as a driver (I can use the disk at least, I haven't done any 
> > benchmarking yet). I can see the chassis and system information in 
> > omreport. The system bios and controller firmware are up to
> date. I've
> > run both the stock Debian kernel and a custom 2.6.26.3 both with the 
> > same result. I have tried both 5.3 and 5.4 versions of
> OMSA, both with
> > the same result.
> >
> > I suspect that I'm either missing a simple fix or there is a known 
> > problem that I'm also not finding ;')
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
> >
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