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Re: C410x GPU box Bios Update only in .exe format

Patrick McMahon — 2012-05-25T18:32:27

Many, many thanks!

Pat



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Subject: Re: C410x GPU box Bios Update only in .exe format

On Fri, 25 May 2012, Patrick McMahon wrote:


These are often self extracting zip files.  For example, on linux:

$ wget ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/FOLDER00348837M/1/C410XBMC127.exe
$ unzip C410XBMC127.exe
Archive:  C410XBMC127.exe
    creating: External/doc/
   inflating: External/doc/update_fw_web.pdf
    creating: External/fw_img/
   inflating: External/fw_img/BM3P127.pec

daryl

C410x GPU box Bios Update only in .exe format

Patrick McMahon — 2012-05-25T18:16:40

Why is this so???

of the 4 OS listed to work with the C410 GPU enclosure, 3 are Linux, 1 is Windows - but the only file to download for a firmware update is "C410XBMC127.exe" a Windows executable...

Somehow I need to update 6 of these C410X's with 96 NVIDIA Fermi Cards in production...and I now need to go out and purchase a windows laptop with some kind of a floppy drive just to extract the update files?

They even have provided for download command line scripts to do the updating in bash/csh - but the only way to get the firmware files is via the .exe?

Could we please also have a .tgz?

It's all gotta be done via Web Management or the BMC and network - they don't have floppies built into the C410x's, so how's about unpackaging those nasty .exe's and giving us a nice tarball...

Pat

OpenManage 7.0 can't see all storage cards

David B. — 2012-05-25T08:51:42

Hi Dell users,

I've got a bunch of PE servers and I'm looking to upgrade them to
OpenManage 7.0.

All servers are on Debian Squeeze.

For now, this openmanage upgrade seems to be ok.

Yesterday, I found an issue with a R710.

# omreport chassis info
Chassis Information
Index                                    : 0
Chassis Name                             : Main System Chassis
iDRAC6 Version                           : 1.80.00 (Build 17)
Lifecycle Controller Version             : 1.3.0.350
Chassis Model                            : PowerEdge R710
Chassis Lock                             : Present
Chassis Asset Tag                        :
Flash chassis identify LED state         : Off
Flash chassis identify LED timeout value : 300


This server have 2 SCSI cards and 2 RAID cards.
OS is working well and kernel can see all theses cards.

# lspci
03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078
(rev 04)
06:08.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X
Fusion-MPT Du

Strange view on OME via OMSA on CentOS

2012-05-25T01:34:05

Hello experts,

Does anyone know URLs and so on which I can see some problems, troubles and bugs about
OME(OpenManage Essentials) & OMSA on CentOS.
If you know some informations, please let me know about that.

Seiji Watabe
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Sales Engineer
Dell | Enterprise Solutions Organaization
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Re: PE2950: CentOS 6.2 doesn't reboot

Gianluca Cecchi — 2012-05-24T15:55:05

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Gianluca Cecchi
<gianluca.cecchi< at >gmail.com> wrote:


I found this bug that applies to my setup:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5488

I'm going to apply the workaround referred and eventually reproduce
with RH EL 6 too, opening bugzilla for it.

Gianluca

No controllers found. OMSA 6.5. CentOS 6.2. PERC H710. PowerEdgeR620. No support yet?

André Luciano Dias — 2012-05-24T15:39:04

I´m trying to make OMSA command "omreport storage *" work. "omreport
chassis *"  and "omreport system *" are ok.

# omreport storage controller
No controllers found

My system: OMSA 6.5. CentOS 6.2. PERC H710. PowerEdge R620. I did the
installation using yum:

# wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash

# yum install srvadmin-all dell_ft_install

I´m starting to think there is no support for H710 on OMSA 6.5. Am i right?

I found the 7.0 version on Ubuntu repository, but the latest version
on the official repository is 6.5. Any date for 7.0 to be avaiable?

