OMSA: dataeng doing useless work at boot?

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

What you are seeing is the OMSA inventory collector. This allows OMSA to
report firmware and software versions through the web GUI or SNMP.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at lists.us.dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On Behalf Of Giulio
Orsero
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:01 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: OMSA: dataeng doing useless work at boot?

PE1800, CentOS 5.3

	OMSA 5.5.0-364
	dell-omsa-repository-2-5
	firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-4.5.el5
	dell-community-repository-1-10.3.el5
	dell_inventory_collector-6.1.0-1
	dell-onlinediags-2.12.0-71
	dell-dup-1.1.2-1.30.el5
	dell-firmware-repository-1-4

I used 
	yum install dell_inventory_collector
	yum install $(bootstrap_firmware)

this put all the FW stuff into /usr/share/firmware/dell, then I run

	==== work-around for firmware update bug
	fwdir=/usr/share/firmware/dell
	for payload_dir in `find $fwdir -type d -name payload`; do
		cp $payload_dir/* `dirname $payload_dir`
	done
	====

then

	update_firmware --yes

and it updated BIOS, PERC, BackPlane, BMC.

All seems to be fine (system reports new BIOS, PERC FW, ...), but I see
that
at every boot the start of the dataeng service is now slower, it takes 1
or
2 minutes, and in the process table I see a lot of weird process names
during this time, like LSIPIE.bin and similar (all stuff from
/usr/share/firmware/dell).

It's like dataeng is trying at every boot to update something.

Should I delete the entire content of /usr/share/firmware/dell after a
successful update to avoid this confusing and slow behavior?

What are the rpm names of the FW data I can uninstall as opposed to the
rpm
names blonging to the infrastructure I want to keep?

ie, these?
$  rpm -qa | grep PowerEdge
BMC_Firmware_componentid_05814_for_PowerEdge_2800-a10-21
system_bios_PowerEdge_2800-a07-20
Server_System_BIOS_componentid_00159_for_PowerEdge_2800-a07-21
Backplane_Firmware_componentid_03967_for_PowerEdge_2800-a01-21
Perc_4e_Di_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016e_for_PowerEd
ge_2800-
a19-21
$

Unfortunately the system is in a remote location, I'd like to uninstall
the
right rpms w/o causing trouble at the next boot.

Thanks
-- 
giulioo at pobox.com

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