by Omshivaprakash | Aug 29, 2012 | Bug Fix, QuickFix, Technical
Following info from the mailing list solves the issue.
DSM SA v7.1.0- Unsupported System on PowerEdge 2950
Dan Yamaoka dyamaoka at ebetinc.com
Fri Aug 24 14:11:14 CDT 2012
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> On Fri Aug 24 11:41:03 CDT 2012, Tony Molloy wrote:
>
>Same problem on a R415 running CentOS 6.3
Same issue here on R410 Centos 6.3.
Fixed it by changing the following in
/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/CheckSystemType
IsDELLSystem()
{
# “$SMBIOS_UTIL” | grep “OEM String 1″ | awk -F”:” ‘{print $2}’ | grep -qi
“Dell”
“$SMBIOS_UTIL” | grep “Vendor” | awk -F”:” ‘{print $2}’ | grep -qi
“Dell”
by Omshivaprakash | Feb 5, 2012 | General, Gnu/Linux, linux, Technical, technology
It has become quite simple to upgrade the DELL Servers firmwares if you’re running Linux on them.
Find the repos from Linux portal of Dell.
# set up repos
wget -q -O – https://linux.dell.com/repo/community/bootstrap.cgi | bash
wget -q -O – https://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
Install the firmware tools
yum -y install firmware-addon-dell
And here you go. Update BIOS updates/firmwares easily.
# install BIOS update
yum -y install $(bootstrap_firmware)
update_firmware
Tags: CentOS, Dell, Fedora, firmware upgrade, Redhat
by Omshivaprakash | Nov 6, 2011 | Gnu/Linux, Product Info, Technical, Virtualization, Webhosting
Those who doesn’t like configuring a long list of alert mechanism of OMSA on Dell servers, here comes a savior – check_openmanage Nagios plugin. Making life easier.
More info on this plugin:
check_openmanage checks the hardware health of Dell servers running OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA). The plugin can be used remotely with SNMP or locally with NRPE, check_by_ssh or similar, whichever suits your needs and particular taste. The plugin checks the health of the storage subsystem, power supplies, memory modules, temperature probes etc., and gives an alert if any of the components are faulty or operate outside normal parameters.
Here are some of its results:
dell-server01 ~$ check_openmanage
OK – System: ‘PowerEdge R710′, SN: ‘XXXXXXX’, 72 GB ram (18 dimms), 1 logical drives, 2 physical drives
nagios-server ~$ check_openmanage -H dell-server02
Physical Disk 1:3 [Seagate ST3300007LC, 300GB] on ctrl 0 needs attention: Failure Predicted
It’s neat output and nagios ability to keep us alerted about server issues via email, sound alert through nagios plugins etc makes it feel good to keep a healthier RAID array running on servers.
Tags: check_openmanage, Dell, OMSA, OpenManage
by Omshivaprakash | Jul 4, 2010 | Gnu/Linux, linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
Found a Broadcom wifi card facing problems after 2.6.31-20-generic-pae kernel upgrade on Ubuntu 10.04 (Dell Inspiron with a i3 processor) Trying to activate the driver via the System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers -> enable the Broadcom STA proprietary wireless driver route failed with an error in /var/log/jockey.log WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: […]
by Omshivaprakash | Jul 4, 2010 | Gnu/Linux, linux, Technical, Virtualization, XEN
To get your OpenManage installation working on a DELL Server installed with Citrix XEN Server, add following IPTABLES rules: INPUT Table -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 5666 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 1311 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 5666 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp […]
by Omshivaprakash | Nov 20, 2009 | Gnu/Linux, Infrastructure Management, linux, Management, Product Info, Technical
Dell OpenManage System Administration (OMSA) tools makes it easy to see server health, storage management, hardware health checks etc on DELL Servers from anywhere.
If you’re running RHEL5, CentOS, Scientific Linux, RHEL4+yum, SLES+yum, you can easily install DELL OpenManage System Administration Tool (OMSA) from DELL Official yum repository. Read this link for more information Dell Hardware Repo latest.
Set up this repository:
wget -q -O - https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash
Install OpenManage Server Administrator
yum install srvadmin-all
Once the installation is over, OpenManage services can be start using following command.
srvadmin-services.sh start
srvadmin-services.sh start
Then access the OpenManage via browser at https://:1311
NOTE: OMSA will not install on unsupported systems. If you receive a message at install that the system is not supported, it is likely that your system is not supported, and the install will fail. This is most common on SC-class systems, as OMSA is completely unsupported on these systems.
Firewall Rule:
To enable port 1311 you can add the following rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables on Redhat based systems.
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1311 -j ACCEPT
Save the file and restart iptables
#service iptables restart
You can also find direct links to DELL support on OMSA interface.
I used the same instructions to install OMSA on Citrix XenServer which is based on CentOS recently.
Other Links:
DELL Linux Community-supported repository
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 6.1 documentation
by Omshivaprakash | Apr 16, 2009 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
I just tried fixing my Skype on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” (Beta). I could get it configured just fine in seconds without much headache this time. www.pulseaudio.org did not really bug me this time.
Here is my skype sound preference on DELL XPS M1210 running on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”.
I’m using internal Mic which comes attached with the in-built camera.Video config also works out-of-box as of now.
Nice calling skype.
by Omshivaprakash | Sep 26, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
Yes, I’m now on WiFi for few hours. At last I received my new battery this evening. Here you can see some info on backup that I’m getting and it’s power chart.
Thanks to Dell for delivering my order well before the estimated time. But there is an issue, the receipt which I received along with battery quotes a wrong price of the hardware (Huh! it should cost almost 50% less than the price quoted in the quotation received). I have asked for an explanation. Lets see what Dell has got to say with it.
4:39 Hrs, good, good.
DELL 85 WHr 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Primary Battery for Dell XPS M1210
I’m now going to play around with powertop to see if I can improve the backup performance. Linux is going green because of Intels LessWatt project. Powertop is one of the tool created under this project.
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