> We've had a DRAC5 for a couple of years running without any problems. > It sounds like yours have some kind of hardware issue - were they all > purchased at the same time? Maybe you should try to get one replaced > to see if you still have the problem. > > You could try logging in to the DRAC as proper root[1] and run dmesg > or something in a loop to see if any interesting messages appear just before > the cards break.
Hello Adam, thanks a lot for your mail! sometimes i think it's a bad luck or some curse...servers were both in couple batches in the period of ~1 year. some of them are 1st gen of 1950, 2950, some are 3rd gen of 1950/2950. i know this method of gaining real root on dracs - it worked fine with 1.50 firmware, but it does not anymore with 1.5.1: $ racadm util mode -set vendor ERROR: Invalid subcommand specified. $ racadm util mode -isvendor ERROR: Invalid subcommand specified. $ su - if i think reasonably there can be following causes: * dracs are faulty in general [ but your opinion and folks at dell suggest it is not the case ] * there is something strange about my host operating systems [ but it happened on machines with esix 4, debian, windows 2008 - so not really ] * there is something strange about my operation env - but then again it happened to servers collocated in 2 datacenters and one office; connected to dell / hp / dlink switches; some with very simple network infrastructure, * my monitoring makes those cards misbehave - but i stopped any attempts to monitor the servers and yet after few months i disovered [when needed] that devicses were hang. i got on my private address few more diagnostics requests from dell - i will check what exactly bios reports on the server with hanged drac during reboot. i will also run diagnostic tools that try to communicate with the hanged drac from the host system. -- regards, Pawel Kudzia / .PaKud _______________________________________________ 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
