I had a similar problem with PE2950 (with SAS 6/I controller), RHEL 5.4 and OMSA 6.2 I got "no storage controller" error if I just do:
# yum install srvadmin-all If I do # yum install dell_ft_install The "no storage controller" error went away. See http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/ > The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-poweredge- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Watts > Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 8:13 PM > To: John Oliver > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PE2950, RHEL5.4 OMSA 6.2 - no go? > > On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 09:04 -0800, John Oliver wrote: > > I installed 6.2 on two 2950s running RHEL 5.4 Neither install worked... > > no storage controllers found, empty screens, etc. > > > > I called Enterprise Support about another issue, and they were surprised > > that I was still on 5.5, and tried to get me to upgrade. So, I'm > > guessing 6.X is *supposed* to work on the 29XX platform. > > > > On another system (possibly one that I had tried the 6.2 install on), I > > did a yum update... and got a couple of screens of errors. I didn't > > intend to "upgrade" from 5.5 to 6.2, but it looks like it wouldn't have > > worked anyway. > > > > I deleted the "latest" repo and re-added the 5.5 repo, but yum update > > wants to update dell-omsa-repository, which I'm assuming will "fix" yum > > to try to install the latest version again. > > > > If there is a way to get 6.2 to work correctly, great. If not, how do I > > get yum to forget about ever trying to upgrade OMSA again? > > Drop back to 6.1; there appear to be some packaging/dependency issues > that are affecting 6.2. I have it mostly working on a 1950 with the > addition of some extra packages - storage controllers are seen and the > web interface seems to work, but I'm not confident everything else does. > > From an earlier email I sent to the list: > > I've removed all srvadmin rpms, plus the additional ones I > installed, > rebooted then did: > > # yum -y install \ > srvadmin-all \ > srvadmin-storelib-sysfs \ > srvadmin-storelib-libpci > > Restarting now allows me to get output from "omreport storage > controller" > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS > Senior Systems Engineer, Managed Services Manpower > www.QinetiQ.com > QinetiQ - Delivering customer-focused solutions > GPG Key: http://www.linux-corner.info/mwatts.gpg _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