Thanks,

Andre

PE2950: CentOS 6.2 doesn't reboot

Gianluca Cecchi — 2012-05-24T15:24:02

Hello,
installed CentOS 6.2 x86_64 + updates on a PE2950 generation II server

Each time I try to reboot the server, it stops like in this image:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwoPbcrMv8mvVGVVc2tXU2JobEk

How can I debug this problem?
Until today this server had rh el 5.7 x86_64 and didn't show this problem.

fw levels are ok
drac5 fw  1.51
BMC 2.37
bios 2.6.1
perc 5/i  5.2.2-0072

This reboot problem btw prevents me to update bios to latest 2.7.0
through PE2950_BIOS_LX_2.7.0.BIN file.
In fact when I have to reboot the server, it stops and so I'm forced
to power cycle and I get back my 2.6.1 version...

This behaviour is the same with and without the 6.5.0 omsa for rhel6
installed (they seems to work ok, after changing redhat-release file)

Thanks in advance.
Gianluca

PE R310/510 Special NIC Bonding

Martin Seener — 2012-05-24T09:21:25

Hello everyone,

we have some R510 with the Dual-NIC Broadcom onboard and an PCIe Intel 
Single-Port GigE Card separately attached.

We now setup a Linux Bonding (Debian Squeeze latest with ifenslave-2.6) 
using settings below and i want to ask if its okay or not to use one 
Broadcom and the Intel Card in a Bond together or if its better to use 
NICs from the same vendor for that (the 3rd NIC is a normal iface)

We saw issues with SLES11 on R310 while bonding them (mode4 LACP) and 
using an IPSec Tunnel over this with the following error. so i want to ask

2012:05:24-09:42:22 seth kernel: [659323.689392] ppp0 received packet on 
queue 2, but number of RX queues is 1

bonding on that 510 is mode 1 active/backup. - here the config (eth0/1 
is internal broadcom, eth2 intel pcie) - i dont think that this causes 
similar errors because only one card is active and not both the same 
time like on the SLES11 we have a mode=4 bonding.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
#
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
address 10.1.3

Q: Success/Caveats running Debian Squeeze/Wheezy on 12th GenPowerEdges?

Stephen Dowdy — 2012-05-23T17:03:47

Has anyone successfully got Debian Squeeze running on a 12th gen
PowerEdge (R[67]20 mainly).  Which squeeze backports kernel works
best (at all?)  Any issues, significant performance/stability
problems?  Does Testing/Wheezy work?

Thanks,
--stephen

RE: R620/12G servers w/CentOS 5.7 and low-latency?

2012-05-23T16:28:33

Matt,
Here is a link to documentation on this topic.  http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2012/05/07/configuring-low-latency-environments-on-dell-poweredge-12th-generation-servers.aspx.  The BIOS team is investigating your report of inconsistent performance, but I have not heard anything back from them.  Hopefully your issue is being addressed by the formal channels.

Wayne Weilnau
Systems Management Technologist
Dell | OpenManage Software Development 

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Re: Dell R410 and CentOS 6.2

Baptiste AGASSE — 2012-05-23T16:03:59

Hi,


We just tested with another switch, but nothing change...

Have a nice day.

Regards.

Baptiste.

Re: R610 PXE RHEL5 install

Govind B. Songara — 2012-05-23T14:12:24

My R610 box having 4* 1GB Broadcom , 2*10GB Intel PCIe card.

I am using PXE kickstart for install,

Is there any option to disable or ban module/driver from loading for these
10GB card.?

I dont know how to do that.. any suggestion ?

Thanks


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Re: Some Problems with "gpg -keyserver"

Olivier Calzi — 2012-05-23T09:28:38

Thanks Jared,

I'have tried :

gpg --keyserver  109.230.243.87 --recv-key 1285491434D8786F

with each serveur the dig command found.
I'm in a firm, we have a Squid proxy. Do you think it will be the reason of
the failure?

Thanks, Have a nice day

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RE: R510 Linux NIC Order

Bart Lubberdink — 2012-05-23T05:22:29

Hello Martin,

We have seen this problem also (only in our case) with some RedHat installations in combination with more than 2 network interfaces.
And on multiple servers (PE1950, R410... etc.)
I assumed it had something to do with a timing problem so udev wil detect card 1 and card 2 in a random order

The only option to get this fixed is the option Stefan mentioned.
Setting udev rules didn't solve the problem for our situation.

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RE: Two questions from a newbie

2012-05-23T03:39:50

Hi Mesterhazy,

Using omarolemap feature, administrators can only elevate the privileges of the users. Demotions are not a use case and technically it is not advised to do so. If there is an entry pointing to demotion, then the users will get their default OS based privilege level.

OMSA has the ability to limit the user access based on group (Administrators, Power users, Users). Please refer the below commands:

1. omconfig preferences useraccess enable=user  : Grants Server Administrator access to Users, Power Users, and Administrators.
2. omconfig preferences useraccess enable=poweruser : Grants Server Administrator access to Power Users and Administrators.
3. omconfig preferences useraccess enable=admin : Grants Server Administrator access to Administrators only

Thanks,
Chandrasekhar R
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:33:58 -0500
From: <Jared_Dominguez< at >DELL.com>
Subject: RE: Some Problem

Re: R610 PXE RHEL5 install

Bryan Seitz — 2012-05-22T19:16:56

All,

     I know this post is about RHEL5, but just a tidbit of information
here that might be useful to some.  You will find that EL6 will name the
interfaces 'em1/em2' for embedded 1 and embedded 2 respectively.  I use
the following kernel option during install and after install to use the
old behavior:

biosdevname=0 

Cheers

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Re: newbie hep - R610 with RHEL6.2 and multipath issues

Ricardo Stella — 2012-05-22T19:01:10

Hi Austin,

I did boot rescue and was able to restore the multipath.conf file.  I
also edited it and blacklisted the local device.

However, the device is still being managed by multipath no matter what. 
Any other ideas?  TIA.

Ricardo.

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RE: R610 PXE RHEL5 install

2012-05-22T18:39:00

Yes, the RHEL5 boot image enumerates NICs screwy.   Often it even enumerates daughter card NICs before on-board NICs.  

PARENTHETICAL NOTE:   This is not a real problem, except in imaging. As I anticipate your post-install scripts will re-enumerate your NICs in your desired way.  So this is a nuisance only during imaging. 

I image a lot of Dell PowerEdge servers w/ RHEL5, here's several tips:

1. For all of a particular server model, it *always* enumerates the same screwy way.  So if your daughter NICs are enumerated before your onboards on one R610, they will be enumerated this way on *all* R610s.

That means....

2. If you can go physical to image a R710 w/ this NIC config, you can click on "identify" on the NIC selection screen.   Flash the NIC for 30 - 60 secs, go around back to identify which NIC this is. Once you identify how the RHEL5 boot image enumerates this R610, you know it will enumerate all R710s the same way.  So you can then remote image R610s w/ confidence.  (NOTE:  flashing NICs works les

Re: Two questions from a newbie

Sabuj Pattanayek — 2012-05-22T18:11:52

anywhere in the world client vpn -> nxclient (administrative box),
browser -> OMSA on server

Re: Two questions from a newbie

Sabuj Pattanayek — 2012-05-22T16:41:30

If you can't figure out how to get this to work, what I ended up doing
was locking down web access to 1311 from my administrative system or
particular IPs to which only I and other admins have access.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Mester <mester< at >freemail.hu> wrote:

Re: Two questions from a newbie

Mester — 2012-05-22T16:32:20

I tried but with no luck.
If I only have user1 * Administrator in this file the root user can 
still logon.
I also tried to disable User logons to OMSA and have root * User in the 
omarolemap but root can still logon as administrator.
So is there a way to somehow disable root logons?


Attila Mesterhazy